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The Colter Craven Story is the November 23, 1960 black-and-white episode of the American television western series, ''Wagon Train'', which had an eight-season run from 1957 to 1965.〔(Photographs, illustrations and other images associated with "The Colter Craven Story" )〕 Presented as the 9th installment of the hour-long program's 4th season, it is the third of four television series episodes directed by filmmaker John Ford, the only four-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Director.〔(Levy, Bill. ''John Ford: A Bio-bibliography'', pages 202-203 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998) )〕 Cast with a collection of actors who repeatedly appeared in Ford's films and were known as the John Ford Stock Company, "The Colter Craven Story" was done as a favor to ''Wagon Train'' star Ward Bond, who played supporting roles in 24 Ford films (and in one TV episode, "Rookie of the Year").〔(John Ford "taking the assignment as a favor to series star and old pal Ward Bond…" (''Wildest Westerns'', 2015) )〕 Filmed in September 1960, it was broadcast 18 days after Bond's sudden death from a heart attack on November 5.〔("Tonight's ''Wagon Train'' directed by John Ford" (''Eugene Register-Guard'', November 23, 1960, page 6) )〕 ==Production notes== Ford's previous TV episode, "Rookie of the Year", a December 1955 half-hour installment of the 1955–56 anthology series ''Screen Directors Playhouse'', represents John Wayne's sole starring acting role on television, but Wayne made cameo appearances in "The Colter Craven Story" (as one of the key Union Army generals in the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman) and, two years later, in Ford's final TV episode, "Flashing Spikes", an October 1962 hour-long entry from another anthology, ''Alcoa Premiere'', which aired from 1961 to 1963. The final name listed in the acting credits of both episodes is "Michael Morris", a variation upon Marion Michael Morrison, which is the most frequently indicated form of Wayne's birth name.〔(Rich, Michael. "The Colter Craven Story" at ''Fifties Web'' )〕 The central plotline of "Rookie of the Year" concerns a baseball player (portrayed by Ward Bond) who, decades earlier, was accused of throwing a game, which is also the key theme in "Flashing Spikes", in which the disgraced middle-aged former player is portrayed by James Stewart, with Wayne playing a cigar-chewing Marine sergeant umpiring a soldiers' baseball game on the sidelines of the Korean War, whose recognizable voice and figure, rather than his face (partially obscured by a baseball cap), provides the instant identification. The honorable sports reporter played by Wayne in "Rookie of the Year" decides against exposing Bond as the father of a talented young "rookie" player portrayed by Wayne's 16-year-old actor son, Pat Wayne who, seven years later (listed by his most frequent billing, Patrick Wayne), again portrays a similarly-positioned young player in "Flashing Spikes", where the snide, baseball-hating opportunist columnist at the opposite end of morality from John Wayne's character in "Rookie of the Year", is portrayed by "Colter Craven" himself, Carleton Young who, between 1958 and 1964, appeared in 5 John Ford films (''The Last Hurrah'', ''The Horse Soldiers'', ''Sergeant Rutledge'', ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' and ''Cheyenne Autumn'').〔(Turnour, Quentin. "Flashing Spikes" (''Senses of Cinema: Cinemateque Annotations on Film'', Issue 31, April 2004) )〕 All three TV episodes also feature another member of the Stock Company, Willis Bouchey, who was in 9 Ford theatrical features between 1955 and 1964. In early 1962, about a year-and-a-half after directing "The Colter Craven Story", John Ford recreated a longer version of the General Grant–General Sherman scene for "The Civil War", the third of five segments comprising the Metrocolor Cinerama epic, ''How the West Was Won'' (three of the film's other sequences were directed by Henry Hathaway and one by George Marshall). The film, which held its initial public exhibition in Britain on November 1, 1962 (the US premiere was in February 1963), presented the scene in Cinerama's ultra-wide-screen perspective, but Ford still staged it in its 1960 television form, with extended dialogue content between Grant (in "The Colter Craven Story" by Paul Birch, who had previously portrayed both Ulysses S. Grant and his Confederate counterpart Robert E. Lee in episodes of other TV series, and in ''How the West Was Won'' by Henry (Harry) Morgan ) and Sherman (John Wayne), whose face is partially hidden in shadows throughout the conversation, in the same manner as it was in the TV episode.〔(McBride, Joseph Wilmington, Michael. ''John Ford'', pages 193-196 (Da Capo Press, 1975) )〕 Wayne, whose scene with Morgan lasts just under four minutes, receives 12th billing among the 13 alphabetically-billed top-tier stars of ''How the West Was Won'' and is again recognized more through his posture and distinctive vocal delivery, than by the indistinct sight of his face, mirroring his "Michael Morris" one-line performance as Sherman in "The Colter Craven Story".〔(Arnold, Jeff. "The Colter Craven Story – episode of Wagon Train (NBC TV, series 4, 1960)" (''Jeff Arnold's West'', May 23, 2013) )〕 Although the film is occasionally listed as the sixth Carleton Young big screen performance under Ford's direction, Young's brief unbilled appearance (as a poker player with Gregory Peck) is in the second segment, "The Plains", directed by Henry Hathaway. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Colter Craven Story」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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