Hondo
By: Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Wayne-Fellows production ; Batjac Productions ; screenplay by James Edward Grant ; produced by Robert Fellows, Wayne Fellows ; directed by John Farrow
Contributors: Page, Geraldine; Bond, Ward, 1903-1960; Arness, James, 1923-2011; Acosta, Rodolfo, 1920-1974; Aaker, Lee; Burks, Robert; Stout, Archie J., 1886-1973; Newman, Emil; Friedhofer, Hugo; L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Batjac Productions; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Edition: Special collector's ed.
Series: The John Wayne collection; John Wayne collection
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hollywood, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Drama; Women pioneers; Man-woman relationships; Frontier and pioneer life; Apache Indians
Description: Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order to protect her from a forced marriage with one of the Apaches, Hondo reluctantly goes along with the lie.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Based on the novel "The gift of Cochise," by Louis L'Amour.

Special features: Special introduction by Leonard Maltin; Commentary by Leonard Maltin, Western historian Frank Thompson and actor Lee Aaker; Featurette: The making of Hondo; Profile: James Edward Grant; From the Batjac vaults; The Apache.

Photography, Robert Burks, Archie Stout ; editor, Ralph Dawson ; music, Emil Newman, Hugo Friedhofer ; art director, Alfred Ybarra ; wardrobe, Carl Walker.

John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, mono.; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.