Probably John Wayne's best acting job. And WOW Joanne Dru was just perfect. Rule 1.



But can you imagine the fits people would have today? A Confederate flag at the burial of a US Army officer? All the drunken, violent Indians? Indian stereotypes of headdresses, smoke signals, etc? All the "degrading" female stereotypes? A complete absence of non-binary roles?

How could this have possibly been done?

I knew a girl, who wore a yellow ribbon. She wore through the spring time, and in the month of May

He won best actor in True Grit.

In 1949, a lot of less laws, freedoms and voices for the silent minority.

And if you asked her why the hell she wore it, she wore it for that young cadet so far, far away.

Far away, far away.............

"Watch them words!"

"Watch them grammar!"

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I knew a girl, who wore a yellow ribbon. She wore through the spring time, and in the month of May

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She said it's for the Arsenal and we're going to Wem-be-ley

The Searchers was his best acting job. And Joanne Dru was supposed hot in Red River

This is a great movie.

That scene where the column with wagons is overtaken by a thunderstorm was not planned, obviously. John Ford just kept the cameras rolling.

Goulding museum in monument valley is a neat obscure stop if you are ever that way.

Nothing that John Wayne did could be remade today, except maybe The Shootist.

The Searchers was loosely based on Cynthia Ann Parker, and other captives, and how no white man would want a white woman after an Indian had sex with her.

Hottest chick in any of his movies was Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo...

Ann Margaret in The Train Robbers may have something to say about that...

User name checks out...

Plenty of hotties in many of John Wayne's movies. Just off the top of my head.

Marlene Dietrich- Pittsburgh
Shirley Temple- Fort Apache
Maureen O'Hara- The Quiet Man, Rio Grande, The Wings of Eagles, McLintock!, Big Jake
Lana Turner- The Sea Chase
Lauren Bacall- Blood Alley
Susan Hayward- The Conqueror (Sadly, this movie may have very well have killed her, John Wayne and many others among the cast & crew.)
Stefanie Powers- McLintock!
Ann Margaret- The Train Robbers
Barbara Bouchet- In Harm's Way

As a kid, I had a crush on Jacqueline Malouf from Donovan's Reef. I still say she was very pretty. Even though she plays a teenager in the movie, the actress was 21 and about to graduate from USC at the time of filming.

Natalie Wood in The Searchers, though not on screen much

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Natalie Wood in The Searchers, though not on screen much

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Dang, I pride myself in my John Wanye movie knowledge, but totally missed that one.

I shall hide myself in shame.

His best movie is a toss up between Tbe Searchers and The Quiet Man.

Maureen O'Hara- wow

Definitely agree on the Searchers... I'd have Red River pretty close to the top too.

It's cool this old chick supported Desert Storm.

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Susan Hayward- The Conqueror (Sadly, this movie may have very well have killed her, John Wayne and many others among the cast & crew.)

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Can you expound on that? Never heard it before. TIA.

+ 1 for Angie Dickenson. Joanne Dru was a solid second.

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Susan Hayward- The Conqueror (Sadly, this movie may have very well have killed her, John Wayne and many others among the cast & crew.)

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Can you expound on that? Never heard it before. TIA.

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The Conqueror was filmed in St. George, Utah, which is downrange of what was then the Nevada Test Site. Before filming, the US had just run a full series of nuclear tests, which at the time was all done in the atmosphere. IIRC, the series was Upshot-Knothole. (Nuke test series have a code name, with each test having an additional name such as Upshot-Knothole Grable being the most famous in that series.) If it was Upshot-Knothole, the total yield for the series was 242 kilotons spread out among 11 total detonations.

The area where they filmed was heavily contaminated with fallout. There is even a photo of John Wayne and two of his sons with a Geiger counter while on set.

To make it worse, 60 tons of soil was shipped back to the studio for sound stage shooting. Of course that soil was contaminated with radionuclides form the atmospheric testing. Breathing in such dust is one of the worst things one can do since it gets the radioactive material inside the body so even an alpha emitter can do serious damage where outside it cannot even penetrate the outer layer of our skin.

Around 90 people of the main cast and crew either came down with or died of cancer including director Dick Powell, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Pedro Armendriz, John Hoyt, and Lee Van Cleef. While some of the cancers were likely due to smoking some of the cancers were types not associated with smoking, and Agnes Moorehead never smoked and was a health nut. Both Wayne's and Moorehead's kids who visited them on the set also either had cancer, or cancer scares.

No one knows what happened to all of the Indian (feather, not dot) extras.

I'm mighty fond of John Ford's Cav movies, but for hotties I vote for Michele Carey in El Dorado.

