There will never be a man like him again. I got to meet him in Panama while I was in the Army at the VFW close to Panama City. He was fishing on his boat with Ward Bond off the bay. He set up the bar for us GI's with free drinks. I loved that man.
Harry Carey Jr.'s homage to his dear friend and mentor, the Duke, John Wayne. And it is a tribute so warm, so personal, so lovingly observed and so deeply felt as only a true friend could deliver
harry carey jr talking about the duke! the shootist is also one of my very very favorites...all the parts played by veteran actors to the tee! didn't know someone like harry carey would cry in those scenes...lived near carson city for many years. the real deal!
A highly intelligent, vastly underrated actor; a man of exquisitely refined artistic and literary tastes who collected ancient Asian art and was a devotee of the English Romantic poets. When Dick Cavett arrived to interview Duke on the set of "The Shootist", he found him at the kitchen table whistling a tune from a Noel Coward musical. When an astonished Cavett relayed this story to Woody Allen, Woody said "That's because he's not a cowboy, he's an actor." Even his reputation as an implacable, combative reactionary is false. He was close friends with some of Hollywood's legendary liberals and homosexuals, including (respectively) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Laurence Harvey and Rock Hudson. Even Jane Fonda, who grew up in the shadow of the pokers games with John Ford, her father Henry Fonda and Wayne, loved and respected the Duke. While John Wayne the legend is eternal as the hills, the private John Wayne, the man who gave fortunes to children's charities in Mexico and the States, is just as heroic an fascinating. Not a perfect man, husband or father, but a real man.
I'm so glad you wrote that, esp about Jane Fonda and Rock Hudson. He was old fashioned to be sure, but that was just his generation. My dad always said he despised homosexuals and yet when his golf buddy turned out to be gay, he just bashfully said " well he's a good golfer and honest man, that's all I care about". Duke was the same way with Rick Hudson, he admired his work ethic and that the man's private life was not his business. These old "warhorses" talked tough, but most were kind, gentle and honest. In Michael Munn's book, he stated that Duke believed in free speech, not only for himself but also to those opposed to him.
26 May today Happy Birthday to John Wayne. I found out for my GoodReads profile, I add "born today" for fun. TCM Cowboy Legends DVD review on my blogspot. This tribute is more to narrator Harry Carey, but at least there are clips from the movies with titles and years onscreen, his voice, and off-screen stills. Thanks for the post. Three cheers for the Duke of the West.
JOHN WAYNE..WAS ME AND MY DADS HERO ...WE WENT TO ALL HIS MOVIES,WATCHED THE DUKE ON TV WHEN EVER DUKE WAS ON....A TRUE TOUGH GUY JUST LIKE MY DAD...MY DAD WOULD CALL AN SAY T.J. JOHN WAYNE IS ON A CERTAIN CHANNEL TONIGHT,WE WOULD BE WATCHING LATER...MY DAD WAS A TOUGH MAN JUST LIKE THE DUKE,AL CAMPANA,HE PLAYED FOR THE MONSTERS OF THE MID WAY CHICAGO BEARS...RUNNING BACK AND D BACK..WE SPENT MANY A GREAT TIME WATCHING THE DUKE,MY DAD LOVES RIO GRANDE ..SADLY THEY ARE BOTH GONE..GREAT MEN AND GREAT TIMES THAT WILL NEVER BE AGAIN..I BELIEVE MY DAD AN DUKE ARE TOGETHER IN HEAVEN RIDING THE RANGE UP THERE TAKING BOUT GREAT MOVIES AN FOOTBALL...I MISS THOSE DAYS VERY MUCH..BUT THE DUKE BROUGHT ME AN MY DAD VERY CLOSE IN LIFE..GOD BLESS DUKE JOHN WAYNE AND MY DAD..SOME DAY WE WILL ALL BE TOGETHER LAUGHING AN TAKING BOUT GREAT TIMES...
It's weird how so many father and sons ( me included) usually first fought ( "dad John Wayne's corny) over his movies to bonding over them. My Dad also was much like Duke, tough as nails, old fashioned, and heart of gold.
Duke is What Every Man Wants to be & Every Man try’s 2Be.. From his Loyalty to his Family His Love for his Country...How did We get so Far Away from these SIMPLE BELIEFS.. these are Not Hard But Simple But Some How We Can’t Even figure Out the Simple Stuff in Life..My favorite Duke Wayne..
Did U ever see the Commercial With Him Right After 9-11.. they Only should the commercial Like 3/4 times but if u get a chance look it Up & Just type “John Wayne 9/11 Commercials.”
