I'm a huge John Wayne fan. Have many of his later westerns on DVD. Big Jake, Rooster Cogburn, True Grit, The War Wagon, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Cowboys, McClintock. Excellent movies all...... But the old B movies suck by any measure.
I've seen a few of the B westerns of the Duke's. Some aren't that bad, but I do enjoy the later "A" list films a lot more. I've got most of his (my favorites) on DVD, not to mention Fonda, Stewart, Bronson and others. I keep my eyes peeled for films that I enjoy, as almost all the modern films leave me cold. Good plots and real scenery and stunts compared to recycled plots with overdone violence and computer simulated explosions? No thanks. 7mm
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Weren't all his movies B movies, maybe with the exception of The Shootist.
The Duke was a pretty poor excuse for an actor.
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As opposed to the stellar artist on Hollywierd's Silver Screens now? Not to mention the fact that 90% of the are limousine liberal douches flying around in private jets while pushing socialism on us common folk? Very few of them I would cross the street to whiz on if they were on fire. 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
I can't remember the title but he was in the NW Territories working with the mounties. In one scene he was paddling a canoe down a river, wearing a big white hat, and squatting in the canoe wearing SPURS. There wasn't a horse for 100 miles.
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I started watching The Lawless 90's from 1936 last night Those old B westerns were simple, but still better than most , if not all the new stuff.
Many things are better than what they made in the 30’s but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a Model A, even though you would rather drive a Yukon every day...
They were no better or no worse than any other movies of the same era but I do like watching them. If nothing else he's still in his prime and could really set a horse as opposed to the newer saddle horn hugging Rooster Cogburn era.
They were no better or no worse than any other movies of the same era but I do like watching them. If nothing else he's still in his prime and could really set a horse as opposed to the newer saddle horn hugging Rooster Cogburn era.
I seem to recall reading that he really didn't like horses.
Did seem fond of Spanish ladies and boats. Owned a converted minesweeper?
Paul
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If you don’t like John Wayne, there is something wrong with you.
Never said anything about not liking him, just that he was a piss poor excuse for an actor; never held a candle to James Stewart, Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin & Robert Shaw, just to name a few.
So please, just don't piss down my neck & tell be it's raining.
Bottom line, "The Duke" gave his movie goer fans exactly what they expected and wanted to see from him in the roles he played in cowboy and war movies --- no more-no less.
Not saying I’m an expert. My grandfather & my father were career union projectionists, IATSE Local 279. Since the drive-in’s had new movies every Monday night & my mother was a movie fanatic, we spent every Monday night there. It was free along with volumes of popcorn & coke. Tired, falling asleep in the rear dash of our 63 Pontiac Star Chief, mosquito bitten & sweat soaked was commonplace. I don’t really remember a movie I have not seen from that era of the 60’s & 70’s. The most memorable being The Groove Tube which got my Dad arrested. Second was Big Bad Mama with Angie Dickinson, won’t ever forget that movie. R ratings back then were equivalent to XXX for a Southern Baptist. I can still thread a film into the 7’ tall projectors, change the carbon rod, rewind the film & return it to its canister.
Honestly, I gave it the All-American try to appreciate John Wayne, just could never rally the cause.
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John Wayne and I have one thing in common: We were both born in the same town. Fifty years apart but the same town.
His best work was in his later years. My favorite movies were The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. It was also great work by Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The entire crew of that movie did a great job of making the movie believable. John Carradine was also in his last movie, The Shootist.
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I was cleaning out my storage shed and found 2 brand new full size John Wayne cardboard posters. I don’t know what to do with them. Any ideas? I would sell them but don’t know how hard they would be to ship..
I liked John Wayne in everything I ever saw him in I guess. I’m not one to judge his acting ability but it was always good enough for me. One thing I always noticed about Wayne though, was his ability to let his eyes and facial expressions do his acting for him and tell you what his character was thinking or was going to do next. One of my all time favorites!
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice.
My dearly departed mother in law met him on his boat anchored up in Puget Sound somewhere. He invited her aboard for cocktails with his latina wife. She was thrilled and talked about it to her dying day. There's a picture somewhere around here of her hanging on the Duke, cocktails and cigarettes in hand.
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