Ms. Audrey and I just watched John Wayne in THE SEARCHERS, with Natale Wood and Vera Miles. Such awful acting! I had to laugh at places. Anyone with another opinion? Hombre del Bosque
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There's quite a few of his movies that aren't his best and the "Searchers" are at the top of that list. What's the one with Rock Hudson in it....that's a bad one too.
I do like "True Grit" & "Fort Apache" to name a few of his good ones.
This is just my opinion of course.
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Well The Searchers,Rio Bravo and True Grit are my favorites. As for The Searchers, for bad acting ol'JW does a fine job when not telling of finding lucy's body. But as they say, one man's junk is another man's treasure... Andy
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"The Shootist", "Hondo", "Stagecoach", and "Rio Bravo" are my favorite John Wayne movies. I never cared much for "The Searchers". A real early one of his that I like was, I think, called "The Long Voyage Home". JW played a young Swedish merchant sailor in that one. Having been a sailor myself, I tend to like nautical movies. The "Wake of the Red Witch" was another one of JW's movies that I like. That one copies a book by Joseph Conrad. Conrad is one of my favorite authors.
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I do like his war movies but a more period correct one would be the "Alamo" which is great and "Who Shot Liberty Valance" even if James Steward was the star JW and Lee Marvin were great in it!
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"Who Shot Liberty Valance", "The Shootist", "True Grit" and "The Alamo" are among my favorites; heck, I've never seen one of Duke's movies I DIDN'T like. I have to say, though that there's something of richness and magic in The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, The Shootist and The Alamo. Those three are in a league of their own. Of course Clint's The Unforgiven and (not JW) Quigley Down Under are no. 1 and 2 followed by (not JW but...) Shane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
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I do like the Searchers, it's near the top of my JW favorites. And I especially like the parts played by Ward Bond and Hank Worden. "Thank you kindly..." Shoot sharp, Mike
Braningan, was that where he was a chicago cop who went to England? And the English chief kept trying to get his revolver? Hombre del Bosque
BTW, Saturday we watched Jimmy Stewart in A BEND IN THE RIVER. Sure did kill a lot of people trying to get food to the settlement for the winter. Did any of those people ever think about hunting for food? It was interesting to see Harry Morgan in an early role, and a bad guy to boot.
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