Batjac Productions is an independent production company founded by John Wayne that produced many of his films in the latter part of the late actor's career. It is an outlet of the Wayne Family Estate. John Wayne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

About The Company

Wayne and producer Robert Fellows founded Batjac in 1952 as Wayne/Fellows Productions. When Fellows left the company years later, Wayne re-named the corporation after a ficticious trading company mentioned in the 1948 film Wake of the Red Witch. Having his own company gave Wayne artistic control over the films he made. See also: 1947 in film 1948 1949 in film 1940s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first) The Road to Rio Easter Parade Red River The Three Musketeers, Johnny...

Among Batjac's productions: Hondo, The High and the Mighty, Cahill: U.S. Marshall, and McLintock!. Hondo can be: Hondo is a western film starring John Wayne. ... The High and the Mighty is a 1954 disaster movie released through Warner Brothers. ... McLintock! is a 1963 comedy Western starring John Wayne and Maureen OHara, and loosely based on Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew. ...

The most famous of all Batjac's films is Wayne's original 1960 version of The Alamo, a project he had planned for several years. It was an account of the tragic events at The Alamo in Texas involving Davy Crockett and his Army. The Alamo was released in 1960 by United Artists. ... Davy Crockett David Crockett (David de Crocketagne August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk-hero usually referred to as Davy Crockett. ...

The "Lost" Wayne Films

Because of a production/distribution deal with Warner Bros. and United Artists, Batjac was allowed to retain all rights to four Wayne films, the WB-distributed The High and the Mighty, Hondo, & Island in the Sky, and the UA-distributed McLintock!. After Wayne's death, his family continued to run Batjac, along with control as to how and when these films could be reissued. This led to many years of lawsuits, mostly involving McLintock!, which by the latter part of the 1990s had entered the public domain, although Batjac had granted MPI Home Video the rights to officially release Hondo and McLintock! on video. Hondo was re-issued to television in its original 3-D format prior to MPI's video release, while McLintock! was unofficially released on other video labels in poor quality prints while the Batjac-sanctioned print was being shown on the Turner networks. Warner Bros. ... The current United Artists logo. ... Hondo can be: Hondo is a western film starring John Wayne. ... McLintock! is a 1963 comedy Western starring John Wayne and Maureen OHara, and loosely based on Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Desert style landscape early morning rendered in terragen 3-D or 3D abbreviates three-dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ... Categories: Stub | Time Warner subsidiaries ...

In 2004, Paramount Pictures reached an agreement with Batjac for the distribution rights to the "lost" Wayne films, and digitally restored and remastered these films for theatrical, television, and home video reissue beginning in the summer of 2005. The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 1995. ...

Batjac today continues to be run by the Wayne family, and oversees a key portion of John Wayne's career.