John Wayne towers over cinema in the same way that Beethoven towers over classical music. A true Hollywood giant who's films are timeless. My favourite ? The Searchers - or maybe The Comancheros- or The War Wagon- or The Alamo - the list goes on !
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 I see your still repeating yourself thicko, get a fuckin life, oh I noticed you have improved your spelling and grammar, it's never too late even for a THICK MICK. HA HA HA.
When you watch the Shootist scene, remember Lauren Bacall lost Humprey Bogart to cancer, and here John Wayne the actor is dying of cancer. More real than acting as they say good-bye and talk about Fall Spring. ...also think or friends or relatives that died of cancer, and to call it his birthday and he is going to go into town. ...What you see on film, Bacall and The Duke were living in real life on the set. Those looks close to tears, that is real my friends. His birthday or his death day, what they call a Fall Spring.
The cancer had not come back at this point. He had pneumonia, and the altitude was bad for his one lung, but it wouldn't be until late the next year for the stomach, intestines, and spine cancer contracted because of The Conqueror's irradiated locations to strike. ..Joe
When he was filming the movie The Shootist he was in a lot of pain how the world he made it through I don't think any of us will ever know. In my own opinion he's still the greatest actor of all time
I am retired from the media industry and had the privilege of writing and producing many commercials and ads that included tributes to John Wayne. I not only grew up with his films, starting in the 50's, I had the pleasure of researching many aspects of his life. 36 years later, I am still learning new and exciting adventures of "The Duke's" life. He was one-of-a-kind. There will never be another hero of the "Big Screen". Patti Libert. Stay tuned to my RUclips channel for the upcoming tribute to "The Last Ride.". 🐎
Anyone who loved "The Duke" should check out The John Wayne Cancer Foundation. I am privileged to be a member of both. The John Wayne Fan Club, as well as the John Wayne Cancer Foundation. His children are all on the Board of his Foundation, and are carrying on his legacy of courage and "True Grit" ......God Bless.
@@edmonddantes3640 I have every right to say what I want if you don't like it that's your problem not mine John Wayne had Star power that was handed to him and not as a greater actor as he was made out to be even one of his directors confessed he was not a great actor he made some movies that was entertaining the scripts were way better than he was he did not have the ability to change according to the role I don't care what you said and you better slow your roll no one's talking directly to you I would keep my mouth shut if I was you
I met Mr. Carey and his wife in Toronto a few years ago where he also signed his book "In the Company Of Heroes" for me. Harry was also a recovered alcoholic and helped so many. He also told me Duke should have died with three Oscars: The Shootist, The Searchers, and She Wire A Yellow Ribbon. He liked True Grit but felt Duke was better in other films. I personally think that he was also great in Red River And The Cowboys.
Share something about Sammy Davis Jr. with all of y'all. Arvo Ojala was the greatest quick draw instructor in Hollywood especially in the 50s and 60s when Western TV shows were in their prime.. There was not one starring actor that he didn't train. James Garner, Hugh O'Brien, Robert Culp, Richard Boone, Clint Walker James Arness ( MOF that is Avala getting shot by Matt Dillon in the shows opening) you name the actor, he taught him. He also developed the quick draw holsters you see used that are not historically correct but allow the user to pull his pistol without the cylinder getting snagged on the holster. Ojala was asked once by a reporter who was the quickest learner and the most proficient student he ever taught. Ojala replied without question it was Sammy Davis Jr. He trained Sammy for a couple of The Rifleman episodes. ME TV has the program on week days and you should check for those episodes and you'll see why Ojala was so profuse in his praise. I recall an interview with Sammy Davis where he said that he still used to do gun tricks at parties and even in his dressing room prior to performing in Las Vegas as it relaxed him. Just thought y'all might find this interesting. I sure did.
Just saw HONDO tonight, ( a little bit, at least, ) till they got to the part where the Indian fought John Wayne and it was raining, and the family went in the house and heard a dog scream, and it showed an Indian on horseback, he had just put a spear through the family dog, and it was laying on the ground in front of the house, dead. It was so shocking and sad. MY GOD, if Id known that was coming, i wouldn't have watched the show. I watch the old westerns because , yes, they're violent, but not like today's crime, but seeing that dog killed, though it may be "oh well, thats life", no, I couldn't stand seeing it , and turned the channel. That was a TERRIBLE thing to include in the movie, JUST FOR EFFECT. IT was sad and horrifying, No reason to put it in the movie AT ALL. It added nothing to the storyline except to depict Indians as savage killers, which I doubt that they ALL were. I don't know. I just was not ready for that shock today. Very sad, to see an innocent animal, though it probably was a prop, still, the idea was there, the realism, the scream of the dog, how horrible to hear. If the old west was like the movies I see, Im glad I didn't live back then. What a horrible way of life.
