Tag: cowboy
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Rowdy Yates’ Legacy: Clint Eastwood’s Unspoken Longing for Ranch Life Post-Rawhide
Rawhide was one of the many early TV Westerns that inspired viewers all over the country. The series also helped Clint Eastwood become one of the most famous Western cowboys of the ’60s. For many years, Eastwood was a mainstay in the Western world. Unlike a few other TV Western stars, Clint Eastwood didn’t want…
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From Stardom to Scrubs: John Wayne’s Clash with Jones and the Fallout That Followed
Film executives were still trying to figure out how to mould the young star when they threw him into a musical. John Wayne, the iconic Hollywood star whose films like How the West Was Won and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon can be streamed on BBC iPlayer, was once left so embarrassed by one of…
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John Wayne’s Hidden Shame: The 3 Western Movies That Left Him Red-Faced
John Wayne was a towering figure of Hollywood’s Golden Age in the ’40s and ’50s, so it’s hard to imagine The Duke being embarrassed by making these three Western movies. In the ’20s, Wayne started out making pre-Code movies that capitalized on his college football days such as The Brown of Harvard but wanted to…
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Cinematic Crescendo: Clint Eastwood’s Surprise Sonata in 1993’s ‘In the Line of Fire’—A Hidden Musical Gem
While his skills as an actor and director are quite familiar and widely celebrated, Clint Eastwood coolly flexes one of his lesser-known talents in the 1993 action thriller In the Line of Fire. In the movie, Eastwood plays former Social Security Agent Frank Horrigan, a man tormented by the guilt of failing to protect John…
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John Wayne – Marlon Brando’s Fashion Advice Leaves Dean Martin in Rio Bravo’s Cowboy Chaos
It’s important not to mix up the 1959 John Wayne film “Rio Bravo” with the 1966 John Wayne film “El Dorado.” As cinephile Chilli Palmer (John Travolta) points out in the 1995 film “Get Shorty,” Dean Martin played the drunk in “Rio Bravo,” while Robert Mitchum played the drunk in “El Dorado.” Basically the same…
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Going against John Wayne’s ideology: The Untold Story of How Henry Fonda Became a Vicious Force in Leone’s Cinematic Western Odyssey
Yes, we’re talking about Henry Fonda as Frank. For over three decades leading up to Once Upon A Time In The West, Henry Fonda had been playing the strong, stately American hero on screen. In John Ford’s My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, and Drums Along The Mohawk, he played stern, stoic, but nevertheless principled Western…
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Beyond the Leading Role: The Westerns That Shaped Clint Eastwood’s Career, Even Without Him in the Spotlight
Two of Clint Eastwood’s favorite Westerns had a big impact on his own work in the genre. The Western genre was waning in popularity by the time Eastwood became a movie star in the 1960s, but his work in the Dollars movie trilogy or Hang ‘Em High helped keep “Oaters” alive in the years that…
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Cinematic Coincidences: The Drunk, The Duke, and the Confusion Between ‘Rio Bravo’ and ‘El Dorado’
It’s important not to mix up the 1959 John Wayne film “Rio Bravo” with the 1966 John Wayne film “El Dorado.” As cinephile Chilli Palmer (John Travolta) points out in the 1995 film “Get Shorty,” Dean Martin played the drunk in “Rio Bravo,” while Robert Mitchum played the drunk in “El Dorado.” Basically the same…
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From 175 to 100: Discover John Wayne’s Most Beloved Films That Stood the Test of Time
Before he was one of Hollywood’s most bankable and iconic Western movie stars, actor John Wayne was an Iowa-born USC lineman named Marion Morrison. Morrison lost his football scholarship due to a shoulder injury from a bodysurfing accident and landed a job in 1927 as a prop guy on the Fox Studios lot. That gig…
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The Western Movies Clint Eastwood Admires, Even Though He Didn’t Star in Them – Surprising and enlightening
Two of Clint Eastwood’s favorite Westerns had a big impact on his own work in the genre. The Western genre was waning in popularity by the time Eastwood became a movie star in the 1960s, but his work in the Dollars movie trilogy or Hang ‘Em High helped keep “Oaters” alive in the years that…