Dang, another super hotties I forgot. Very pretty face and a smoking body.

Charlene Holt wasn't bad looking either in El Dorado.

Okay, time to go kick myself in the butt and start re-watching John Wayne movies.

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Nothing that John Wayne did could be remade today, except maybe The Shootist.

The Searchers was loosely based on Cynthia Ann Parker, and other captives, and how no white man would want a white woman after an Indian had sex with her.

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The Coen Brothers' True Grit is coming up on 15 years old but there's nothing I can think of that would prevent it from being acclaimed if it came out today. Man that movie's good. I might have to go watch it now.

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Nothing that John Wayne did could be remade today, except maybe The Shootist.

The Searchers was loosely based on Cynthia Ann Parker, and other captives, and how no white man would want a white woman after an Indian had sex with her.

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The Coen Brothers' True Grit is coming up on 15 years old but there's nothing I can think of that would prevent it from being acclaimed if it came out today. Man that movie's good. I might have to go watch it now.

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I couldn't get past Jeff Bridges' fake gruff voice. And Matt Damon doesn't seem right for his role.

As far as John Wayne movie Hotties go, I'm kinda surprised no one has mentioned Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost

Plenty of John Wayne's movies could be made today. They'd probably be butchered, but the basic plot could easily be done again.

Other than The Searchers and Ford's cavalry trilogy, no way to do The Undefeated (Confederates aren't portrayed as horrible), The Green Berets (too pro-Vietnam War), McLintock! (misogynist/racist), Donovan's Reef (racist/misogynist), Blood Alley (anti-communist China), or The Sea Chase (pro-Nazi). I'm sure a lot of his early movies which I haven't seen would suffer the same fate.

Everything in ( ) is what the left would say about it now. Of course these would be distortions to outright lies, but the left never cares about the truth.

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Nothing that John Wayne did could be remade today, except maybe The Shootist.

The Searchers was loosely based on Cynthia Ann Parker, and other captives, and how no white man would want a white woman after an Indian had sex with her.

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The Coen Brothers' True Grit is coming up on 15 years old but there's nothing I can think of that would prevent it from being acclaimed if it came out today. Man that movie's good. I might have to go watch it now.

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I couldn't get past Jeff Bridges' fake gruff voice. And Matt Damon doesn't seem right for his role.

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Well, no accounting for taste, but it's easily in my top 10 all-time favorites.

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Nothing that John Wayne did could be remade today, except maybe The Shootist.

The Searchers was loosely based on Cynthia Ann Parker, and other captives, and how no white man would want a white woman after an Indian had sex with her.

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The Coen Brothers' True Grit is coming up on 15 years old but there's nothing I can think of that would prevent it from being acclaimed if it came out today. Man that movie's good. I might have to go watch it now.

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I couldn't get past Jeff Bridges' fake gruff voice. And Matt Damon doesn't seem right for his role.

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Well, no accounting for taste, but it's easily in my top 10 all-time favorites.

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I've visited some of the John Wayne True Grit filming locations in Colorado. It's hilarious that the "Ross Homestead" from "Yell County Arkansas" has this view from the front porch:





This is what the "Ross Homestead" looked like in 2013:




There are good things to be said about both of the True Grit movies, and the book is a quick read, and worth it. It took reading the book for me to finally figure out that the stilted language in the Cohen movie is because Mattie Ross "wrote the book" in her old age, after decades as a school teacher.

Claudia Cardinale was pretty OK too. From "Circus World"

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Plenty of hotties in many of John Wayne's movies. Just off the top of my head.

Marlene Dietrich- Pittsburgh
Shirley Temple- Fort Apache
Maureen O'Hara- The Quiet Man, Rio Grande, The Wings of Eagles, McLintock!, Big Jake
Lana Turner- The Sea Chase
Lauren Bacall- Blood Alley
Susan Hayward- The Conqueror (Sadly, this movie may have very well have killed her, John Wayne and many others among the cast & crew.)
Stefanie Powers- McLintock!
Ann Margaret- The Train Robbers
Barbara Bouchet- In Harm's Way

As a kid, I had a crush on Jacqueline Malouf from Donovan's Reef. I still say she was very pretty. Even though she plays a teenager in the movie, the actress was 21 and about to graduate from USC at the time of filming.

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Jennifer O'Neill and Sherry Lansing were two of the hottest young actresses to star with John Wayne in Rio Lobo.

Lansing even had a topless scene, although her hands covered her breasts.

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Hottest chick in any of his movies was Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo...

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Capucine In North to Alaska and it's not even close.