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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 21, 2019 16:26:50 GMT
Not many great actors go out on a high note. John Wayne certainly did. A great movie. The Duke wasn't dying and many think, but he knew this was it. And it wasn't written especially for Wayne. Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood turned it down. He struggled so much with the high altitude of Carson City and he discovered early on that he couldn't ride a horse anymore (he only rides in a brief scene in the beginning). One question for y'all. Does anyone else think it looks like a made for TV movie? None of the obvious commercial breaks but the look of the prints reminds me.
Spoiler
Red the book. In the book, JB Books shoots Pulford (the faro dealer) in the back and Gillom (Ron Howard) shoots Books. Wayne refused to shoot it that way wanting the cowardly brtender to do it instead
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 21, 2019 16:42:58 GMT
Great movie! I own a DVD copy. It is also the last film I viewed with Hugh O'Brien.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 21, 2019 17:30:17 GMT
It's a great finnish to a great career, for John Wayne.
James Stewart, Lauren Bacall and Richard Boone are great too.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 21, 2019 17:34:30 GMT
Remember the cancer PSA that came from it?
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Post by millar70 on Dec 21, 2019 17:50:54 GMT
Very good movie, and a fine way for a legend to end his career.
It's an odd movie, the GoodMan is right, it has the feel of a television movie but man, what a cast!
Let's not forget Scatman Crothers is in it, which is always a plus. And I loved Harry Morgan as the phony tough guy Marshall. Right before he became Colonel Potter on M.A.S.H.
Other than True Grit, probably my favorite late-era John Wayne film.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 21, 2019 19:16:47 GMT
9/10. One of his best films.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 21, 2019 19:43:51 GMT
Very good movie, and a fine way for a legend to end his career. It's an odd movie, the GoodMan is right, it has the feel of a television movie but man, what a cast! Let's not forget Scatman Crothers is in it, which is always a plus. And I loved Harry Morgan as the phony tough guy Marshall. Right before he became Colonel Potter on M.A.S.H. Other than True Grit, probably my favorite late-era John Wayne film. The late era Wayne films were OK, not much more. He continually played "The Funny Fat Tough Guy". Big Jake, McClintock!, Rooster Cogburn. They were entertaining films. JB Books wasn't that type of character.
Too many great actor's careers ended badly. Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Taylor, Bela Lugosi.
Harry Morgan was good as the comic relief Marshal. So was Richard Boone. when Bill McKinney starts shooing in the final gunfight, he gets a great bored look on his face.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 25, 2019 7:25:26 GMT
Very good movie, and a fine way for a legend to end his career. It's an odd movie, the GoodMan is right, it has the feel of a television movie but man, what a cast! Let's not forget Scatman Crothers is in it, which is always a plus. And I loved Harry Morgan as the phony tough guy Marshall. Right before he became Colonel Potter on M.A.S.H. Other than True Grit, probably my favorite late-era John Wayne film.What do you think of The Cowboys (Mark Rydell, 1972)? It constitutes my favorite post-1962 Wayne movie, although I also commend True Grit, which I have seen three times in the theater since February 2018.
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