@@loischrisvera he wasn't even a good actor or a good person did you try the PIN racism on Elvis Presley but that turned out to be a rumor and a lie but John Wayne was really racist and not very talented as people make him out to be thank you have a good day
John Wayne.....American. When "American" wasn't a dirty word, used by haters to try and destroy. I am an American, who loves John Wayne and many like him. The haters can do what they want, I don't care. Good will come out in the end, despite the haters efforts.
Michael Houghton, no it isn't weird. It means that you put aside politics and enjoy the talent someone else has. I know I get caught up in that myself, sometimes (getting upset over an entertainer and his/her politics). There are just some that one can transcend such things. Wayne is one of those.
I'm just like several of the people who have commented on here before me. They loved this man, just like me. But perhaps one thing that I have that some don't is, while my father was just like theirs and they too loved John Wayne. My Dad gave me the middle name Wayne. Years afterward, when I was grown. I asked him. Dad, where did my middle name come from? Because there was no reason for this, as no one in my family had that name or had any correlation to that name. And he, in no uncertain terms told me that he gave me that name for John Wayne. I asked him, why? He told me that if it hadn't been for my mother's objections, and if he could've had his way, my name would've been John Wayne.
I named my oldest son Jacob, or as he's known, Jake, after the Duke's portrayal of "Jacob McCandles", or, as we all know, "Big Jake". That movie has become mine, my son's, and now his 3 girls' favorite movie. It's really cute whenever it comes on, they all 3 say to my son, "Daddy, your movie is coming on, you know, the one Grandpa Daryl named you after". I could watch that movie 24 hours a day, and never get tired of it. LONG LIVE THE DUKE!!
@@normancurragh768 don't send no bulshit over here before you get your feelings hurt your mouth is flapping in the Wind and you ain't saying nothing nobody wants to hear your opinion or what you think step off with that bulshit
@@normancurragh768 my writing can be improved but your Character defects in your racist hateful hero phony will never be able to be changed you're one of those wannabe tough guys keep trying
John Wayne not the greatest actor but made a considerable amount of great movies and Wayne had a presence about him where even if he wasn't playing the goodie in a particular film you still warmed to his character. I would put The Sands of Iwa Jima in my Favourite Wayne films and The Sons of Katie elder.
Definitely NOT the same TCM, unlike the warm, genial Robert Osborne, the woke hosts of the present condescendingly lecture you about race, sexuality, like the viewer is too stupid to make up their own minds about how the past was not always perfect…..just like now.
"William Manchester ultimately found himself in the Pacific Ocean theater. Initially he joined the Officer Candidate School but dropped out before receiving a commission. After attaining the rank of corporal, he was sent to Guadalcanal in 1944 for further training. He served in Pacific War's final campaign on the island of Okinawa, was severely wounded on June 5, 1945, ....He served in the Marine Corps, attaining the rank of sergeant. He was shot in the kneecap on Okinawa's Sugar Loaf Hill but left the military hospital when he heard his regiment was moving on to Oruku peninsula. Wounded by mortar fire, he also was shot by a Japanese soldier near his heart. He was a recipient of the Purple Heart. Manchester's wartime experiences formed the basis for his very personal account of the Pacific Theater, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. In this memoir, Manchester uses some personal anecdotes from his service on Okinawa in his descriptions of battles on Guadalcanal and Saipan. In 2001, President George W. Bush presented Manchester with the National Humanities Medal. Manchester is also the recipient of the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, among other awards". - [pasted from Wikipedia and Washington Post articles] Manchester was wounded, left the hospital to return to the fight, and was wounded twice more, very nearly dying. After the war he became a renowned journalist, author, historian. And this is what the war hero, REAL war hero William Manchester thought of John Wayne: “After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing [John] Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there.... Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit-and 10-gallon hat, bandanna, checkered shirt, two pistols, chaps, boots and spurs. He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!' He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing.“This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren't going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.”
+cruelsuit1 I have just about everything William Manchester has written, he is one of the finest historians this country has ever produced, I wish I could've met him and mourn his passing. Manchester had the right to make that assertion about Wayne but what have YOU ever done? It's always struck me that the same type of person that trots out this tired story is using it to defend not only his relativistic political views but also unconsciously or not, his own lack of moral and physical courage.
I'm going to call bullshit. Do some research: the Duke went once to Australia to visit troops, but never Hawaii. That's documented. Also, when Duke visited troops he always wore Khakis, never western garb. And Duke has NEVER worn a "10-gallon hat" ..Joe
@@edmonddantes3640 saying John Wayne was a great actor is like saying Michael Jackson had a great singing range and he could see more Styles than Elvis Presley people know that's not true
America will long want to remember John Wayne but not Vietnam. Was James Cagney ever a gangster? JW was a stunt rider before fame. Great horseman. Owned a ranch.
