[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***There are several freepers who do not like John Wayne. I hope this post reaches some of them.***

John Wayne was a very good actor from the late 1930s to the mid 1960s.
After THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE he fell into a rutt of same same. Same character, different shirt.
Same character, same plot, movie after movie. I've seen them all.

He did change again in the 1970s and I still consider THE OUTLAWS and THE SHOOTIST to be his crowning work, even though critics at that time blasted it unmercifully.

I personally have a preference for Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and some Gary Cooper westerns.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

He did change again in the 1970s and I still consider THE OUTLAWS and THE SHOOTIST to be his crowning work.

That is, THE TRAIN ROBBERS and HE SHOOTIST. Sorry. When I think of Ann Margaret I black out for a moment. ;-)