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!
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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.