Do not use the words war hero and John Wayne in the same sentence. Jimmy Stewart, sure because he was in real combat. As the Drive-By Truckers put it in their dismantling of him, "I never saw John Wayne on the Sands of Iwo Jima." The real sands
I don't know who the freak DBT are but l wonder if they ever served in the military? As a Vet , l can recall only one fellow Vet ever speaking negative about John Wayne. I wish l had a dollar for everytime some dingleberry would tell me, " Well, if we were in a WAR, l'd join". Yeah.......right. Only one percent of Americans now ever serve in the military. I think the majority of those who so intensely dislike him have more of a problem about what his characters stood for , his politics and use the excuse that he never served as a front. The reasons he didn't are out there, take'em or leave . I'll go along with Harry Carey Jr. and judge the man as a whole.
john wayne was a lousy actor and phony could not even use his real name when lntruduse in film a woodén actor no range mitchum was bettẻr heck even Elvis had more acting ability then john wayne you can see that in his early films Jailhouse Rock King creole flaming star wild in the country john wayne so overrated
Made me cry! I LOVE John Wayne like I LOVE my country!!!
Wayne should've won an Oscar for 'The Cowboys.' His last scene in that film will make anyone on earth weep.
There will never be a man like him again. I got to meet him in Panama while I was in the Army at the VFW close to Panama City. He was fishing on his boat with Ward Bond off the bay. He set up the bar for us GI's with free drinks. I loved that man.
wow what an honor!
John Wayne is my very favorite. Love all his movies, my favorite is The Alamo since I am a Texan.
Fabulous piece of film!!!
John made a DIFFERENCE! AMAZING guy !
'' DUKE '' Will Never Be Forgotten, He Is In Hollywood History And Will Always Be !!
Well spoken from the heart sir. Thank you kindly.
I was always, and still am, a fan of Harry Carey Jr's characters. Always very likable.
Thanks for this. I agree Wayne should have had an oscar for The Shootist.
Harry Carey Jr.'s homage to his dear friend and mentor, the Duke, John Wayne. And it is a tribute so warm, so personal, so lovingly observed and so deeply felt as only a true friend could deliver
You should be a writer, eloquent seems an understatement to what I just read. Thank you....
The Searchers was a classic l still watch it ever chance I get.
Sso beautiful tribute thank you Harry Cary xx
THIS TCM IS TREMENDOUS!
4:52 when he says good bye... I cry every time. Since my mother's passing I can't enjoy the Duke's films like I used too. I love you mom
harry carey jr talking about the duke! the shootist is also one of my very very favorites...all the parts played by veteran actors to the tee! didn't know someone like harry carey would cry in those scenes...lived near carson city for many years. the real deal!
A highly intelligent, vastly underrated actor; a man of exquisitely refined artistic and literary tastes who collected ancient Asian art and was a devotee of the English Romantic poets. When Dick Cavett arrived to interview Duke on the set of "The Shootist", he found him at the kitchen table whistling a tune from a Noel Coward musical. When an astonished Cavett relayed this story to Woody Allen, Woody said "That's because he's not a cowboy, he's an actor." Even his reputation as an implacable, combative reactionary is false. He was close friends with some of Hollywood's legendary liberals and homosexuals, including (respectively) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Laurence Harvey and Rock Hudson. Even Jane Fonda, who grew up in the shadow of the pokers games with John Ford, her father Henry Fonda and Wayne, loved and respected the Duke. While John Wayne the legend is eternal as the hills, the private John Wayne, the man who gave fortunes to children's charities in Mexico and the States, is just as heroic an fascinating. Not a perfect man, husband or father, but a real man.
Beautifully stated.
I'm so glad you wrote that, esp about Jane Fonda and Rock Hudson. He was old fashioned to be sure, but that was just his generation. My dad always said he despised homosexuals and yet when his golf buddy turned out to be gay, he just bashfully said " well he's a good golfer and honest man, that's all I care about". Duke was the same way with Rick Hudson, he admired his work ethic and that the man's private life was not his business. These old "warhorses" talked tough, but most were kind, gentle and honest. In Michael Munn's book, he stated that Duke believed in free speech, not only for himself but also to those opposed to him.
oops! I meant Rock Hudson ( damn auto correct!)
jomirza thank you for this...
we will always remember and love john wayne
26 May today Happy Birthday to John Wayne. I found out for my GoodReads profile, I add "born today" for fun. TCM Cowboy Legends DVD review on my blogspot. This tribute is more to narrator Harry Carey, but at least there are clips from the movies with titles and years onscreen, his voice, and off-screen stills. Thanks for the post. Three cheers for the Duke of the West.
