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When was this last seen on T.V.


I'm only 32, but a huge Duke fan and have only heard of this one. Seems to me that this hasn't been on the tube for quite some time if at all. July 16th AMC is calling it the world premiere. Is this true? If so it seems amazing that a Duke film has not been released or seen in close to 50 years by anyone.

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I was 9 or 10. So 40+years ago. I remember watching it and thinking John Wayne was my grandfather! It probably was a world premiere, on dvd/video. Took many years of writing to Bat Jac Productions too, to get Michael Wayne off his rear end to release this.

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it was on british tv last week.pretty good.

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It's on TCM right now. (7:30 in Colorado.)

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...tonight 26th July 2013 on TCM

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Today December 9th 2014, on NYC digital movie channels that seem to come up lately ..here in NYC, we have Chnl 5-2 Movies, 11-3 Wpix, 47-4 Grit Chnl, and 68-3 all available with a cheap local antenna. BTW, the scene where they are suppose to be extremely cold, I believe the Duke said something like minus 40 degrees, no vapor were coming out of their mouths as they spoke.

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With all the Wayne films out there it took roughly two generations of movie watching to catch up with this one. Not sure why?

Yes it was clearly not "-40 degrees" but it was still well done given the time and the shots were good. Their mini fires didn't make much sense I'd have been burning everying possible.

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I'm watching it even as I type. It's showing on this antenna TV network:
http://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/

Also showing today on Movies! are two other John Wayne movies: Rio Grande and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

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For anybody who wants to see this film, it's being shown twice tonight on the MOVIES channel, starting at 10:00 p.m.h

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We just started to get Movies Channel here in Alaska and today the movie was shown. Excellent movie. Yes it would of been awesome shown in color.

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Showing right now on our antennae 26.1 Movies! channel in Denver.

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It is showing on GRIT TV right now.






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It's on the Movies! broadcast channel right now. I've never seen it before.

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I'm recording it right now on Movies!. I have never seen it before.

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MOVIES! also has it scheduled for Tues Dec 13 afternoon and Mon Dec 19 morning

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I just saw it this morning. It was on one of the Epic channels. Great film!

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it's playing on an OTA channel right now called the Movies TV Network. First i ever saw it...Pretty good

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