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Synopsis: This is typical Wayne, but that's what makes Hondo a movie well worth watching. Good writing and fine acting, again proving how so under rated Wayne was his entire career. Take the time and watch Hondo, it most definitely will be time we'll spent. As for prejudicial moments, remember, this was 1953 and that's just as it was. Wayne is Wayne, and the Apaches were the white man's idea of Apaches. God bless good ole Sam!
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): John Farrow
Production: Batjac Productions Inc.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG
Year:
1953
83 min
1,368 Views


called a war council.

A full report of it is in that dispatch

Im carrying.

But you don't know, we've always

gotten along splendidly with the Apache.

They drink and bring their horses

to our spring

on their way north to the buffalo hunt.

Ive never seen the great Vittorio, but

there've been plenty of Apaches here.

Ive seen the great Vittorio,

before the treaty.

His horse had 40 scalps

hung in its mane.

That was before the treaty.

We broke that treaty, us Whites.

There's no word

in the Apache language for lie,

and they've been lied to.

lf they rise, there won't be

- a White left in the territory.

- They won't bother me.

Us, l mean.

We always got along very well.

People l know, man and his wife,

got along real well for

20 years. Then one day,

she upped and blew a hole in him,

big enough to drive

a stagecoach through.

She got mad. The Apaches are mad.

Well, l have nothing to worry about,

Im sure.

Nice to be sure.

Get out of the way.

- Strange dog you have.

- l don't have him.

- The two of you are together.

- He stays with me.

- He can smell an Indian at a half a mile.

- He smells Indians? L don't believe it.

Sure, lots of dogs smell Indians.

You can teach them.

Teach them? How?

First you get yourself a puppy and then,

you hire yourself a tame Indian

and cut a willow switch.

Then you get the Indian

to beat the puppy

with a willow switch four or five times

a day.

And when he grows up, he'll always

signal when he smells an Indian.

Beat a puppy. How cruel.

That's the way they do it.

Anyway, l don't believe

a dog can smell Indians.

l mean, as different from anyone else.

- You or me, for instance.

- Well, they can.

As a matter of fact,

Indians can smell White people.

- l don't believe it.

- Well, it's true.

Im part Indian, and l can smell you

when Im downwind of you.

- That's impossible.

- No, it isn't impossible, Mrs. Lowe.

You baked today.

l can smell fresh bread on you.

Sometime today

you cooked with salt pork.

Smell that on you, too.

You smell all over like soap.

You took a bath. And on top of that,

you smell all over like a woman.

l could find you in the dark, Mrs. Lowe,

and Im only part Indian.

Mrs. Lowe.

What do you want?

- l watered and grained the stock.

- Thank you.

Ill bed down near here

someplace tonight.

Mr. Lane?

You can't sleep outside,

there's a storm coming.

Ive fixed a pallet for you in the corner.

It would be uncivilized

to let anyone sleep outside,

and after all, we are civilized, aren't we?

Speaking for you, of course. But me?

l guess you could call me civilized.

That's your bed.

Im sorry it has to be on the floor.

l have to set the batter for the morning.

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James Edward Grant

James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 – February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer and screenwriter who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971. He collaborated with John Wayne on twelve projects, starting with Angel and the Badman (which he also directed) in 1947 through Circus World in 1964. Support Your Local Gunfighter was released in 1971, five years after his death. more…

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