He was a great American and true Patriot - he loved this country.
Harry Carey was a great actor also.
JOHN WAYNE..WAS ME AND MY DADS HERO ...WE WENT TO ALL HIS MOVIES,WATCHED THE DUKE ON TV WHEN EVER DUKE WAS ON....A TRUE TOUGH GUY JUST LIKE MY DAD...MY DAD WOULD CALL AN SAY T.J. JOHN WAYNE IS ON A CERTAIN CHANNEL TONIGHT,WE WOULD BE WATCHING LATER...MY DAD WAS A TOUGH MAN JUST LIKE THE DUKE,AL CAMPANA,HE PLAYED FOR THE MONSTERS OF THE MID WAY CHICAGO BEARS...RUNNING BACK AND D BACK..WE SPENT MANY A GREAT TIME WATCHING THE DUKE,MY DAD LOVES RIO GRANDE ..SADLY THEY ARE BOTH GONE..GREAT MEN AND GREAT TIMES THAT WILL NEVER BE AGAIN..I BELIEVE MY DAD AN DUKE ARE TOGETHER IN HEAVEN RIDING THE RANGE UP THERE TAKING BOUT GREAT MOVIES AN FOOTBALL...I MISS THOSE DAYS VERY MUCH..BUT THE DUKE BROUGHT ME AN MY DAD VERY CLOSE IN LIFE..GOD BLESS DUKE JOHN WAYNE AND MY DAD..SOME DAY WE WILL ALL BE TOGETHER LAUGHING AN TAKING BOUT GREAT TIMES...
It's weird how so many father and sons ( me included) usually first fought ( "dad John Wayne's corny) over his movies to bonding over them. My Dad also was much like Duke, tough as nails, old fashioned, and heart of gold.
Tj Campana and
Tj Campana What a touching story...all caps! bless you. yeah, my husband is riding along side them.
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Stop shouting
John Wayne is and will always be my favorite actor
He certainly deserved an Oscar for the "The Searchers", his best movie. And he deserved an Oscar for the "The Shootist" too.
Same here! He was the man!
Rick Brown : Mine too.👌👌👌👌.
Me too.🙏🇺🇸💪
John Wayne is my hero loved the man xx
he was great i love him rest in peace
Oscar for 'the searchers'
I got to say he wasn't the best actor but he was a Great American and I do love every one of his movies.
John Wayne shared the same birth date as my Father. They were the heroes of my life and I love and miss them both.
Duke is What Every Man Wants to be & Every Man try’s 2Be.. From his Loyalty to his Family His Love for his Country...How did We get so Far Away from these SIMPLE BELIEFS.. these are Not Hard But Simple But Some How We Can’t Even figure Out the Simple Stuff in Life..My favorite Duke Wayne..
he is a great actor and a great american....
John Wayne the greatest of the great. I love his movies even today and I watch them over and over.
love The Searches( rest in peace) 😢😢😢
The people who dislike this have no soul...
John Wayne should have won many Oscars!
Robert Mitchum was better
I have always thought that John Wayne should have won an Oscar for The Quiet Man and The Sands of Iwo Jima.
Robert Mitchum was better
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 Ah, just fuck off JOHN!!
And for The searchers and The shootist
Did U ever see the Commercial With Him Right After 9-11.. they Only should the commercial Like 3/4 times but if u get a chance look it Up & Just type “John Wayne 9/11 Commercials.”
There will never be another John Wayne. He was bigger than life & extremely patriotic. Something we don't see enough of today.
Robert Mitchum was much better way better actor cooler person better persona
I don`t think apologizing is a sign of weakness...but John Wayne is and will always be my favourite actor....
In the old west it was though
Words once spoken, can't be unheard, they cant be taken back. You meant it when you said it!
My hero!!!!
John Wayne towers over cinema in the same way that Beethoven towers over classical music.
A true Hollywood giant who's films are timeless. My favourite ? The Searchers - or maybe The Comancheros- or The War Wagon- or The Alamo - the list goes on !
Robert Mitchum was much better than John Wayne
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 I see your still repeating yourself thicko, get a fuckin life, oh I noticed you have improved your spelling and grammar, it's never too late even for a THICK MICK. HA HA HA.
