]After several years of a mysterious absence following he Civil War, loner and war veteran Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) suddenly appears with no explanation (where has he been?), returning on horseback o his estranged brother Aaron Edwards"" family, living on a solitary, Texas frontier farm.Each of them was decorated and honored with golden medallions for their bravery.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The first film of the series (in the original saga), and the fourth film in terms of chronology.Nominated for ten Academy Awards (with six wins): Best Art Direction (win), Best Costume Design (win), Best Film Editing (win), Best Score (win), Best Sound (win), Best Visual Effects (win), Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor (Guinness).In more modern times,Coming Home (1978)portrayed he same plight of the returning serviceman.The major stars, who each gave the performance of their lives in this Best Picture winner, were:Al Stephenson (Fredric March), the eldest returning veteran, an alcoholic Army Sergeant married to loyal Milly (Myrna Loy)Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), a handsome Air Force bombadier involved in two romances - with party-girl wife Marie (Virginia Mayo), and in a new love relationship with Al""s daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright)Homer Parrish (Harold Russell almost uncredited in the film, a WWII vet) as a sailor, the hometown""s former football hero, involved with fiancee/girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O""Donnell)The germinal idea for the literate, meticulously-constructed film came from aTimeMagazine pictorial article (August 7, 1944) that was then re-fashioned into a novel titledGlory for Meby commissioned author MacKinlay Kantor.)The film""s narrator provides a few more facts about Richard Sherman, a professional, Walter-Mittyish publisher of paperback books:He works for a publishing firm, Brady and Co.Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)d.William Shatner, 107 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe film opened in the year 2287 on the desolate planet of Nimbus III ("the Planet of Galactic Peace") in the Neutral Zone, where a renegade Vulcan named Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) was introduced on his "quest for ultimate knowledge"; he exhibited a unique telepathic, mind-controlling power to help every person with "secret pain" ("Share your pain"), in order to expose and reckon with it, and force it into the light; he announced he was in need of a starship.