Director John Milius is a disciple of my favorite Director John Ford. Milius has made some fine movies. A partial list is as follows:
Rough Riders (1997) About Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. A TV movie but needs to be put out on DVD. I love it.Through his work, on Rough Riders (1997) (TV), he was instrumental in causing President Theodore Roosevelt to be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for acts of conspicuous gallantry on San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Flight of the Intruder ( 1991) Naval pilot's inVietnam. Jane Fonda will not like this move but I do! One of the few movies about Vietnam that is not pro "cut and run" but more like "why won't they let us win!"
Red Dawn ( 1982) One of my favorite all time movies. About the United States partially under Communist rule and high school students in occupied America conduct gorilla warfare against the Reds. Liberals hate this movie. See poster above.
Conan the Barbarian (1982) Made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star....... and now Republican Governor of California.
The Wind and the Lion (1975) Brian Keith is a great Teddy Roosevelt as President. Candice Bergen... how did she get in there?
AS you can tell Milius is a conservative and was the inspiration for drag-racer John Milner (played by Paul LeMat) in American Graffiti
Wrote the line, "Go ahead, make my day", for Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" character in Sudden Impact (1983).
Some of his favorites films are
Howard Hawks' Red River, Raoul Walsh's they Died With their Boots On, John Ford's The Searchers and They Were Expendable, David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
For more on John Milius go to the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) by clicking on the title above for a link. Also see post below with picture.
