Actor & Role IV

[JohnnyHopkins]

I would go with "The Searchers" for his best.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Big Jake for the best, Ghengis for the worst.

Strong honorable mention for The Shootist as 1a for best though. Really like that film, which maybe in no small part that I had somehow never seen it until a few years ago.

 

[Arch Stanton]

Best ~ The Shootist - honorable mentions....True Grit, Rio Bravo and The Alamo.

Worst ~ The Conqueror.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

I haven't watched enough of his movies to comment really.

Same. I havent seen 1 of his movies.

I guess its just the upbringing. How often am I going to see a movie 20-30 years old come on TV when I was growing up?

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Same. I havent seen 1 of his movies.

I guess its just the upbringing. How often am I going to see a movie 20-30 years old come on TV when I was growing up?

Incredibly frequently. I was 2 when The Duke passed, but I've seen every film mentioned here so far. One or two of them a dozen times or more. AMC runs marathons of his films pretty often as well.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Incredibly frequently. I was 2 when The Duke passed, but I've seen every film mentioned here so far. One or two of them a dozen times or more. AMC runs marathons of his films pretty often as well.

I was -9 when he died. And I didnt have AMC when I was a kid.


Thats the kind of thing that someone needs to put on for you. No kid w/ 3-6 other siblings is going to use their TV time on a black and white western they know nothing about.


I would watch Comedy Central movies a lot growing up.

 

[Hostile]

Ditto. The top sentimental favorites of mine are his roles in The Alamo, The Cowboys and The Searchers. So much of his stuff is classic The Duke stuff. I couldn't honestly say how often I've rewatched McLintock! and Big Jake (side note: Richard Boone gives one of the BEST dying scenes in Hollywood history that movie in my opinion).

Richard Boone is a terribly under rated actor. This scene from Big Jake between him and John Wayne is the bomb.

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If you ever want to see him in an under rated role, watch Hombre starring Paul Newman.

 

[UnoDallas]

Chisum - cause I related to John Chisum

Rio Bravo - The Sons of Katie Elder

 

[Chief]

I gotta see what people say about John Wayne.


Best...Marshall Rooster Cogburn in both movies.


Worst...Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror."

That's it. Nailed it.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Richard Boone is a terribly under rated actor. This scene from Big Jake between him and John Wayne is the bomb.

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If you ever want to see him in an under rated role, watch Hombre starring Paul Newman.

One helluva scene.

My only nit to pick on that entire movie is the very end. Should have been done a bit different than everyone riding off smiling, leaving Jacob's friend dead on the cold ground.

 

[ethiostar]

You have no one to blame for that but the man who stares at you in the mirror when you shave and brush your teeth.

He has no use for a mirror, he neither shaves nor brushes his tooth.

 

[burmafrd]

One helluva scene.

My only nit to pick on that entire movie is the very end. Should have been done a bit different than everyone riding off smiling, leaving Jacob's friend dead on the cold ground.

I would imagine Jake would make sure his friend was buried. But he also would have known that his friend would prefer to die a warrior.

 

[burmafrd]

I have been back and forth for years between the Searchers and Shootist for his best role.

There are arguments both ways. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was good as well.


Blood Alley was not as bad as claimed. The Conqueror was without a doubt his worst. He apologized the rest of his life for doing that movie. THAT was the one that made him determined to make his own, that was where BATJAC came from.