One of our favorite Duke Wayne/Howard Hawks flicks is the 1967 western "El Dorado", which memorably teamed Wayne with Robert Mitchum and up-and-comer James Caan. Here's the original cut of the trailer, which was created using a temp track for music, as Nelson Riddle's score obviously had not been completed yet. 

Thanks to eagle-eyed Cinema Retro reader Ted Marsowicz for alerting to this video of vintage footage from the world premiere of "Dirty Harry" that took place at the Loews Theatre in San Francisco on December 22, 1971. The controversial film drew a large number of enthused Clint Eastwood fans along with some protesters who were less-than-enamored of the San Francisco Police Department. 

Sir Alec Guinness receives an honorary Oscar for his distinguished career in 1980. Presenting the award is a somewhat nervous Dustin Hoffman (who can blame him?) Not surprisingly, Guinness is the epitome of class and grace. 

When Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" was released in 1970 it was a critical and boxoffice sensation. Audiences immediately recognized that, although the film was set in the Korean War, it was very obviously an analogy to the current controversial conflict in Vietnam. The film thrust Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould into the top tier of leading actors and the movie spawned the classic TV series that was a phenomenon in its own right.  The film's success, along with the simultaneous triumph of the more traditional war film "Patton", helped stem the red ink that was plaguing 20th Century Fox and played a key role in making the studio solvent once again.

Duke Wayne sure didn't need any pointers when it came to throwing a punch, but even he wouldn't stand up to director John Ford. The behind the scenes photo is from one of Ford's most underrated films, his Civil War adventure "The Horse Soldiers" (1959). Co-star Constance Towers wisely keeps out of the way. 

Writing on the Literary Hub web site, Adam Scovell presents a fascinating look at how Henry James's classic 1898 novella "The Turn of the Screw" came to inspire numerous film and television adaptations that continue to the present day. Understandably, Scovell devotes a good deal of background information on director Jack Clayton's brilliant and unsettling 1961 feature film version, which is titled "The Innocents" and starred Deborah Kerr in an Oscar-worthy performance. (Don't be put off by the over-the-top aspects of the trailer, which emulated a William Castle "B" schlock horror flick.)  Click here to read.

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Here is a rare 1969 documentary created by legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Zanuck, of course, was the driving force behind Fox's 1962 epic blockbuster "The Longest Day", which had been a dream project for Zanuck. In this documentary, which is derived from a French print, Zanuck returns to the beaches with a film crew to discuss the monumental battle in which Allied forces from the U.S., Great Britain and Canada, along with Free French troops, defied formidable weather and heavy German resistance to breach Hitler's "Fortress Europe" and ultimately free the continent. The result, of course, was the beginning of the end of the Nazi regime and the eventual emergence of Germany as a free nation and thriving democracy. The documentary contains many clips from "The Longest Day".  (Thanks to Cinema Retro reader Ted Marsowicz for alerting us to this video.)