" since " the direction was entrusted to a relative newcomer, Victor McLaglen's television-trained son, Andrew V. McLaglen ... good intentions, when the task at hand is as difficult as lusty farce, are not enough.

He was also the father of Victor McLaglen's grandchildren, Mary and Josh.

Despite John Wayne's opposition to the film, the use of the Irish folk tune The Rakes of Mallow as background music during the riot scenes was something of an homage to his film The Quiet Man, in which the same tune was used during the protracted fistfight between Wayne's character and Victor McLaglen's.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

Although Ayckbourn continued to move where his career took him, he settled in Scarborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by Stephen Joseph.

Radim chose a clerical career as did Adalbert, and took the name Gaudentius.

Holly was based in Lubbock as his career took off between 1956 and 1958.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

In 1839 she took up the first of many positions as governess to families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841.

After teaching briefly in a Berlin girls ' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career.

This Annie took, becoming a professor's wife-only to have a woman scholar destroy her husband's career, drive him to suicide, and thus push Annie herself back down to the status of a servant.

His father had planned a traditional career for Galen in philosophy or politics and took care to expose him to literary and philosophical influences.

While this new career took him away from the practice of law, it was rewarding in other ways: the fees were said to yield up to $ 40, 000 ( US $ in present terms ) over the two-year term.

The elegant Soviet jumper radically sped up his approach run, took the record up to, and won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, before a motorcycle accident ended his career.

In the one-day series Cronje managed just one fifty but with the ball he was economical and took his career best figures of 5 / 32, becoming the second South African to take five wickets in an ODI.

In the first 5 years of Botham's Test career, when not playing as captain, he scored 2557 runs at an average of 49. 17 including 11 centuries and a highest score of 208, took 196 wickets at an average of 21. 28 including nineteen 5 wicket hauls and held 50 catches.

Maynard Smith then took a change of career, entering University College London ( UCL ) to study fruit fly genetics under Haldane.

However, Keats's training took up increasing amounts of his writing time, and he was increasingly ambivalent about his medical career.

His theatre career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge in an Off-Broadway revival.

Beyond The Sea was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring duties in the biography / musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress Sandra Dee.

Riefenstahl took dancing lessons and attended dance academies from an early age and began her career as a self-styled and well-known interpretive dancer, traveling around Europe and working with director Max Reinhardt in a show funded by Jewish producer Harry Sokal.

Women who had the option of a career instead of marriage labeled themselves New Women, and took their new opportunities very seriously.

In the later stages of the band's career, Page took a back seat in composition and Jones became increasingly important in producing music, often composed on the keyboard.

It took his career some time to recover from this blow and in contrast to his earlier major roles, he for some years had only occasional small parts.

He began his cricketing career as a medium pace bowler but on the advice of his school coach, Sunil Fernando, he took up off-spin when he was fourteen years old.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

Forrest used the element of surprise to rout the Union troops, and thus began the military career of one of the South's most formidable leaders.

His surprise defeat at the hand of Joseph Noseworthy of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ended his political career, and may also have been a factor in the Conservative Party's decision to move to the left and rebrand itself the Progressive Conservative Party under Meighen's replacement.

Later in his career, to the surprise of many, he turned to movie making.

In 2007, during a CBS prime-time special commemorating Barker's career, the entire, unedited fight scene from Happy Gilmore was played during the show, and afterward, Adam Sandler made a surprise appearance to thank Barker and read a poem in his honor.

At this point, David Sainsbury, who had wanted to step down at the end of 1997, made a surprise announcement of his retirement as Chairman to pursue his long-held ambition to have a career in politics, after " 32 enjoyable and fulfilling years " working for Sainsbury's.

Gekas got another rude surprise when Holden visited African American neighborhoods such as Uptown and Allison Hill after finding out that Gekas had never set foot in these neighborhoods in his congressional career.

Favreau began his television career as a regular on La Boîte à surprise, a long running children's television show on Radio-Canada.

But he seemed to have an innate ability to read how far he could push the envelope and indeed he was never reported during his career, a fact that would surprise most who saw him play.

In addition to musical performances from Garland and the week's guest stars, the series ' initial format included the recurring segments " Born in a Trunk " ( the name taken from a number in A Star is Born ) in which Garland would tell stories of her show business career and sing a related song, and " Tea for Two " which would feature her chatting with a surprise guest.

In a surprise career move, despite their strong position and likelihood of promotion, Wise left Leeds in January 2008 to join the newly reshaped management team at Newcastle United in an executive role, tasked with travelling around Europe and further afield identifying young players and developing the academy.

In the surprise career move, Wise had been attributed as having lost interest in direct football management since the loss of his assistant Gustavo Poyet to Tottenham Hotspur, and considered the executive position at Newcastle an opportunity " he had to take ".

The main challenge of his career was the strange conspiracy of the republican general Claude François de Malet ( October 1812 ); Malet, spreading false news that Napoleon had died in the Russian campaign, managed to surprise and capture some of the ministers and other authorities in Paris, among them Pasquier.

To their surprise, the song became their first Top 40 hit on both the pop and R & B charts, and for a time established the group's reputation for producing fast-paced songs during their earlier career.

During this spell came the pinnacle of Fyssas's career: Greece's surprise victory at the 2004 European Championships.

His career seemed over but he got a surprise recall for the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy in England.

A surprise pole position went to Teo Fabi, the first of his career.

This result, which would be the only knockout loss in Maxim's career, was a surprise to Ring Magazine writers and many boxing fans.

With an increasingly successful music career, a supermodel wife and a young son, Lee's death was a surprise to the public and sparked a massive reaction in tributes to the drummer.

As he begins to resurrect his stalled writing career, he gets a surprise visit from Kitty.

Near the end of the inter-war period about a year before the Cylon surprise attack and subsequent nuclear holocaust, the Admiralty of the Colonial Fleet sent a scouting mission into Cylon territory which resulted in the capture of the scout pilot ( and the effective ending of William Adama's military career ).

In March, 2010 Drake performed his first live performance of his career, he was booked last minute as a surprise to the students, as the event was sold out.

In a surprise to many political observers in the U. S., in 2002 Chetwynd wrote, produced and directed Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents, a PBS documentary that recounted the life and career of American Communist Party member Carl Foreman.