I know a lot of people don't like John Wayne, but I've always liked many of his movies.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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I just watched "McClintock" for the first time. Very politically incorrect... but
fun. In this movie and in "The Quiet Man", he gets to spat with AND spank
Maureen O'Hara. No wonder so many men envy him!!!
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M-m-m, fiery redheads!!!
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Even Yvonne deCarlo looked kinda hot -- though they had her all made up
somewhere between Joan Crawford in "Mommy Dearest' and her Lily Munster
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[cyberswede]

1. I love John Wayne movies.

I'm not thrilled with his politics, though.

[Major Nikon]

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[Major Nikon]

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[Ptah]

4. John Wayne's teeth; are the plastic?

Are they steel?

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I think Victor and Thomas sing that in the back of the bus in "Smoke Signals"...

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... to fuck with the cranky, sour old white people in the front of the bus.
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Hilarious scene and a wonderful display of two young men luxuriating in their youthfulness.
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[Ptah]

6. That's where I first heard it

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. John Wayne was an icon

I didn't like his politics but I still went to see The Green Berets despite my opposition to the war. I don't live my life in an ideological bubble and I interact with and get exposed to all points of view. And some of his movies were very entertaining. He wasn't the greatest actor and he maybe was a bit of a hypocrite in becoming a symbol of the U.S. military while never putting himself in harm's way, but he was bigger than life and an important American figure beyond movies. He also wasn't a constipated uptight person and would tell you what he thought to your face. Here's a link to a famous audio clip of John Wayne giving an invited commencement address at UCLA where he is completely drunk on his ass and can barely get the words out of his mouth and where he peppers his commencement address with colorful expressions like "I don't give a shit", "goddamned", "hell", "jesus", etc. He's objecting to Vietnam war protesters at college campuses and in his drunkenness gets a bit carried away. A guy who gets drunk in public to deliver a commencement address sprinkled with curse words can't be all bad unlike conservatives of today who pretend to be all self-righteous in public but engage in every kind of transgression behind closed doors.

[Paladin]

8. "Red River" Is Still My Favorite Western. (nt)

[glacierbay]

9. Red River is a classic

I've watched it I don't know how many times and I still enjoy it, I really liked his movies towards the end of his life. My three favorites were True Grit, The Cowboys and The Shootist.

[Paladin]

11. My Favorite "Red River" Side Story:

I read that when John Ford was asked about John Wayne's performance in "Red River," his comment was "I didn't know the big sonovabitch could act!" High praise indeed for director Howard Hawks.....

[glacierbay]

12. Good story

thanks for sharing, I'd have to say that Red River was his best movie, my wife's favorite is Donovan's Reef, she loves that movie. Another one I really liked was McQ.

[Tom Ripley]

10. I like "The Searchers" because it is a great film and "The Cowboys" because Wayne gets killed

(shot by a long-haired Bruce Dern)

[Motown_Johnny]

13. I grew up on John Wayne movies and still like them.

They may seem dated now but they helped shape the industry at the time.

[nolabear]

14. I've always felt a little guilty about my affection for John Wayne.

And McClintock! was a favorite, along with The Quiet Man, in which I think he also whups Maureen's beautiful ass. Those two had a lot of chemistry, and as a little girl with a big, seriously mean father who also idolized The Duke I think it got pretty Freudian for me. If I could choose to be anything it would be a fiery redhead who gave as good as she got.