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What other immortals should make new movies?
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I developed a suspicion, some decades ago, that Wayne only made one western. They just kept recutting it.
For trivia geeks, Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, and El Dorado are the same film.
Steve
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Marilyn Monroe
That is the one who will never die.
I was never much of a John Wayne fan. However, I did like Rio Grand, The Quiet Man, and McLintock!, but only because Maureen O’Hara was in them 
Pete
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McLintock is pretty good. My favorite is El Dorado, even though it is the same move as Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo. Wayne and Bob Mitchum had a special chemistry.
Steve
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Rio Bravo because has excellent iconic scenes of mayhem, Western singing, romance, and because Ricky Nelson was so so so pretty…whew!
david fb
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The Searchers was something quite different.
DB2
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I liked The Green Berets.
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I just about break out laffing when Aldo Ray starts bellowing about “Communist domination of the world”.
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There wasn’t any warbling in the jailhouse in el Dorado, but some of the scenes are hysterical.
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More el Dorado, James Caan (the Ricky Nelson role) cooking up a drunk cure for Mitchum (Dean Martin role) with Arthur Hunnicutt in the Walter Brennan role.
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Yes, yes, I really enjoyed El Dorado too. James Caan could really really act, making poor Ricky N look silly in comparison.
david fb
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A great film and one of my favorites. Your really need to see Wayne in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and “the Shootist”. You might appreciate him a bit more.
JimA
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Stagecoach!!! and here is the original trailer, and by the way the colorized version sucks because they messed with the gorgeous gray subtleties that Ford had mastered…
But the John Wayne of Stagecoach is a very different Wayne…
david fb
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…and another genre altogether (maybe the third and final eternally AI’d reusable clone of Wayne, but also of Hepburn, and they clearly detested and cherished each other both in and out of character: Rooster Cogburn.
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What impressed me the most about el Dorado was the job Bob Mitchum did. If you want to see more early Caan, he was in “The Glory Guys”, where he played an enlisted man with a big mouth. He got on the bad side of one of the officers, so, when they were deployed, he brought a shovel, so he could bury the officer nice and deep.
Some thoughtful person uploaded the entire film. Not nearly as good as el Dorado, but it has it’s moments, courtesy of a Sam Peckinpah script.
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Another favorite of mine, for some 50 years, has been “Bandolero”, while is helped along by a cracking good Jerry Goldsmith score.
In the year before my dad passed away from dementia, he developed a fixation on John Wayne movies. Watched them day and night, over and over. My mom bought the entire catalog on dvd, and would cycle through them for him.
Some of them are really terrible. And after a year of non-stop Wayne, I never need to see another one. My mom is a saint.
One of my favorite quotes: A cow’s nothin’ but a lot of trouble tied up in a leather bag. A horse ain’t much better.
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Right on, David fb! Another black and white classic film, directed by John Ford, is one of my all-time favorites, How Green Was My Valley, the 1942 Best Picture Academy Award winner, starring Maureen Ohara (btw Ford’s favorite actress who later co-starred with John Wayne in Ford’s directed The Quiet Man).
Julia Wierzbicki wrote in her 11/20/2020 university student newspaper article, How Green Was My Valley: Why black and white films need more hype (website did not work here):
It truly bothers me when people refuse to watch films that are in black and white. Once people stop seeing a lack of color as a hindrance and instead as a story-telling method, it becomes so much more interesting to view. How Green Was My Valley is a perfect example of how a lost-in-time black and white film is actually a hidden gem that, if given the chance, can withstand the test of time. My boyfriend encouraged me to start watching black and white films, so now I’m going to challenge you to do the same: expand your horizons and watch a colorless film. I’d recommend starting with How Green Was My Valley (it’s free on YouTube!). You’ll find yourself a more well-rounded movie enthusiast because of it.
Some films were just meant to be and should remain untouched in their powerful original black and white story-telling format, e.g., the 1929-1930 Academy Award winner for outstanding production/best picture, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Regards,
Ray
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And a shout out for “The Man who Shot Liberty Valance.”
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