Oh SFA...yes, even in Wales I'm sure it must be important for your acculturation to know about John Wayne...my claim to fame is that when I lived in Iowa, I visited the town of Winterset, where he was born, and his family home is now preserved as a tourist attraction or something! And Winterset is still a rather small, rural town too, very pretty I liked it.
Oh Rooster this is a wonder and a delight -- directed by John Ford, all the way back in 1946, proudly in technicolor which must have been quite a new innovation then! And John Wayne playing a bad man, too...
Amazing.....I am sure I have seen some of his films but can’t recall one at the moment!
Oh SFA...yes, even in Wales I'm sure it must be important for your acculturation to know about John Wayne...my claim to fame is that when I lived in Iowa, I visited the town of Winterset, where he was born, and his family home is now preserved as a tourist attraction or something! And Winterset is still a rather small, rural town too, very pretty I liked it.
Always thought he was great in "Three Godfathers".
Oh Rooster this is a wonder and a delight -- directed by John Ford, all the way back in 1946, proudly in technicolor which must have been quite a new innovation then! And John Wayne playing a bad man, too...
I never saw that one!
Starts out that way but ends differently.
I've seen Stagecoach (1939).
He had a LOT of uncredited film roles in the 20s.
John Wayne filmography - Wikipedia
New information for me in both points, Tink!
-- I did not realize STAGECOACH was so early as 1939, nor that he was knocking around with bit parts uncredited in the '20's...
It was "Stagecoach" that made him a permanent movie star finally!
He was always ancient in any of the films I saw him in. In fact, I tried my darnest not to see his films.
Tsk, tsk, tsk...