{"id":41389,"date":"2026-03-29T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41389"},"modified":"2026-03-28T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:56:12","slug":"hondo1953-starring-john-wayne-geraldine-page-ward-bond-michael-pate-and-james-arness-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41389","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hondo&#8221;(1953) starring John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate and James Arness \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032926zview_hondo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hondo <\/strong><\/em>(1953)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>John Farrow, John Ford<\/strong> (uncredited, final scenes only)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>James Edward Grant; <\/strong>based on <em>The Gift of Cochise<\/em> by<strong> Louis L&#8217;Amour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes,Frank McGrath, Chuck Roberson <\/strong>and <strong>James Arness<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> First she was afraid he&#8217;d stay&#8212;then she was afraid he wouldn&#8217;t.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hondo Lane, a US Calvary dispatch rider, discovers a woman named Angie and her young son living alone on the frontier at the edge of Indian territory.\u00a0 The woman says her husband is due back any day.\u00a0 The truth is her husband has been gone for far too long.\u00a0 He may be dead or perhaps he just took off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because the Apache Vittorio is threatening war, Hondo offers to take Angie and her son to the nearest Calvary fort.\u00a0 Angie refuses.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t believe the Apache will go to war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hondo<\/em> was nominated for two 1954 <em>Academy Awards<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Actress in a Supporting Role<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Geraldine Page<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee <em>Best Writing, Motion Picture Story &#8211; <\/em><strong>Louis L&#8217;Amour<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Louis L&#8217;Amour won a nomination for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.\u00a0 Both L&#8217;Amour and the producer of Hondo questioned the honor.\u00a0 They pointed out that the Hondo screenplay was based on L&#8217;Amour&#8217;s short story.\u00a0 Therefore the nomination was withdrawn and only four films were list in this category on the final Oscar voting ballot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pal, the dog that played Sam, was the original screen Lassie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Wayne produced Hondo.\u00a0 Wayne wanted Glenn Ford to star.\u00a0 Ford didn&#8217;t care for director, John Farrow and turned down the opportunity.\u00a0 So Wayne decided to take on the role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Ford directed the battle scenes at the end of the movie. John Farrow had to leave due to another film commitment. Ford, uncredited, took over as a favor to John Wayne.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hondo<\/em> was originally released in 3D.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hondo<\/em> gets better with every viewing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hondo<\/em> (1953)<\/strong> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032926zview_hondo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hondo (1953) Director: John Farrow, John Ford (uncredited, final scenes only) Screenplay: James Edward Grant; based on The Gift of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41390,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41389\/revisions\/41390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}