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Batjac Productions
Batjac Productions is an independent film production company founded by John Wayne in the early 1950s as a vehicle for Wayne to produce as well as star in movies. Its first release was ''Big Jim McLain'' with Warner Brothers in 1952, and its final film was also with Warner Brothers, ''McQ'', in 1974. Today, Gretchen Wayne, wife of the actor’s late son, Michael Wayne, who managed and owned the company for over 30 years before his death in 2003, is its owner and president.
==About the company==
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 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.
Among Batjac's productions: ''The Alamo'', ''Hondo'', ''Cahill U.S. Marshal'', ''Big Jake'', ''McLintock!'', ''The Green Berets'', ''Seven Men from Now'', and ''McQ''.
The most famous of all Batjac's films is Wayne's 1960 version of ''The Alamo'', a project he had planned for several years. It was an account of the battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution of 1836. A labor of love for Wayne, ''The Alamo'' cost Wayne much of his personal fortune.
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