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Dakota (1945)
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It was invariably a bad sign when Republic saddled John Wayne with a wife and obliged him to wear a city feller's coat. To make matters worse, in Dakota the uxorial appendage is Czech kewpie doll Vera Hruba Ralston (a wife offscreen, too--to studio boss Herbert J. Yates). Eloping with her from the Chicago mansion of her railroad-baron daddy, Wayne wants to head west for California. Ralston prefers the wheat lands of Dakota and, not for the last time, gets her way. With a slew of seasoned character actors (starting with Walter Brennan as a choleric riverboat captain), auspicious writing credits (Carl Foreman, Oscar-winner Howard...
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Set in the year 1871 - DAKOTA is a sprawling, surprisingly low-key Western featuring one of my least favorite Movie-Cowboys, JOHN WAYNE.
Professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandy Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, immigrant railroad tycoon. Sandy knows (through her father) that the railroad is soon to be extended into...
(complete Dakota review by CowboyJunkie)
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