Big Jim McLain Overview:

Big Jim McLain (1952) was a Action - Crime Film directed by Edward Ludwig and produced by John Wayne and Robert Fellows.

SYNOPSIS

A no-nonsense federal agent and his war-hero partner are assigned to investigate the activities of a worldwide ring of communist terrorist spies based in Hawaii.

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John Wayne recorded an advertisement for Camel cigarettes on the set of Big Jim McLain.
The German title is "Mathuana". In this dubbed version for the German market John Wayne plays a hunter of marijuana smugglers, not an investigator for the Un-American Activities Commitee ferreting out Communists, as in the original film.
The first film produced by Wayne-Fellows Productions (later renamed Batjac Productions), John Wayne's independent production company.
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