Before Indiana Jones, John Wayne starred his treasure hunting movie

When Indiana Jones appeared for the first time in 1981 “Raides of the Lost Ark” (still the best Indiana Jones movie) He represented something completely new but it can be clearly recognized. At least, he was known to anyone who grew up in previous decades for his arrival. The creator in Indi George Lucas and the director of the first four films, Stephen Spielberg, did not hide an inspiration behind Henry Jones Junior from the adventure series in the thirties of the twentieth century, the 1940s and the 1950s, and the character’s view of the personality of Humphrey Bogart was influenced by the “Treasure of Ciera Madder”. But Harry Steel of Charlton Histon in 1954, “The Secret of Inca” is the most like Indiana Jones of that era, with the Fedora jacket and the great brown leather that provides a plan for the bold Harrison Ford archaeologists. Bougart and Histon was not the part of Indiana Jones. Lucas was inspired by many films he saw as a child, and although one of them was often ignored, John Wayne Adventure Outing was not a direct inspiration, but it contains everything that afflicts him classic.

Wayne may be known to embody the Western star and generally represent the model American hero (at least for a while the culture was generally conservative), but he also entered into the field of hunting treasure. In the mid -fifties of the twentieth century, the famous star directed a movie that would provide the perfect adventure to Dr. Jones himself, with the lost desert cities, treasure, and a female companion like the leading man.

By the mid -fifties of the last century, John Wayne was a firm star. After hacked with John Ford’s “Stagecoach” in 1939, Duke became a real American icon in the years, exceeding the movie star’s condition to embody almost accurate American values. This means that he brought a specific aura to his films that most of the other stars of his time could not match – even if many of this attraction had been shattered in the following decades (read the 1971 PlayBoy interview if you are not really). Even films in which the most obvious American model did not play, Win simply cleared the movie star – although it was not enough to save the “missing” myth of 1957.

The Adventure The Actor Play Joe January, an American in Timbuktu, which was recruited by Paul Bonnard from Rossano Brazzi to lead him on an exploratory trip. Bonard is looking for a lost city and hidden treasure in the desert desert, which he claims that his father discovered it years ago. The couple set out on their journey alongside Dita Sofia Lauren, a former sexual worker who initially became determined with Bonard. The crew ultimately discovers the skeleton of Bonard’s father alongside two others, indicating that the father Bonard killed his lover and his guide when he discovered them together in a bleak set of next things. Meanwhile, Davits’s evidence in January discovered by Bonard’s father, eventually the treasure is only for Bonard to start with wealth during the night after his rejection by Dita. Then she and Janier set out in search of their former, treacherous ally.

The film, Hathaway, who worked with Win in five other films, including “The Shepherd of the Hills” (1941) and “True Grit” (1969), which contains what I consider Wayne the best scene ever And what Oscar won only. But “Legend of the Lost” has become somewhat lost, at least compared to Hathaway and the other. Whether George Lucas was a young man who watched the movie and was affected by him when formulating his archaeological adventure tales is still unclear, but he will not be surprising.

George Lucas never cited the “myth of the missing” as a direct source of inspiration for Indiana Jones, but the parallels are there. The Desert Expendion, The Hidden TERASURE, the attention of love that finds itself in something that Willie Kate Kabchu of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death. Although John Wayne’s appearance in the film is not very similar to Dr. Jones like Harry Steel from Charlton Histon, he wears Fedora on his own and represents a similar hero.

Unfortunately, “Legend of the Lost” was not mentioned as one of the finest collaboration, where and Hathaway. Joe January was definitely no one Favorite Wayne roles And in the 1974 issue of “Take one” Hathaway magazine himself revealed that he was not even proud of the movie. The director talked about one of his biggest issues with the project: Rosano Barzi. “The main thing that made a mistake in the film – after the text – is the casting of Rosano Brazie,” he said. “He had no internal quality; everything was on the surface. He is one of these actors who wanted to like them desperately and as a result, he could not play evil.” However, as with many films that were rejected during the Golden Age in Hollywood, there is an undeniable magic of the film, and even if it does not directly affect Indy, it represents much of what made the character he is today.