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In Harm's Way is a 1965 American epic historical romantic war film produced and directed by Otto Preminger [2] and starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Patricia Neal, with a supporting cast featuring Henry Fonda in a lengthy cameo, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Brandon deWilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, and Franchot Tone. [3]
He has appeared in more than 30 films including The Beat Generation in 1959; The Victors in 1963; as a surfer named Eskimo in Ride the Wild Surf in 1964; In Harm's Way (1965) with John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Henry Fonda. [1]
Wayne in The Big Trail (1930) Wayne as "Singin' Sandy" in Riders of Destiny (1933) Betty Field and Wayne in The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Publicity still of Wayne and Nancy Olson for Big Jim McLain (1952) Wayne in The Comancheros (1961) With James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) On the set of In Harm's Way (1964)
John Wayne and Patricia Neal did not get along during filming. Nearly fourteen years later, however, they worked together on In Harm's Way (1965) where she noted that he had mellowed a lot, possibly because he was seriously ill with lung cancer at the time.
Otto Ludwig Preminger (/ ˈ p r ɛ m ɪ n dʒ ər / PREM-in-jər; [1] German: [ˈɔtoː ˈpreːmɪŋɐ] ⓘ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) [2] was an Austrian-American film and theatre director, film producer, and actor.
Harm's Way is a 1962 war novel by James Bassett. Set in the Pacific theater during World War II , it follows the exploits of Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey as he plans and carries out naval operations against the Japanese.
The John Wayne Cancer Foundation was founded in 1985 in honor of John Wayne, after his family granted the use of his name (and limited funding) for the continued fight against cancer. [184] The foundation's mission is to "bring courage, strength, and grit to the fight against cancer". [ 184 ]
Henry Fonda and John Wayne would team up again three years later to make In Harm's Way, a movie about the US Navy set after the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the stuntmen on the film was Robert Weinstein (1936–2019), a French Jew who narrowly avoided the death camps. In his seventies, he wrote his memoirs with the help of Stéphanie Krug.