OT - Favorite John Wayne Movies

[AzHusky]

In Monument Valley where the movie "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" was filmed, there is a hotel called Goulding's Lodge. The hotel has the cabin that was used as the living quarters for John Wayne's character in the movie. They also have a movie theater where a different John Wayne movie is shown each night. Harry Goulding showed John Ford pictures of the Valley which lead Ford to film his Academy Award winning film "Stagecoach" there. Along with 6 other John Wayne westerns.

 

[Aluminny69]

Sad Story

John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and 90 other people developed cancer after filming “The Conqueror” near a nuclear testing site​

The producers of the film The Conqueror, which was released in 1956, decided to shoot the film near the remote town of St. George in the Utah desert, merely a hundred miles away from the infamous Nevada Test Site.


Approximately 100 nuclear bombs of various yields were detonated at the Nevada Test Site throughout the 1950s.

Out of 220 people who worked on the production of The Conqueror, 92 died of cancer, including Wayne, Hayward, and Armendáriz.

 

[itsasport]

In Harm's Way, Yellow River and the Shootist.

 

[HuskyNan]

Sad Story

John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and 90 other people developed cancer after filming “The Conqueror” near a nuclear testing site​

The producers of the film The Conqueror, which was released in 1956, decided to shoot the film near the remote town of St. George in the Utah desert, merely a hundred miles away from the infamous Nevada Test Site.


Approximately 100 nuclear bombs of various yields were detonated at the Nevada Test Site throughout the 1950s.

Out of 220 people who worked on the production of The Conqueror, 92 died of cancer, including Wayne, Hayward, and Armendáriz.

Wayne smoked 7 packs of cigarettes a day and was a known alcoholic.

 

[Steve UConn72]

Just watched some of "The Horse Soldiers" (1959) co-starring William Holden, this morning on one of the Western channels. That was a good one, and was based on a actual Union raid behind Confederate lines in 1863.

 

[Aluminny69]

Wayne smoked 7 packs of cigarettes a day and was a known alcoholic.

From the article,

Wayne’s sons Patrick and Michael, who visited the set in 1954 and played with Geiger counters around contaminated rocks, both developed benign tumors that had to be surgically removed.


Susan Hayward won her first and only Academy Award in 1958, two years after The Conqueror was released, for her role as a death row inmate named Barbara Graham in the influential film I Want to Live!. Fifteen years later, her career abruptly ended when she was diagnosed with brain cancer, which also likely resulted from exposure to high levels of radiation. She died 1975, at the age of 57.

 

[baggerbob]

As a HUGE John Wayne I love all the above movies!
Some that have not been mentioned yet:
Back to Bataan
The Longest Day
They Were Expendable
Operation Pacific
Flying Leathernecks
The Long Voyage Home
Flying Tigers
Fighting Seabees
Big Jim McLain
Trouble Along The Way
Island In The Sky
Hondo
The High And The Mighty
Wings Of Eagles
The Alamo
The Comancheros
Hatari
How the West Was Won
The Sons Of Katie Elder
The Green Berets
Hellfighters
McQ
The Shootist (his last right before he died)

Love the list, The High and the Mighty has always been one of my favorites.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

As a HUGE John Wayne I love all the above movies!
Some that have not been mentioned yet:
Back to Bataan
The Longest Day
They Were Expendable
Operation Pacific
Flying Leathernecks
The Long Voyage Home
Flying Tigers
Fighting Seabees
Big Jim McLain
Trouble Along The Way
Island In The Sky
Hondo
The High And The Mighty
Wings Of Eagles
The Alamo
The Comancheros
Hatari
How the West Was Won
The Sons Of Katie Elder
The Green Berets
Hellfighters
McQ
The Shootist (his last right before he died)

Thank you……I’m glad someone finally mentioned “Hatari”, my other favorites the great WW2 flick “They Were Expendable “ and also starring Robert Montgomery in maybe his best film as also was uncredited as director because John Ford was taken ill during filming, “The Searchers”, “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”, “Red River”, and of course John Fords great masterpiece “The Quiet Man”.

 

[Steelerone]

Again, most actors or actresses would be eustatic with two or three hit movies during their career. How about one a year for thirty years.

 

[Conn-yak]

The Alamo
The Cowboys
The Fighting Seabees
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Shootist
Reap the Wild Wind
Wake of the Red Witch

 

[HuskyNan]

Again, most actors or actresses would be eustatic with two or three hit movies during their career. How about one a year for thirty years.

Maybe Meryl Streep would know.

 

[Steelerone]

Meryl Streep came along twenty or more years after John Wayne and during that time he was still making hit movies that people watch today. Merly Streep was a great actress. John Wayne is a legend.

 

[CajunHusky]

The Horse Soldiers
The Sea Chase
Blood Alley