The sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne, Dean Martin (1985)

The sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne, Dean Martin (1985)

Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

William H. Wright (screenplay)

	John Wayne	...	John Elder
	Dean Martin	...	Tom Elder
	Martha Hyer	...	Mary Gordon
	Michael Anderson Jr.	...	Bud Elder
	Earl Holliman	...	Matt Elder

July 2010

The man who shot LibThe man who shot Liberty Valence

The man who shot Liberty Valence with John Wayne, James Stewart and Lee Marvin (1962) B/W

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Director:

John Ford

Writers:

James Warner Bellah (screenplay),

	John Wayne	...	Tom Doniphon
	James Stewart	...	Ransom Stoddard
	Vera Miles	...	Hallie Stoddard
	Lee Marvin	...	Liberty Valance
	Edmond O'Brien	...	Dutton Peabody

 July 2010

McLintock 1963

Wayne and O'Hara at their best.

George Washington McLintock, "GW" to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also surprised to see that his wife Katherine has also returned. She had left him some years before without really explaining what he done but she does make the point of saying that she's returned to take their daughter back to the State Capitol with her. GW is highly respected by everyone around him including the farmers who are pouring into the territories with free grants of land and the Indians who are under thereat of being relocated to another reservation. Between his wife, his headstrong daughter, the crooked land agent and the thieving government Indian agent, GW tries to keep the peace and do what is best for everyone.

	John Wayne	...	George Washington McLintock
	Maureen O'Hara	...	Katherine Gilhooley McLintock
	Patrick Wayne	...	Devlin Warren
	Stefanie Powers	...	Becky McLintock

Hondo 1953

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Director:

John Farrow

Writers:

Louis L'Amour (short story "The Gift of Cochise"), James Edward Grant (screenplay)

	John Wayne	...	Hondo Lane
	Geraldine Page	...	Angie Lowe
	Ward Bond	...	Buffalo Baker
	Michael Pate	...	Vittorio - Chiricahua Apache Chief

Death Watch by Jim Kelly

Death Watch by Jim Kelly - set in Kings Lynn with Many references to Hunstanton and other places along the coast.

(The second book in the DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine series)


5 September 1992 - Fifteen-year-old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home never to be seen again. 5 September 2010Exactly eighteen years later, Bryan Judd, Norma Jean?s twin, is pulled from the searing heat of a hospital incinerator. When his charred remains are examined, the murder squad confirms that his death was no accident. Could it somehow be linked to his sister?s disappearance? For DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine, the case proves their most intriguing yet. As they begin their investigation into Bryan?s life, they uncover a secret world of criminal activity in Bryan's neighbourhood and at the hospital where he died. Can Shaw and Valentine solve Bryan?s murder before any more lives are violently snatched away? And will they ever learn the truth about what happened to Norma Jean?

September 2010

Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie

Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie, a Hercule Poirot book, this was superb Agatha Christie at her best.

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room! A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by 'spirits' that Mrs Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him!

August 2010

Cat among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

Cat among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

In a palace in Ramat a prince entrusts a packet of jewels to his pilot, in the hope that he can smuggle them to England. But before the packet reaches its destination the prince and the pilot are both dead.  Then a frightened girl brings Hercule Poirot one of the most challenging cases of his long and brilliant career.  A killer is terrorizing a famous school for girls; an unsuspecting student has become a magnet for evil and death. Somehow the two cases are linked and only Poirot can solve this double mystery.
In this book Christie introduced Mr Robinson.   A member of a financial syndicate called The Arrangers, he also appears in Postern of Fate and Passenger to Frankfurt.

August 2010