Townsend Harris is sent to Japan to establish diplomatic relations with the Tokugawa shogunate and falls for a young geisha.
Category Archives: John Wayne
Reap the Wild Wind
Two men vie for the heart of a female ship salvager along the coast of 1840s Florida.
ReWatch: Legend of the Lost
An American living in Libya is hired by a man to take him into the desert in search of treasure and his missing father but complications arise on their journey.
ReWatching The Cowboys: Leaving Childhood Behind
With all his cowhands experiencing gold fever, a ranch owner is forced to hire a bunch of young schoolboys to assist on his cattle drive.
Lady from Louisiana
In 1890s New Orleans the Louisiana State Lottery Company uses lottery funds to finance local hospitals but a company official is the secret head of a protection racket murdering winners, so a crusading young lawyer is sent in to expose the truth.
A Man Betrayed
A lawyer takes on big-city corruption when he sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook.
ReWatch: The Horse Soldiers
A fictionalized version of Grierson’s Raid in Mississippi.
Just Some Thoughts On…The Myth of John Wayne and Sacheen Littlefeather
My thoughts on the enduring story of the ’73 Academy Awards.
The Fighting Seabees
A fictionalized account of the issues that caused the forming of the U.S. Navy’s “Seabees” during World War II.
The Lucky Texan
After they find gold, a pair of friends must protect their claim.
