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You're right about the Green Berets. That was the movie that would have gotten Wayne blacklisted if he hadn't been so popular with the public. What I always respected about Wayne, who was way cooler than Eastwood, is that Wayne NEVER backed down from his beliefs. Even in True Grit, he uttered the terrific line, "You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You've got to kill it or let it be." Eastwood has spent a significant part of his career backtracking from movies like Dirty Harry and Heartbreak Ridge. He also made one of the first mainstream homosexual movies, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. It was never advertised as a homosexual movie, but it was obvious that Eastwood and Kennedy were old homosexual lovers, and that Kennedy was angry with Eastwood for taking up with the younger Jeff Bridges.

As a side note, most people list High Noon as the best western, but I think that "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was the best western ever made. At the end of the movie, it still breaks me up when Jimmy Stewart's character is blustering to the conductor on the train, and the conductor says, "Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance."

Adding to this list, Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" raised a few hackles, also. The PC crowd hates the U.S. and particularly the revolution, because there were so many heroes. I remember in the computer game "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego", in the tour of Canada, the travel guide says, "Canada got their independence the RIGHT way, by negotiation." This was obviously a statement that the United States had done it the WRONG way, by revolution. Interestingly enough, they had nothing bad to say about any of the Communist revolutions.