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Batjac Productions is an independent film production company co-founded by John Wayne in 1952 as a vehicle for Wayne to both produce and star in movies. The first Batjac production was Big Jim McLain released by Warner Bros. in 1952, and its final film was McQ , in 1974, also distributed by Warner Bros.
Wayne decided to produce the movie with his own production company, Batjac, and Warner Bros. put up $7,000,000 to finance it. "I've been to Vietnam, and I've talked to the men there, and I don't have the slightest doubt about the correctness of what we are doing," Wayne said.
In the late 1970s I came to work at John Wayne’s Batjac Productions after writing “The Fall Guy,” the autobiography of Chuck Roberson, Duke’s stuntman and dear friend. Duke loved Chuck’s book, wrote the foreword and told me with a laugh, “You’ve got all the good stuff in Chuck’s book! There’s nothing left for me to tell!”.
May 22, 2024 · Ashfaan. May 22, 2024. Batjac Productions is an independent film production company co-founded by John Wayne in 1952 as a vehicle for Wayne to both produce and star in movies. The first Batjac production was Big Jim McLain released by Warner Bros. in 1952, and its final film was McQ, in 1974, also distributed by Warner Bros.
Aug 6, 2021 · The original brand on Seven Men from Now is John Wayne’s Batjac Productions. The Duke had bought Burt Kennedy’s screenplay as a vehicle for himself but then moseyed off to star in John Ford’s epic The Searchers instead. That decision worked to the benefit of both movies.
Sep 30, 2010 · Wayne re-named the corporation after a fictitious trading company mentioned in the 1948 film Wake of the Red Witch. The company name in Wake of the Red Witch was spelled Batjak, but Wayne's secretary misspelled it as Batjac on the corporation papers, and Wayne let it stand. Having his own company gave Wayne artistic control over the films he made.
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After Wayne’s death, eldest son Michael would manage Batjac until his own passing in 2003. During this decade, the evolution of John Wayne the star can be seen in two roles he played at the start and end of the 1950s: In the two hit Westerns Rio Grande (1950) and Rio Bravo (1959). The first, a black and white film made with close collaborator ...