When you watch the Shootist scene, remember Lauren Bacall lost Humprey Bogart to cancer, and here John Wayne the actor is dying of cancer. More real than acting as they say good-bye and talk about Fall Spring. ...also think or friends or relatives that died of cancer, and to call it his birthday and he is going to go into town. ...What you see on film, Bacall and The Duke were living in real life on the set. Those looks close to tears, that is real my friends. His birthday or his death day, what they call a Fall Spring.
kevincrashkelly beautiful...
The cancer had not come back at this point. He had pneumonia, and the altitude was bad for his one lung, but it wouldn't be until late the next year for the stomach, intestines, and spine cancer contracted because of The Conqueror's irradiated locations to strike.
..Joe
When he was filming the movie The Shootist he was in a lot of pain how the world he made it through I don't think any of us will ever know. In my own opinion he's still the greatest actor of all time
Didn't know that..Ingrid Bergman died on her 67th birthday in 1982.
@Bila Hora OK smart ass.
I am retired from the media industry and had the privilege of writing and producing many commercials and ads that included tributes to John Wayne. I not only grew up with his films, starting in the 50's, I had the pleasure of researching many aspects of his life. 36 years later, I am still learning new and exciting adventures of "The Duke's" life. He was one-of-a-kind. There will never be another hero of the "Big Screen". Patti Libert. Stay tuned to my RUclips channel for the upcoming tribute to "The Last Ride.". 🐎
Patti Libert and
Anyone who loved "The Duke" should check out The John Wayne Cancer Foundation. I am privileged to be a member of both. The John Wayne Fan Club, as well as the John Wayne Cancer Foundation. His children are all on the Board of his Foundation, and are carrying on his legacy of courage and "True Grit" ......God Bless.
Patti Libert oh- missed it...
I agree....the man was a legend.
robert mitchum was bettẻr
John Wayne was not nearly as good as Robert Mitchum
No matter what his political views he surely was The KING Of Movies.
Love ol' Duke.....
Often imitated. Never beaten
Robert Mitchum was better
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 yes, you've stated that twice before, it's like you think people don't listen to you.....l can see why.
@@edmonddantes3640 I have every right to say what I want if you don't like it that's your problem not mine John Wayne had Star power that was handed to him and not as a greater actor as he was made out to be even one of his directors confessed he was not a great actor he made some movies that was entertaining the scripts were way better than he was he did not have the ability to change according to the role I don't care what you said and you better slow your roll no one's talking directly to you I would keep my mouth shut if I was you
R.I.P john wayne never be forgotten
I met Mr. Carey and his wife in Toronto a few years ago where he also signed his book "In the Company Of Heroes" for me. Harry was also a recovered alcoholic and helped so many. He also told me Duke should have died with three Oscars: The Shootist, The Searchers, and She Wire A Yellow Ribbon. He liked True Grit but felt Duke was better in other films. I personally think that he was also great in Red River And The Cowboys.
+knight44441 Yeah, you're right. Sammy Davis Jr would have been alot better in those westerns than John Wayne.
Share something about Sammy Davis Jr. with all of y'all.
Arvo Ojala was the greatest quick draw instructor in Hollywood especially in the 50s and 60s when Western TV shows were in their prime.. There was not one starring actor that he didn't train. James Garner, Hugh O'Brien, Robert Culp, Richard Boone, Clint Walker James Arness ( MOF that is Avala getting shot by Matt Dillon in the shows opening) you name the actor, he taught him. He also developed the quick draw holsters you see used that are not historically correct but allow the user to pull his pistol without the cylinder getting snagged on the holster.
Ojala was asked once by a reporter who was the quickest learner and the most proficient student he ever taught.
Ojala replied without question it was Sammy Davis Jr. He trained Sammy for a couple of The Rifleman episodes. ME TV has the program on week days and you should check for those episodes and you'll see why Ojala was so profuse in his praise. I recall an interview with Sammy Davis where he said that he still used to do gun tricks at parties and even in his dressing room prior to performing in Las Vegas as it relaxed him.
Just thought y'all might find this interesting. I sure did.
Tommy Petersen and
Tommy Petersen yeah, i hated Bruce Dern for most of his career. then i saw the cowboys again as an adult, and realized why! he killed john wayne!
Don't forget The Man Who Shoot Liberty Valance.
Just saw HONDO tonight, ( a little bit, at least, ) till they got to the part where the Indian fought John Wayne and it was raining, and the family went in the house and heard a dog scream, and it showed an Indian on horseback, he had just put a spear through the family dog, and it was laying on the ground in front of the house, dead. It was so shocking and sad. MY GOD, if Id known that was coming, i wouldn't have watched the show. I watch the old westerns because , yes, they're violent, but not like today's crime, but seeing that dog killed, though it may be "oh well, thats life", no, I couldn't stand seeing it , and turned the channel. That was a TERRIBLE thing to include in the movie, JUST FOR EFFECT. IT was sad and horrifying, No reason to put it in the movie AT ALL. It added nothing to the storyline except to depict Indians as savage killers, which I doubt that they ALL were. I don't know. I just was not ready for that shock today. Very sad, to see an innocent animal, though it probably was a prop, still, the idea was there, the realism, the scream of the dog, how horrible to hear. If the old west was like the movies I see, Im glad I didn't live back then. What a horrible way of life.
