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12 ANGRY MEN

 

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[FAKE John Wayne Movies]

Does anyone happen to have any information or knowledge of these weird colorized "Lone Star Production" movies with John Wayne.  They're  B-Westerns from the early 1930s (quite possibly some of the Duke's earliest Westerns he's ever made), and they've been colorized, quite impressively.  They're on GRIT TV (cable network that plays only Western movies and TV shows) right now, and have been for the past couple of Friday nights, if anyone wants to see them.  The first time I had ever seen any of these, I could've sworn it was a movie from the 1940s or 1950s filmed in three-strip Technicolor, until I saw a very young John Wayne.  That's when I knew it was a colorized version of an early 1930s film.  Now, mind you, I'm not a fan of colorized films at all, but I was somewhat impressed with how natural and realistic the color looked, but that doesn't mean these versions of these movies are all that great.  It's quite impossible to sit and enjoy these films for what they are, or at least appear to be, because all of the music, sound effects, and, believe it or not, the voices are all recreated.  The voices are all dubbed by some amateur performers with little to no acting experience, and yes, even John Wayne's voice is remade.  It sounds sort of like him, but if they wanted a good impression of the Duke, they should've hired either Rich Little or John Byner to do the voice.  There's no credits as to who did the voices, music, or colorization, though.  With these colorized movies, you can't even enjoy them by turning off the color on your TV set, because all of the sounds are fake.   These "re-created" films are such a joke, it's all worth a laugh!

My question is, would anyone know when these colorized versions are from and why are all of the sounds remade?  I mean, it's not like the original audio tracks were lost for years, because I know I had seen at least one of these films before on TCM, that is with the original black and white picture and soundtrack. 

[Funny looking trees...]

Thanks for answering my questions about these odd trees.  I've just always wondered what kinds of trees these were when I've seen them in certain movies.

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Evans, Dale

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Carson, Jack

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Adams, Julie

[Change the Stars]

Either Ingrid Bergman or Ann Sheridan. 

I was almost thinking Lauren Bacall, but that would only be if she were in movies by that time.

 

Next: "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" - James Stewart

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Young, Robert

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Van Dyke, Jerry

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Stanwyck, Barbara

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I don't know if this counts -

Q. Bryan, Arthur - he was the twuewy owiginaw voice of Ewmer Fudd of the "Wooney Tunes" and "Mewwy Mewodies" cawtoons

[We all have our favorites!]

"SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS" - because this is truly Walt Disney's finest classic, what some people refer to as "Disney's Folly".  It's the first animated feature film ever made.

 

Next: Your favorite pin up actress

 

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O'Hara, Maureen

 

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Thigpen, Lynn (with Greg Lee)

"WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?"

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Rutherford, Ann

 

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Paige, Janis

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Nelson, Frank (with Jack Benny)

"EE-YEEEEEEEEEHSSSS?!"

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Lupino, Ida

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Johnson, Van

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Goddard, Paulette

 

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Mr. Ed - would he count? He was only fed peanut butter to create the illusion that he's speaking.

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Curtis, Tony

 

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Andrews, Dana

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Wyman, Jane

[Funny looking trees...]

The first tree looks an awful lot like a ginger root, like the kind you find with other produce in the grocery store.  Those cherry blossom trees sort of resemble dust mops, because they're so skinny, and have such floppy and saggy branches.  Those are some pretty good examples that sort of relate to what I'm referring to, but the trees I had in mind were very homely and rather "creepy" looking.  Sort of like lotus pods.  You know? Those solid brown seed pods full of holes that are used for autumn decorations.  The trees I was thinking of look more like large lumps with a mass of prickly twigs sticking out of the tops.  As I said before, the best place to spot them is in "THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX" during the horseback battle scene.  Since that is a Warner's film, there was another one that the studio produced in the mid 40s or so that probably reused the same set with those same trees.  I don't know the name of the film, but it was in black and white, took place in, I believe, Scotland (most of the action was set in a 19th century-style tavern), and starred a young Eleanor Parker.  It was once shown on TCM's "Saturday Matinee".  The film's probably only less than 60 minutes.  I know it also includes some mysterious man wearing some sort of mask over his face.  Nevertheless, those have got to be some of the most unusual trees I've ever seen.

 

By the way, when I was referring to the trees as "funny looking trees" it was a reference to Bugs Bunny in the "Looney Tunes" cartoon called "Lumber Jack-Rabbit".  It's the only "Looney Tunes" cartoon produced in 3-D (with the WB shield zooming RIGHT up to the screen even).  It's in the scene when Bugs walks through Paul Bunyan's garden and perceives some large stalks of asparagus as "funny looking trees".