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Wayne and producer Robert Fellows founded Batjac in 1952 as Wayne/Fellows Productions. When Fellows left the company several years later, Wayne renamed the corporation after a fictitious trading company mentioned in the film Wake of the Red Witch (1948).
Apr 4, 2003 · Beginning with ''The Alamo'' in 1960, Mr. Wayne became involved in the growing Wayne family film enterprise. ''The Alamo'' was produced by John Wayne's Batjac Productions.
In 1956 the production company became Batjac Productions, the banner under which Wayne would produce nearly 30 more films before his death. Batjac was a misspelling of Batak, a reference from a 1948 film Wayne made at Republic, Wake of the Red Witch , with his recurring leading lady Gail Russell.
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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!
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.
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Jul 10, 2023 · Wayne and producer Robert Fellows founded Batjac in 1952 as Wayne/Fellows Productions. When Fellows left the company several years later, Wayne renamed the corporation after a fictitious trading company mentioned in the film Wake of the Red Witch (1948).
