Very true there Nordy. I still cried in both and wished that they didn't have to kill him off. Guess neither would have made such an impact if they didn't, though! KPKEITH
Posts from Hawkswill in thread „Duke's Movie Screen Deaths.“
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Have to agree with you there Bill. In fact, I was afraid in The Shootist that he had won and was going to survive....Books didn't want that. He DID WIN....killed all the bad guys. He just never counted on the bartender. If it hadn't been for him, he would have survived his wounds and had the agonizing death our Duke had. You are right about the Cowboys. But, for me, probably what made The Cowboys worse was the fact that he MADE those little boys "men", and they proved to him they could do the job. They loved him for it. And they had to watch him die while they could do nothing to help him. THAT, to me, was the saddest part of all. And boy, did I actually CHEER out loud when the boys and Mr. Nightlinger avenged his death. We all did. And when they drove the herd in, seeing little, tiny Clay and all of them swinging their ropes and "talking" those cows in same as any trail savy cowboys would......well, it is just pretty hard to beat a saga like that! KPKEITH Dang it! Made me cry again! WOMEN!
I'm Sorry but i think the saddest death was in the cowboys. It was a unexspected, unprovoked attack by a low life creature named Bruce Dern. In the Shootist, death was inevitable. It was either that or face death by cancer.
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Hi Bill, according to ALL EXPERTS on the net, this is what I found:
John Wayne died in 8 films for definite, and a further two, depending on how you want to look at it.
"Central Airport"
"Reap the Wild Wind"
"The Fighting Seabees"
"Wake of the Red Witch"
"The Sands of Iwo Jima"
"The Alamo"
"The Cowboys"
"The Shootist"He was already dead at the start of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", and most of the film is a flashback to when he was alive. It is just stated that he died, but there is no actual death scene.
In "The Sea Chase" it is left to the audience to decide whether or not he died. The romantic among us like to think that he and Lana Turner were able to escape from the sinking ship at the end of the film, but it is not made clear.
So, one way to look at it is that he died in 10. I had NO IDEA. I have never seen the Sea Chase. Will have to try to find it on one of the "watch it " sites. Peter is going to upload some movies to me, I have tons of storage. I may get to see some of the ones I haven't and don't have access to KPKEITH
