Great man! Great actor, there will never be another like him! Thanks for this, and thanks be to God he was baptized by a Catholic priest on his death bed!
It is so hard to believe that the Duke has been gone for 44 years now at the time of my posting. I miss you John. We need millions or billions of men like you.
OUR movie HERO.s Still Here~Never Gone Away!!!!! ALL ON MY RU-vid!!!! Word on Westerns!!! By Rob Word. Ect.Favorit song. Now Dry my 😢. Stagecoach Age 7yrs.End of Bomb.g. 1945!! UK.
To Sackitt16 I'm a Caucasian American and fifty five years old. I too grew up watching John Wayne with my Dad and treasure every moment of them. I was glad to read what you had to say because I too never got racism from the Duke's movies. In fact I'm pretty certain he was the first to cast African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, etc. etc. in "non-typical" roles. Woody Strode's casting in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was one of the first I can recall. (Even if the dialogue was somewhat dated . .)
Problem here is: John Wayne was an actor. What else did he do? Captain Kangeroo was a Marine. Lee Marvin was a Marine. David Niven was a Colonel of British Commandos. John Wayne? Made pretty cool movies. What else?
There is life outside the army. Wayne wanted to join John Fords film unit but the army did not accept him. James Stewart became a bomber pilot and a war hero and after the war he had nightmares for having killed people and while shooting It´s a Wonderful Life he just thought he couldn´t do comedy anymore after what he had seen in war. Barrymore then made him understand that it is also important to make people happy maybe far better than killing them with bombs and Stewart finally found a way to deal with his movie career and still be part of the army, even going to Vietnam. Everyone has to make this decision for himself. I joined the army, not because I love the army but because I thought I´ll be better off in a war if I know what is going on. I don´t blame Stewart for going to war and I do not blame Wayne for not to do so. It was their life and I do not think anyone should tell someone else when or if to risk his life and for what.
. I Am a Cherokee Cowboy With a dream that he'll never let go so He keeps searching to find a good Lady . My pony and my rifle my dog So riding to end of the rainbow's riding until he find a good Lady. through the wind's Mountie's , the skies turn to grey, his body grows weary. but He can't find his way but he'll never turn back through the storms lost in the snow and rains and the lightning bolt's he is blind he cant see love. It is hard to see it with a broken heart through the winds he has to find is way through life. So he can find love. It is hard to see it with a broken heart so he keep riding as life go by Cowboy through the wind' So riding to end of the rainbow's riding to you find a true love . Never Cry for the person who hurt's you .Just smile and say thank you for giving me chance to find someone better than you are so just say good be so go riding to you find a true love . This is I am doing to find some one to but in my life . Like God
the first time I made to watch this film el dorado was that i'm at the age of 8 and I love watching till the moment I was at my age know;;; and I love watching and watching it over and over its a great movie of 60's ..,.,.
I am a 26-year old BLACK (African-American) and I can't say enough high praise about the "Duke". When I hear people yak about John Wayne's supposed racism, I just shake my head. John Wayne was the first Hollywood star to have an African-American co-star, Blue Washington, in 1932's Haunted Gold; one of Wayne's very first westerns. Not only that, Wayne believed women should be equal to men in education, politics and the workforce. I have watched every John Wayne Western and war film since I was four years old; there is only one thing you can say about them all...Magnificent!! When "Duke" said that we BLACKS should stay where we were in the 1960s until we got a better education, he was talking about political leaders, not the whole race. My mom grew up in that time and tells me Black folks were saying that to each other long before the civil rights movement! "Duke" NEVER tolerated racism and was friends with the top black actors in his day (Woody Strode, Roscoe Lee Brown.) My father was a trucker and, being home-schooled, I had a chance to see every corner of the country and meet its people from my pre-teen years to my early 20's. This I learned from that experience, John Wayne's westerns told the story of America. The Indians weren't doing a thing with the land when the settlers went west. A person has to work the land for it to belong to them. America came into being because of the toil of people who wanted a home with law and justice, not a vast land of ritualistic murder, torture, and rape. THAT's what most, not all, but most Indians were doing to each other. John Wayne's westerns are about the triumph of life over death, of good over evil, of God's law over Satan's tyranny. I learned from the Bible, my mom and the "Duke" to respect and protect women. To stand your ground for what's right is a message constantly in John Wayne westerns. When you fight a guy, do it face to face. All of Hollywood's tough guys of today hold "Duke" in the highest regard. Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, and others...all of them respect the "Duke". Robert Duvall respected Wayne and James Stewart, who served in WWII in Vietnam was a great friend of "Duke". As for me, I see all these young male actors of today and I'm disappointed. Nobody can play a man's man like the "Duke"...nobody. I don't wear do-rags, dropping pants or earrings and I don't listen to Rap, hip-hop or heavy metal "music". I've never slapped a girl or mistreated one verbally or otherwise. I wear jeans, boots and a stetson. I believe in God, family, and country. John Wayne was not a perfect man, but he was the best actor Hollywood will EVER know because his films spoke of humanity. I respect John Wayne and I don't give a hoot who knows it.
James Stewart was a reserve Air Force officer at the the time of vietnam. He flew one mission as an on-board observer in B-52 bombers, but refused any publicity.
Eine Legende die niemals Endet !! John Wayne du hast meine Kindheit geprägt mit deinen Filmen ..ich hab so gut wie jeden deiner Filme gesehen sowie diverse Dokumentationen R.I.P
I have tried in vain to research George A!exander. The baritone died in 1913. The Mellomen page does not refer to him nor does it refer to the movie El Dorado. Such a magnificent voice and no one can find info on it/him!
