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Andrew McLaglen, RIP
There’s a nice long video interview with him here, recalling his career. 8 Replies to “Andrew McLaglen, RIP”Commenting at Satellite News
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thank you for giving us MITCHELL…for that we are grateful. RIP.
How very sad. Andrew V. McLaglen is a name that looms large for anyone who knows westerns, and John Wayne’s films in particular. McLaglen was one of the last of Wayne’s “old guard”: his father was the veteran character actor Victor McLaglen, who worked with Wayne on several of John Ford’s films. After starting as an assistant director on several of Wayne’s pictures in the 1950s, McLaglen became a director in his own right with “Man in the Vault”, an interesting little movie that was produced by Wayne’s production company. McLaglen went on to direct several of Wayne’s latter-day films of the 1960s and 1970s, along with hundreds of hours of TV westerns, most notably 96 episodes of “Gunsmoke” and 116 episodes of “Have Gun, Will Travel” (he holds the record for directing the largest number of episodes of both series). Other pictures of his that I like are “The Shadow Riders” (a Louis L’Amour story with Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, and McLaglen’s old friend Ben Johnson) and the Civil War miniseries “The Blue and the Gray”.
Did he ever say anything about MST3K?
I don’t happen to know if he ever commented on MST3K, but I believe that other readers have gotten their “Mitchell” posters and discs signed by him, so it seems that the MST3K treatment of that film didn’t bother him.
There are two other (very indirect) MST3K connections to McLaglen that occur to me. He directed a 1970 John Wayne western called “Chisum”, which was briefly referenced at the end of #703: Mike sings “Chisum … John Chisum …”, which is from the theme song from the movie, because the shot of Deathstalker riding up a hillside into the sunset was very reminiscent of the closing shot from “Chisum”. Two of McLaglen’s children, Josh and Mary (who is also the interviewer in the video linked above), had small roles in that film. McLaglen also directed “The Wild Geese” in 1978, which viewers of Rifftrax’s “The Star Wars Holiday Special” will remember because they riffed a TV ad for the movie (Mike called it “the prequel to ‘The Wild Geese Holiday Special'”).
Wow, 94. A life well lived.
RIP, Mr. McLagen.
And I have to say it, mah mah MITCHELL!!!
Mitchell is the only movie of his that I’ve seen.
the wild geese is a very good film by the way. wish rifftrax would riff it someday along with this film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093983
with 3 mst3k people to boot.
would also like to know what he was thinking when he gave joe don baker and linda evans the baby oil.