John Wayne is my favorite actor and role model!!
Robert Mitchum was better
John Wayne was a racist! Some role model
@@loischrisvera he wasn't even a good actor or a good person did you try the PIN racism on Elvis Presley but that turned out to be a rumor and a lie but John Wayne was really racist and not very talented as people make him out to be thank you have a good day
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 Not you again ya thick Mick.
@@loischrisvera And what proof do you have ???.
my dad's middle name is wayne and so is mine......I was never told so but I suspect it could have been John Wayne that was and influence somewhere....
THANKS DOOBIE FOR A GREAT TRIBUTE
I loved John Wayne so much I named my daughter John Wayne....lol....joking of course, but I always loved the Duke.
@Raylan Givens Lol....you are correct.
Did they? Was she? What do ya want me to do draw ya a picture?!!!!!!!!!!!Long as you live don't never ask me about that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The man and always a leader and legend
John Wayne.....American. When "American" wasn't a dirty word, used by haters to try and destroy. I am an American, who loves John Wayne and many like him. The haters can do what they want, I don't care. Good will come out in the end, despite the haters efforts.
Michael Houghton, no it isn't weird. It means that you put aside politics and enjoy the talent someone else has. I know I get caught up in that myself, sometimes (getting upset over an entertainer and his/her politics). There are just some that one can transcend such things. Wayne is one of those.
@@michaelhoughton9771 there's liberal and then there's socialist
Do you know john wayne favorite movie was butch cassidy he love that movie he told paul Newman how much he like that movie
I'm just like several of the people who have commented on here before me. They loved this man, just like me. But perhaps one thing that I have that some don't is, while my father was just like theirs and they too loved John Wayne. My Dad gave me the middle name Wayne. Years afterward, when I was grown. I asked him. Dad, where did my middle name come from? Because there was no reason for this, as no one in my family had that name or had any correlation to that name. And he, in no uncertain terms told me that he gave me that name for John Wayne. I asked him, why? He told me that if it hadn't been for my mother's objections, and if he could've had his way, my name would've been John Wayne.
I named my oldest son Jacob, or as he's known, Jake, after the Duke's portrayal of "Jacob McCandles", or, as we all know, "Big Jake". That movie has become mine, my son's, and now his 3 girls' favorite movie. It's really cute whenever it comes on, they all 3 say to my son, "Daddy, your movie is coming on, you know, the one Grandpa Daryl named you after". I could watch that movie 24 hours a day, and never get tired of it. LONG LIVE THE DUKE!!
My brother was named Matt after the character Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke. Always liked James Arness.
CatfishHunter61 Mr. wayne sir...
I cry when I watch the shootist I wonder if he knew he had cancer. It's so sad 😢
Linda... Me too... He just had to know...
He was in remission then . He didn’t know that that would be his last picture.
U get on that horse n get the he'll out of here. Never say ur sorry it's a sign of weakness. Don't worry about the mule just load the wagon
THE DUKE , Nuff said!!
John Wayne was a Great man and a Great actor.
John when is no Robert Mitchum that for sure
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 John,I see your grammar is slipping again, tsk tsk tsk.
@@normancurragh768 don't send no bulshit over here before you get your feelings hurt your mouth is flapping in the Wind and you ain't saying nothing nobody wants to hear your opinion or what you think step off with that bulshit
@@normancurragh768 my writing can be improved but your Character defects in your racist hateful hero phony will never be able to be changed you're one of those wannabe tough guys keep trying
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John Wayne not the greatest actor but made a considerable amount of great movies and Wayne had a presence about him where even if he wasn't playing the goodie in a particular film you still warmed to his character. I would put The Sands of Iwa Jima in my Favourite Wayne films and The Sons of Katie elder.
Robert Mitchum was way better
Any one better? "Not hardly" ;)
What movie was at 0:28
How ironic that your Facebook group declined a tribute to him today on his birthday
TCM cancel culture
Definitely NOT the same TCM, unlike the warm, genial Robert Osborne, the woke hosts of the present condescendingly lecture you about race, sexuality, like the viewer is too stupid to make up their own minds about how the past was not always perfect…..just like now.
