As of the drafting of this review (3/17/20), Sherry Jackson, the then 11-year old daughter of Steve Williams (aka John Wayne), is still living (and approx., 77).
And candidly sharing, it's quiet tempting to personally hire a good private investigator, to try & locate Ms. Jackson's current residence, and then, draft a kind & endearing, letter, requesting her, to be fully forthcoming, and state for the record, if either The 'Duke', Donna Reed or she, had ever discussed or, actually had (or ultimately developed), any theory or notion, as to, the direction that each of their roles, were to take the movie (both individually and collectively)?
In the movie world of abject make believe, what possible plot, would call for a small child, in the closing screen, to willfully abandon her devoted & loving father & essentially, walk off into the proverbial sunset, locked arm-in-arm, w the same female truant-officer (Donna Reed) that, had spent, the lion's share of the film, attempting to demonize the father and negatively affect his custody
Yet, in the end, she falls in love w this 'troubled' father (and his daughter), but while the credits begin to scroll up the screen, viewers are tossed a curve-ball & left sucking their thumb, as they watch JW, as he & the now retired & beloved priest, walk off into one direction, while the child & truant officer, skip off in opposite direction.
What the?
And candidly sharing, it's quiet tempting to personally hire a good private investigator, to try & locate Ms. Jackson's current residence, and then, draft a kind & endearing, letter, requesting her, to be fully forthcoming, and state for the record, if either The 'Duke', Donna Reed or she, had ever discussed or, actually had (or ultimately developed), any theory or notion, as to, the direction that each of their roles, were to take the movie (both individually and collectively)?
In the movie world of abject make believe, what possible plot, would call for a small child, in the closing screen, to willfully abandon her devoted & loving father & essentially, walk off into the proverbial sunset, locked arm-in-arm, w the same female truant-officer (Donna Reed) that, had spent, the lion's share of the film, attempting to demonize the father and negatively affect his custody
Yet, in the end, she falls in love w this 'troubled' father (and his daughter), but while the credits begin to scroll up the screen, viewers are tossed a curve-ball & left sucking their thumb, as they watch JW, as he & the now retired & beloved priest, walk off into one direction, while the child & truant officer, skip off in opposite direction.
What the?