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22 February 1957 (USA)
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A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead. | add synopsis
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | John Wayne | ... | Frank W. 'Spig' Wead |
 | Dan Dailey | ... | 'Jughead' Carson |
 | Maureen O'Hara | ... | Min Wead |
| Ward Bond | ... | John Dodge |
| Ken Curtis | ... | John Dale Price |
| Edmund Lowe | ... | Adm. Moffett |
| Kenneth Tobey | ... | Capt. Herbert Allen Hazard |
| James Todd | ... | Jack Travis |
| Barry Kelley | ... | Capt. Jock Clark |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Manager |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Capt. Spear |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Barton |
| Dorothy Jordan | ... | Rose Brentmann |
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110 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Mono (Westrex Recording System) |
Perspecta Stereo
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Argentina:Atp |
West Germany:12 (nf) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Finland:K-12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:13 |
USA:Approved (PCA #18317) |
Sweden:15
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After John Dodge (the fictional version of John Ford) gives Spig a job writing for his studio, he is lead out to his new office to begin work and passes in front of numerous actor's head shots. Wayne pauses for a beat in front of one of his earliest head shots before continuing.
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Anachronisms: When Frank "Spig" Wead is taking command of the aircraft carrier during WWII the car that drives up to the docked carrier is a 1950 or '51 Chevrolet or Pontiac yet the scene is supposed to be during the war, which ended in 1945.
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Frank W. 'Spig' Wead:
[while trying to regain nerve control of his toes in the hospital] I'm gonna move that toe!
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Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
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Soundtrack:
Song of the Islands
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I just caught this on TCM. It's a stretch in acting for Wayne, I think. He rarely did characters with flaws, either physical or mental.But he does a great job.
Did anyone catch a wonderful comment made by Wayne while he and the naval staff were watching films of the carriers being bombed? Wayne is commenting that the solution to the Navy's problem is obvious, but it is eluding him. There is some banter about how to get your thinking going when it's at a standstill. That is, how to get into action when things seem unworkable. Wayne comments, "In Hollywood we'd stop and look around and here's the 7th cavalry coming." All things considered, I thought it a great comment!