Patricia Neal: Operation Pacific
Playful and plausible, John Wayne and The Fountainhead actress Patricia Neal’s on-screen chemistry in Operation Pacific is instant from the start. The intriguing story of the former husband and wife caught in a love triangle, mixed with the dangers of war, leads to a dramatic but believable execution that left the audience lost in the characters rather than the actors portraying them. John Wayne and Patricia Neal paired up again for In Harm’s Way in 1965.
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Henry’s first book, The Greatest Westerns Ever Made, and the People Who Made Them, was published by TwoDot in 2024. The Brooklyn-born, L.A.-based writer has contributed articles to the INSP blog since 2016, been Film Editor for True West since 2015, and has written Henry’s Western Round-up, the online report on Western film production, since 2010. His screenwriting credits include Speedtrap (1977) and Double Cross (1994). He’s the first writer welcomed into the Western Writers of America for his work in electronic media. He’s done audio commentary on over thirty Spaghetti and domestic Westerns.
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