Chisum was John Wayne's first movie of the 1970s, the Western legend's final decade. Having had a cancerous lung removed a few years earlier, Duke had to rely on an oxygen mask and hide his ...
As a result, Wayne's sudden rise to fame quickly plummeted. Any hopes that the Duke had of becoming a sure-fire movie star after such a big production — which John Ford was rumored to have ...
John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later. The movie cost $1.6 million, making it one of the most expensive Westerns at that point in ...
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins. A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a ...