Posts by Yakima1

I love this movie, but I can't watch it without obsessing on the continuity problems every time Duke goes from indoors to outdoors. His hat is always different! There's a lot of walking through doors in this movie, and the front rim of his hat always goes from bent upwards to straight, or vice-versa. Now everyone will notice it! Sorry!

Speaking of the long running debate of who would win in a showdown between John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.......

A lot of younger audiences assume Clint would take it. I say do as they do in a tiebreaker for teams that have never gone head-to-head, look at their record vs common opponents.

Lee Van Cleef was a worthy opposite to Clint Eastwood in 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly'. He was but an inferior side-kick to Liberty Valance who himslef was inferior to John Wayne's Tom Doniphon.

Bill McKinney was a worthy foil for Clint Eastwood over the years in several films. He could be nothing but the cowardly blowhard Jay Cob in the John Wayne movie The Shootist.

No contest. Any script that would have pitted these two against each other would out of necesity for believability have to have John Wayne coming out superior and the victor. The one exception would be if they made Clint Eastwood the Bruce Dern type in The Cowboys. Right?

As great and varied a talent as Clint has been over the years, and as big in the industry as he is, I'm sure it's icing on the cake for him anytime he can be mentioned in the same sentence with John Wayne. The similarities between his supposed last acting role in Gran Torino and John Wayne's The Shootist will forever invite a comparison and get them mentioned in the same sentence. Was it perhaps intentional on Clint's part in an attempt to get a legacy that includes a positive comparison with the Duke as opposed to what he's probably seen a lot in the past - contrast and debate? Smart move........and a good movie.

I heard or read somewhere that James Garner turned down the role of Paul Regret because he had just finished Maverick and didn't want to be type-cast as the slick western gambler. I imagine it could also be a case of one of the many actors who refused to work with John Wayne because of how small they would appear next to Duke.

James Garner and John Wayne would have made for a much better movie.

Can anyone think of another John Wayne movie that James Garner could have co-starred in? I suppose Garner could have easily done the journalist in The Green Berets. How about James Garner instead of Glenn Campbell in True Grit? What about as one of the brothers in The Sons of Katie Elder? I can't imagine any others from Garner's era that might have worked.

Thank you much for the information!

I have never seen The Barbarian and the Geisha. Is it scheduled to be released on DVD? Is there a place where one can go to find out what DVDs are scheduled to be released?

Thanks!

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Hello all,
I am a newbie to this message board. I am a 45 year old avid John Wayne movie fan in Texas. I have 90 John Wayne DVDs and another 22 movies recorded from AMC or TCM.
I just recently read Aissa Wayne's book and I am curious about the movie she says he wanted to make before he died. Apparently he wanted to make "Candy's Man" with Ron Howard. Does anyone know if this movie was ever made by someone else? What was it about?

Thanks!
Yakima