The “Duke” and Democracy: On John Wayne

Dissent Magazine ^ | Winter 2008 | Charles Taylor

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[Maverick68]

I know everything I need to know about a person if they use "John Wayne" or "cowboy" as a disparaging adjective.
He is my favorite actor and "The Quiet Man" is in my Top 3 all time movies. Maureen O'Hara had a beauty in that movie that is to this day un-matched in cinema....

[Resolute Conservative]

Maureen is the queen, but Susan Hayward, Maureen O’Sullivan ( in the old Weissmuller Tarzans ), and Jean Simmons ( Big Country ) were some beauties that come close.

[calex59]

Add McClintock to that list for me. I do believe that Miss O’Hara and Mr. Wayne had an affair going from all the movies they made together but there was never a hint of it. I loved both of them for their acting and John Wayne’s love of his country. God bless his soul and I know he is in heaven. True Grit, The Shootist etc. Loved them all, even his old three mesquiters movies were ok to some extent.And don’t forget Big Jake.

[jazusamo]

Good post!

Trailer for "Rio Bravo"

[Diogenesis]

[Slicksadick]

IMHO best Wayne movie, The Searchers. His favorite role BTW, invented the anti hero.
http://www.filmsite.org/sear.html

[Cincinatus]

Rio Bravo is my favorite John Wayne movie. Walter Brennan is just great in it -- he's good enough that you forget that Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson can't act. Dean Martin is also great in it. And The Duke was never better -- Don Siegel even used footage from this movie to illustrate the (fictional) career of J. B. Books in opening scenes of The Shootist.

[pissant]

Maureen is still #1 in my eyes. And lifelong friend to the Duke.

[shotgun]

McClintock was a classic conservative movie and The Duke’s disain for liberal policies came though pretty clearly...

“Don’t tempt me bureaucrat, I got a touch of hangover”

[#1CTYankee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqlP6hzofE&feature=related

[pissant]

But Angie Dickinson was some eye candy....

[Doomonyou]

And in Howard Hawks’s 1959 Rio Bravo, the director’s masterpiece (now out in a beautifully remastered DVD from Warner Bros.)

Gonna hafta get that one!

[tumblindice]

Ethan: That’ll be the day. (He mounts his horse.) Spread out....
Maybe the best western ever.

[#1CTYankee]

" Don Siegel even used footage from this movie to illustrate the (fictional) career of J. B. Books in opening scenes of The Shootist."

The Shootist (as I'm sure you know) was his last film, he was in rough shape but really wanted to do this movie.

Word is they had to payoff the doctor so he could pass the psychical or they wouldn't have insurance. They had someone nearby full time with oxygen for him.

[Cincinatus]

True enough. But her scenes with The Duke in the movie are truly cringe-inducing.

[pissant]

Just hit mute when she’s talking. LOL

[Larry381]

A world gone by.........

[jazusamo]

Angie Dickinson and John Wayne in Rio Bravo

[pissant]

Better than all the Julia Robertses and Halle Berrys etc combined.