El Dorado with John Wayne and Robert Michum

Liberty Valance??? That's the toughest man south of the Picketwire..........next to me.

That's My favorite Wayne film. The Searchers a very close second. Stagecoach, The Shootist, True Grit, Big Jim McLain, McLintock, The Angel and the Badman, The Quiet Man all get an honorable mention

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bigwheelzip said:
Sacrilege on a gun forum, but my favorite Duke movie had no firearms. The Quiet Man, made even better with Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald.
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There was one revolver in "The Quiet Man". It was a early model Webley that was kept in the tavern. Used to signal the start of a match or fight
 
Next time you watch ELDORADO. Near the end of the film, after the big fight. Mitchum and Hunnicutt are talking. As the camera switches back and forth, notice Mitchum's boot. In one scene it has a large dark spot (or hole) on the bottom then in the next scene the spot is gone and then back again.
 
John Wayne was a great character actor playing himself. In my opinion his last film, The Shootist was his best acting. That movie stunned me with how good he was acting. Although he was acting like a hardened man dying of cancer, which he was. That said... Big Jake gets my favorite JW movie vote. He has some stinkers too, but with the crowd here I'll forget about them. :rolleyes:
 
One thing in this movie you don't see too much of, Bull is carrying what appears to be a Revolving Rifle. :cool:
You don't see them used that much, or have I been missing them? ;)
Next time I watch I'll be looking for that hole in Mitcums boot!:D
 
I felt sorry for the guy talking to Barry Fitzgerald in "The Quiet Man", when Barry was talking to him and spit on him during his excitement. Neither one of them seemed to miss a beat with their acting when that happened.:eek:
 
John Wayne has long been my favorite actor, and while there are some of his movies that don't quite hit the mark, I can generally watch and enjoy anything with him in it. My wife doesn't understand how I can watch the same movies over and over again, whereas when she's seen a movie once, that's enough for her. Yet she will watch "I Love Lucy" repeatedly.

My all time favorite JW movie is "The Quiet Man" but his westerns are a close second. His war movies are good too...my personal favorites are "In Harm's Way" and "Flying Tigers."
 
Qc Pistolero said:
And my wife thinks I must be the sole guy on this planet who likes to watch the same movie umpteen times!Am I glad to see I ain't that much off!
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"WE" are a big exclusive club "Aint" we? :D

Just to name a few of my favorites ive seen a zillion times.
Cross of Iron, Battle of the Bulge, Sands of Iwa Jima, To Hell and Back, Sergeant York, The Fighting 69th, Arrowhead, Winchester 73, STAGECOACH, Allegheny Uprising, Hell and High Water, Battleground, Hell To Eternity, Hell IS For Heroes, The Adventure of Robin Hood, Gentleman Jim, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, yadda yadda yadda.
 
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fordson said:
Well, I'll take a shot. "The Conqueror" and "The Gesiha and the Barbarian" were not his finest efforts. He was never so good as when he was on a horse or opposite Maureen O'Hara.
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Ahhhhh, Fort Apache and Rio Grande. Need I say more? :D :D :D
 
bgrafsr said:
I felt sorry for the guy talking to Barry Fitzgerald in "The Quiet Man", when Barry was talking to him and spit on him during his excitement. Neither one of them seemed to miss a beat with their acting when that happened.:eek:
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When Bette Davis slapped Errol Flynn in: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex--that was a very real one too. Flynn wanted to kill her. They had had a bad rivalry for years started by a jealous Davis. Davis thought he couldn't act-till many years later long after he was dead-she watched one of his old movies (I don't recall which she said?) and she said: "He really could act."
 
GKC said:
John Wayne has long been my favorite actor, and while there are some of his movies that don't quite hit the mark, I can generally watch and enjoy anything with him in it. My wife doesn't understand how I can watch the same movies over and over again, whereas when she's seen a movie once, that's enough for her. Yet she will watch "I Love Lucy" repeatedly.

My all time favorite JW movie is "The Quiet Man" but his westerns are a close second. His war movies are good too...my personal favorites are "In Harm's Way" and "Flying Tigers."
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Speaking of The Flying Tigers-Duke as Sq leader-was actually portraying Sq leader David Lee "Tex" Hill. I actually met the B.Gen at a gun show in San Antonio about 14 years ago-and have his autograph on a pix with him next to his "tiger." :D
 
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John Wayne was a very impatient shooting instructor in El Dorado. He has James Caan shoot at a cactus using his famous Colt, he misses, and Duke says, "'Fraid it's hopeless.", then they go buy him the shotgun. Just one shot!!
My all time favorite guy in the film is Christopher George as Nels McClowd". The slick two gun packing gunslinger who Duke respected but killed anyway. He was also great in Chisum. My favorite guy in that movie followed by Glen Corbett as Pat Garrett.
 
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