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Friday, January 28, 2022
HINDU
HONDO (1953)
dirs: John Farrow, John Ford
HINDU
Panic #4, August/September 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Wallace Wood
This was a 3-D Western. It begins with Angie Lowe(Geraldine Page) and her son Johnny (Lee Aker) on their ranch waiting for her husband to come back home. Hondo Lane (John Wayne) and his dog Sam come up. He explains he's from the cavalry and fell off his horse fighting Indians. He is part Apache himself.
References are made to another Western called Shane that has a similar setting and ends with the father leaving home with the hopes that he'll come back.
Hondo claims that because he has Apache blood, he has a strong sense of smell and can therefore smell Angie. He lets Johnny to pet his dog knowing the dog will bite him, but he knows this will teach him a lesson in becoming a man. The sequence teaching Johnny to swim happens like this, but isn't until later in the movie.
They leave out how during Hondo's stay, Angie discovers he's a famous gunman and initially doesn't trust him, but comes to learn he's a gentleman.
After Hondo leaves, the Apaches invade the property and Johnny tries to save his mother but is too small for the gun and falls down recoiling. The head of the tribe admires his bravery and makes him an honorary Apache.
The Indian on the nickel was replaced with Thomas Jefferson around this time.
Much later, Hondo has returned to the cavalry on a new horse, which was Angie's. A stranger (Leo Gordon) claims the horse is his and gets in a fight with Hondo and gets beaten (not shot like here) and killed. Hondo realizes the man he just killed was Angie's missing husband, and returns to her ranch.
He runs into Gene Autry as the Lone Ranger (?) and is informed by Bob Hope (Son of Paleface reference?) he's in the wrong movie.
Hondo's sidekick Buffalo (Ward Bond) finds a photo of Johnny on the dead man, confirming it was Angie's husband. On his way back, he is attacked by Indians. The film had an intermission even though it was only an hour and a half. Maybe people couldn't handle wearing 3-D glasses that long.
Hondo returns and Angie says he is in fact her husband so the Apaches will spare him. This is where he teaches Johnny to swim. He also teaches Johnny to fish.
Getting the news there's no need for a cavalry outpost there, Hondo and the Lowes go to his ranch to start a new family. "Somebody's gotta work..." was how they ended every story in that particular issue of Panic.
HAMBO
Crazy #7, July 1954
w: Stan Lee
a: Carl Hubbell
In the Panic parody, that's not Bob Hope, though it does look like him. It's Barry Fitzgerald, and it's a callback to the previous issue, where they parodied The Quiet Man, another John Wayne movie.
In the Panic parody, that's not Bob Hope, though it does look like him. It's Barry Fitzgerald, and it's a callback to the previous issue, where they parodied The Quiet Man, another John Wayne movie.
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