Posted on 06/11/2023 12:33:29 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
“His finest movie was Marshall Rooster Cogburn with Katy Hepburn.”
Maybe. He was always a great cowboy, soldier, or a town sheriff. I thought his most flexible and well acted part was as Shawn Thornton in “The Quiet Man.” And having the beautiful and talented Maureen Ohara next to him didn’t hurt his performance either. They teamed successfully many times.
wy69
We will not see his like again. Rio Bravo and The Searchers among many other movies he made stand at the very top of American culture icons.
His film, “The Sons of Katie Elder” is now being offered
by YT Movies & TV, gratis. A favorite JW flick, here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHK8WUgLCwo
Girly man
He was an actor.
My dad had one in his office and when I used to walk by it, i had to do a double take to make sure there wasn’t someone there.
As my dad was a big John Wayne fan, so am I. Nowadays the only time I can enjoy a John Wayne marathon is when I have the house to myself for the week.
I like “The Shootist,” except for every scene with Ron Howard in it.
As John Bernard Booker in The Shootist he said one of his best descriptions of what a man does to Gillam (Ron Howard)...
grcuster-thats nice.
Red River. The best Western every produced.
He was in the best version of ‘True Grit’ and “The Searchers’ is pretty darn good. John Wayne movies I bet bring in more viewers on tv even after decades and decades have gone by then the newer movies shown.
He might have won the Oskar for “Red River” except that it came out in 1946 which was the same year as ‘The Best Years of Our Lifes” about returning G.I.’s.
Very good analysis.
I can’t agree with every bit of it, but the general sense is about right.
“Red River”
I always felt Red River was more Montgomery Clift’s movie more than Wayne’s. Wayne established the character of the tough rancher and fatherly trail boss and Clift’s character was featured more after the point in the cattle drive where he sent Wayne’s character packing. After that, and until the final scenes of the movie, Clift was carrying the lead and it was long enough I think to be his feature because of the closing of the film with him being the hero after all. Wayne’s character in the cowboys was the same way. He was there, then he disappeared and either one or a few of the ensemble was featured filling the gap he left as the story line developed unlike another two westerns like Rio Bravo or El Dorado where he remained featured on camera all the time. Red River was an excellent movie however.
Far superior to the remake using James Arness who worked with Wayne a few times and had a close working relationship with Wayne until Arness snubbed him by not showing up for an interview for the small part in the Alamo after he had worked with Wayne in a number of movies to include the lead in the BATJAC produced Gun the Man Down in the late 1950’s. It was Wayne that recommended Arness for the “Gunsmoke” part.
wy69
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