The Ṣėąŗçhėŗs (1956) 1/11

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[shutemdwn]

Finally, after 10 links of bullshit....

[soulierinvestments]

Probably the most electrifying first-ten-notes of a movie overture this side of "The Wizard of Oz." max Steiner's creativity in this film should be bottled and sold.

Anybody who wants to know what Fordian means in a movie should look at this one carefully. This is probably the most Fordian of John Ford's movies -- this and maybe Fort Apache, or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

1:28 > 1:50 Texas never looked so good when it was Utah and Arizona.

[gallantrycross]

The Order of St. Sava strongly resembles the order of St. Guadalupe (the Mexican medal) so maybe the St. Sava medal was the closest they could find.

[gallantrycross]

Good work LAGrant53. Yeah, looks like the Order of St. Sava with the gold 1883 date in the center altered to a fancy design. So if the medal was instituted in 1883 then how did John Wayne get it in 1868? Looks like the props dept. screwed up. And where is the medal now? It's a valuable museum piece. And notice how the blue and white cross of the medal matches Aunt Martha's costume? So maybe Natalie Wood is John Wayne's daughter.

[LAGrant53]

@gallantrycross

It's a ORDER OF ST. SAVA MEDAL, a Serbian award. Helen Keller got one. Don't recognize the sash. It's similar to the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE ORDER OF ST. STEPHAN but the colours are reversed.

[vawlkee51]

As a kid I'd see this on TV and liked it.

In 1980 I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen, what a difference!

One of Wayne's 2 best films. This and Red River!

I still remember Howard Hawks saying of Wayne in Red River: "My god, that big son of a bitch can really act!"

AMEN!

[gallantrycross]

I found a French Intervention medal on the Internet but it's red and doesn't look like Debbie's medal.

[gallantrycross]

The medal would be another "Ruby Slippers", since "The Searchers" was deemed the number one western. The medal could be worth $100,000 or somesuch. Lana Wood is still alive, living in Thousand Oaks, California. Maybe she knows what the medal is, and what happened to it.

[gallantrycross]

I read the screenplay, which says: "It is a gold medal or medallion--something appropriate to Maximilian of Mexico--suspended by a long multi-colored satin ribbon." Martha says "It's solid gold". Ethan says: "Just something I picked up in Mexico". However, just what medal it is, the screenplay doesn't say, and apparently the props department just used a pretty medal that Debbie would like.

[gallantrycross]

The medal resembles the Order of St. Stanislaus from Russia, or the Duchy of Braunschweig Heinrich Lion Knight's Cross First Class. The medal appears to be some sort of Knight's Cross from 1800's Europe. It's not French, British or Mexican, it's not the Order of St. Guadalupe of Mexico. It never says in the movie what the medal is.

[tidewaterboy1]

It strongly resembles the Johanniterorben medals. Maybe it says later in the movie.

[tidewaterboy1]

@gallantrycross I was wrong, definitely not British. Will check Prussian (German) next.