..You""re living backwards, Rocko.Change the channel from yesterday.Yesterday wasn""t so great....Sorry, Rocko, I can""t do this no more."Late one night, at the Lucky Seven Tavern which he had frequented in his past, he struck up an acquaintance with the bartender named Little Marie (Geraldine Hughes).] Because Danaher had gossiped in the pub and confidently insisted hat she would marry him, the widow spitefully decided instead to sell the adjacent property to the newcomer - thereby alienating Danaher and Thornton from the start:Danaher: Is it true.Ford considered he rollicking, comedy love story one of his favorite films.The memorable plot was about the collision course between an anti-materialistic, Irish-American boxer nicknamed ""Trooper Thornton"" (Wayne) in the town of Innisfree in the land of his Irish birthplace and a local, mean bully (McLaglen).Earlier, the fictional, epic-length soap operaNorth and South (1985), with stars Patrick Swayze, Robert Mitchum, Kirstie Alley, Johnny Cash, Gene Kelly, Hal Holbrook - and others, and based on John Jake""s best-selling novels, was the astonishing attempt of a TV mini-series (at over 1200 minutes) to recapture the scope of the ante-bellum period, in its story of two families during he Civil War era -- the Hazard family of Pennsylvania and the Main family of South Carolina.