Tag: Laurence Olivier
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Brannigan’s Secrets: John Wayne’s Battle with Heart Issues and the Unlikely Appearance of Laurence Olivier
John Wayne’s last cop movie was the London-based Brannigan, where the exhausted veteran star struggled through production with a series of health problems. Having starred in 1974’s McQ, John Wayne played another tough cop in the 1975 action thriller, Brannigan, opposite Richard Attenborough. Set in London, the movie saw Duke’s Chicago detective Lieutenant Jim Brannigan…