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They Came To Cordura (1959) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Robert Rossen and produced by William Goetz.

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So Bad It’s Good Blogathon – They Came to Cordura (1959)

By Carol Martinheira on Feb 23, 2024 From The Old Hollywood Garden

So Bad It’s Good Blogathon – They Came to Cordura (1959) On February 23, 2024February 23, 2024 By CarolIn Uncategorized Image from Trailers from Hell The Sixth So Bad It’s Good Blogathon is here! My friend Rebecca over at Taking Up Room is once agai... Read full article

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Quotes from They Came To Cordura:

Adelaide Geary: Heroes? Saints living in the desert? My God, they tried to rape me! And blackmail you! It's a wonder they haven't shot you already! No, Thorne, they're only men - and damned poor specimens at that!
Major Thomas Thorn: I have less right than any man on earth to judge them.
Adelaide Geary: Or to judge yourself either.
Major Thomas Thorn: [pauses] You may be right, what you say. They're human beings. But they're more than that. They have one thing in them that is a miracle and a mystery. It redeems them. They don't know what it is themselves, but they have it. I have to save it.
Adelaide Geary: You really believe this?
[he nods]
Adelaide Geary: If you do, Thorn, if you do... you may be worth all of them.
Major Thomas Thorn: I became two men. One can't stand living in the same skin with the other.
Adelaide Geary: I wouldn't give him my sweat if he was dying of thirst.
Sgt. John Chawk: [of a hand-pumped railroad cart] Ladies and gents, this is the Spitball Express. Heroes ride free;
[eyes Adelaide suggestively]
Sgt. John Chawk: ladies at their own risk. As far as majors are concerned, the end of the line comes a lot closer than they think. All aboard!
Major Thomas Thorn: If there's one piece of truth in your insect soul, I want it!
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Facts from They Came To Cordura
Dick York suffered a back injury during the filming of this movie and never fully recovered from it. Continuing back problems forced him off of the TV show Bewitched in 1969 and effectively ended his career. He spent his last years in poverty.
Due to restrictions of the Production Code implemented by the Hays Office, Maj. Thorn's homosexuality could only be implied in the movie and not stated outright.
During filming Gary Cooper arranged for his daughter to "date" gay actor Tab Hunter. He had previously arranged for her to "date" gay actor Anthony Perkins while they were filming Friendly Persuasion, a film he hated.
In a 1960 interview John Wayne criticized this film and Montgomery Clift's Suddenly, Last Summer, both of which treated homosexuality (in this film because of an implied homosexual relationship between the characters played by Gary Cooper and Tab Hunter), as "poison polluting Hollywood's moral bloodstream." The latter, he said, was "too disgusting even for discussion."
John Wayne criticized what he perceived to be a "lack of patriotism" of this film, saying "How they got Gary Cooper to do that one, to me, at least, it simply degrades the Medal of Honor. The whole story makes a mockery of America's highest award for valor, the whole premise of the story was wrong, illogical because they don't pick the type of men the movie picked to win the award, and that can be proved by the very history of the award."
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