Westerns director Andrew McLaglen dies aged 94

BBC ^ | 9/3/2014

[yarddog]

I think Victor was world class boxer.

[yarddog]

Yes, Shirley Temple singing “Auld Lang Syne” at Sgt. McDuff’s funeral was one of the very few times my eyes misted up while watching a movie.

[mware]

He was most definitely a manly man.

[DFG]

McLintock full movie is on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9wNbD7wJrQ

[Paine in the Neck]

Son of Irish born actor Victor McLaghlen.

Victor was born in Kent, England. He spent his childhood in South Africa. Made a wonderful career of playing Irish characters, though.

[SevenofNine]

How about GETTV they been showing a lot of Western

http://www.get.tv

especially Saturday afternoon around 12 noon est

[SevenofNine]

Actually TCM show some of silent movie I didn’t realize until year later ole Victor was Lon Chaney Sr silent version of The Unholy three and John Gilbert movie

[SevenofNine]

Don’t worry it come to your area

Grit tv just came on the air I got “grandfather” in on day it premire on Univsion channel 46.4 here in SO CAL

[SevenofNine]

They were showing a lot of ole John Wayne movies including the Spoilers with Randy Scott and Marlene Dietrich

I hear they score the right to all of western and action films from Parmount Warner bros MGM and other studios they really go into the vaults get those films

[Bender2]

When they were filming Hellfighters in the Houston area back in 1967 I got to watch them shoot the scenes where they put out a fire near a bayou and John Wayne's character get his chest crushed by a bulldozer. I didn't get to meet the Duke or any of the actors but I was introduced to "Andy" McLaglen as John Wayne called him on the set.

And about 10 years later I was up for a small part in Don Meredith's "Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free" TV movie that McLaglen directed. Didn't get the part and didn't get to meet him again.

Always enjoyed anything he directed. My personal favorite ones were: The Devil's Brigade, Hellfighters, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves and The Shadow Riders

[SevenofNine]

WOW that good story Bender

Did you know his daddy Victor

I hear he was something on movie sets

There is story that TCM did interview one of the actor of the Quiet Man both Victor, John Wayne John Ford shut down Irish pub they ran out of booze

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Harold Shea]

Another great fight scene was Ward Bond and

John Wayne,but can’t remember the name of the western.

[Finny]

...the Spoilers with Randy Scott and Marlene Dietrich

What a great movie! Just added it to our collection.

[yarddog]

“The Searchers” had John Wayne and Ward Bond both in it. Bond played a preacher and ranger. He and Wayne were friends but disagreed.

I don’t recall them fighting but they probably did.

[Bender2]

Victor McLaglen died in 1959 when I was 13-years old but we lived in Natchez, Mississippi, the year before, my father managing the construction of the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi south of Vidalia, Louisiana. The filming of the John Wayne - William Holden Civil War film, The Horse Soldiers, in and around Natchez was taking place. That was the first time I got to see John Wayne in person when my Mother took me out to watch them do some filming.

My Mother was much more interested in seeing Bill Holden. She had a teenage crush on him from her younger days... and it was still there. Mom was 31 then and still quiet a dish.

Many, many years later I auditioned for a part in Blake Edwards Wild Rivers that starred Holden. My Mother was really rooting for me to get the part so I could tell her stories of what Bill Holden was really like in person--

As I have reminisced before on FR, that was when Julie Andrews told me I was not ugly enough to play the son of Karl Malden's character.

Sad to say William Holden next film, S.O.B. was his last before his tragic, senseless death in 1981.

As to Victor McLaglen, never got to meet him yet I later was told that he was originally supposed to play Sergeant Major Kirby in The Horse Soldiers film but had to decline due to poor health. Judson Pratt ended up with the Kirby role.

[greene66]

Wasn’t that (Hellfighters) shot somewhere around Baytown or LaPorte? I had kin in the vicinity, who’d always get a big kick out of nostalgically reminiscing when Wayne and crew came around to film those scenes. Just seemed to bring up a lot of warm memories with them, bringing up the topic.

As for “Horse Soldiers,” I was always looking around for that area sort of between Natchitoches and Cloutierville where some scenes were supposedly shot. Met some locals who tried telling me, but I was invariably confused around those river roads.

[Bender2]

As best I recall from near 50 years ago, I want to say the Hellfighter scenes were filmed south of the San Jacinto Monument and Battleship Texas but not in La Porte proper. The set was off a crushed shell road and looking at a Google map, my best quesstimate would be in the area of Upper San Jacinto Bay but I could be wrong

As to The Horse Soldiers all I recall is the shooting at the Oakland Plantation [called Greenbriar in the film], Natchitoches, Louisiana and the wooded areas nearby [about an hour or so's drive west of Natchez) and Jefferson Military College [had to look the name up] just northeast of Natchez. I am sure they shot at other locations in and around Natchez but those are the only ones I remember the location.

Now, if you want to know about the location shooting on 1973's Don't Look in the Basement, I can take you by the hand there. It was shot at the old Westminster College in Tehuacana, Texas. My ex-father-in-law owned the property at the time but I was off in La-La Land while that film was shot working on my Moviestar status.

Hate to admit it, but both the low-budget horror flick and my Moviestar status didn't fly far enough--

[the scotsman]

I didn’t think many Americans knew of this classic film. In the UK, its a hugely popular and iconic film.

[the scotsman]

American freepers will focus more on his Wayne films, I prefer to focus on The Wild Geese.

One of my favourite films, I love it to death.

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNef4MC4ldo

Music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_AreVjnc4