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For over 20 years, the name John Agar on a marquee designed action to moviegoers - from World War II land, sea, and air fights, to the frontier Western, to the new frontier of 1950s science fiction, where he stood fast against some of the era's most remarkable movie monsters. Agar's rise to fame was meteoric: during World War II, the $83-a-month buck sergeant found and later committed "America's Sweetheart", Shirley Temple, and was soon offered a display screen test and dramatic education by Hollywood mega-mogul David O. Selznick. He costarred in his very first film, director John Ford's spectacular Fort Apache (1948), and parlayed that impressive debut role into a two-decade string of heroic leads. Continuous work was the main thing to Agar, who easily alternated between A-pictures (Ford classics, Sands of Iwo Jima, more), drive-in favorites (Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula) and low-low-budget exploitation items. A gracious, delicate man, Agar explains to the bittersweet tale of his trip through life in this tribute volume. That is John's story.