What do you want me to do?????? Draw you a picture,????? Long as you live dont you ever ask me!!!!!!!!!!!
He must have gotten better treatment than James Caan.
the roles he plays Robert Mitchum would have done them better Mitchum was way better than John Wayne
"William Manchester ultimately found himself in the Pacific Ocean theater. Initially he joined the Officer Candidate School but dropped out before receiving a commission. After attaining the rank of corporal, he was sent to Guadalcanal in 1944 for further training. He served in Pacific War's final campaign on the island of Okinawa, was severely wounded on June 5, 1945, ....He served in the Marine Corps, attaining the rank of sergeant. He was shot in the kneecap on Okinawa's Sugar Loaf Hill but left the military hospital when he heard his regiment was moving on to Oruku peninsula. Wounded by mortar fire, he also was shot by a Japanese soldier near his heart. He was a recipient of the Purple Heart.
Manchester's wartime experiences formed the basis for his very personal account of the Pacific Theater, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. In this memoir, Manchester uses some personal anecdotes from his service on Okinawa in his descriptions of battles on Guadalcanal and Saipan.
In 2001, President George W. Bush presented Manchester with the National Humanities Medal. Manchester is also the recipient of the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, among other awards". - [pasted from Wikipedia and Washington Post articles]
Manchester was wounded, left the hospital to return to the fight, and was wounded twice more, very nearly dying. After the war he became a renowned journalist, author, historian.
And this is what the war hero, REAL war hero William Manchester thought of John Wayne:
“After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing [John] Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there.... Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit-and 10-gallon hat, bandanna, checkered shirt, two pistols, chaps, boots and spurs. He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!' He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing.“This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren't going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.”
+cruelsuit1 I have just about everything William Manchester has written, he is one of the finest historians this country has ever produced, I wish I could've met him and mourn his passing.
Manchester had the right to make that assertion about Wayne but what have YOU ever done?
It's always struck me that the same type of person that trots out this tired story is using it to defend not only his relativistic political views but also unconsciously or not, his own lack of moral and physical courage.
I admire Manchester but sometimes suspect he made that story up for his own purposes. It doesn't have the ring of truth to it.
I'm going to call bullshit. Do some research: the Duke went once to Australia to visit troops, but never Hawaii. That's documented.
Also, when Duke visited troops he always wore Khakis, never western garb. And Duke has NEVER worn a "10-gallon hat"
..Joe
if john Wayne was alive now he would be ashamed of Hollywood the blonde white haters
Robert Mitchum was better
not @@seanfitzpatrick4730
Excuse me. Who thumbs down the Duke?
Robert Mitchum was better
@@seanfitzpatrick4730 not better, just different
@@edmonddantes3640 saying John Wayne was a great actor is like saying Michael Jackson had a great singing range and he could see more Styles than Elvis Presley people know that's not true
How is he a war hero?
Robert Mitchum a better actor cooler person to
they dont make good shows like they used to thats why you cant and dont wnt to remember them
Oh the irony. Wayne's career hinges on countless Westerns and War films. He was never a cowboy, nor did he fight in any war.
America will long want to remember John Wayne but not Vietnam. Was James Cagney ever a gangster?
JW was a stunt rider before fame. Great horseman. Owned a ranch.
Do not use the words war hero and John Wayne in the same sentence. Jimmy Stewart, sure because he was in real combat. As the Drive-By Truckers put it in their dismantling of him, "I never saw John Wayne on the Sands of Iwo Jima." The real sands
I don't know who the freak DBT are but l wonder if they ever served in the military?
As a Vet , l can recall only one fellow Vet ever speaking negative about John Wayne.
I wish l had a dollar for everytime some dingleberry would tell me, " Well, if we were in a WAR, l'd join".
Yeah.......right.
Only one percent of Americans now ever serve in the military.
I think the majority of those who so intensely dislike him have more of a problem about what his characters stood for , his politics and use the excuse that he never served as a front.
The reasons he didn't are out there, take'em or leave .
I'll go along with Harry Carey Jr. and judge the man as a whole.
@@edmonddantes3640 Agreed totally sir.
Have you fought in a war? No excuses please.
John Wayne did nothing for our country he acted
Apart from making movies which requires acting
Robert mitchum was better
Yes, Mitchum was very good. Played many different roles.
the roles john wayne got robert mitchum would have done better t
Sean... Are you feverish???? Mitchum had his audience, but he was never more than a B actor who caught a break...
john wayne was a lousy actor and phony could not even use his real name when lntruduse in film a woodén actor no range mitchum was bettẻr heck even Elvis had more acting ability then john wayne you can see that in his early films Jailhouse Rock King creole flaming star wild in the country john wayne so overrated