Ward Bond plays a hard-drinking director of Westerns and War films in “Wings Of Eagles”, 1957, and John Wayne his new screenwriter, fresh from the VA hospital.
Here’s the Duke in “Blake’s” office, flanked by Harry Carey and Ken Maynard.
Harry makes sense. Odd choice on Maynard, whose portrait appears twice in the office.
And don’t forget the joker.
The men who worked LA’s railway hub down the hill from Broadway and right up next to Spring Ave called the place “The Cornfields.” There’s little physical evidence of the place now (a cool park on it’s way to becoming an awesome park) but there is this fantastic pen-ultimate action climax of the 1942 Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake film “This Gun For Hire.”
----------Tim Kirk---------- 