John Wayne on the Hollywood Blacklist, the American Way of Life & why he disliked 'High Noon' 

John Wayne was a simple patriot. Vietnam was unpopular because of the Communist propaganda being forced on the American people by Hollywood and the leftist press. Most of the US people supported the war. We're now seeing the result of Communist and other anti-American infiltration and their eventual takeover of the mass media.

wordwan How does Wayne Represent the American founders? Unless you’re talking about Allegheny Uprising 1939, I don’t know what you’re talking about. McCarthy’s real problem was thinking that everyone who espoused communism was allied with foreign communists, when many where critical of Stalin’s powergrab after Lenin died, he was an authoritarian dictator, communist or not.

TooManyHobbies Vietnam was increasingly unpopular as it went on. It wasn’t declared by congress, it was against a nation that didn’t attack the mainland and like Korea before it, it was us intervening into another country’s civil war which sounds a lot different from WWII where we didn’t want to fight until we where attacked.

@@landosalemchainsaw The Vietnam war was started by a false flag operation and was a disaster for. The USA.

Yes. Like Trump; another armchair soldier.

He was a white supremacist and just a racist in general so yes a modern depiction of the right wing party

Then why didn’t he Serve in the Military?

@@craigdixon4113 He's a hypocrite. Just like the u.s. military guilty of war crimes in a dozen countries every year including genocide in Yemen where over 130 kids die of starvation each day from u.s. bombs and blockades.

the u.s. military is guilty of war crimes in a dozen countries every year including genocide in Yemen where over 130 kids die of starvation each day from u.s. bombs and blockades

@@craigdixon4113 too old

It was still an un-American film and very unrealistic for the time of the west and unrealistic for the 1950s when it was made. That was a period when America beat the Nazi's and stood up to the USSR and other murdering regimes.

@@bighands69 I was a cold war US Marine and trust me anytime America is in trouble we stand alone. A visit to our allies would look a lot like High noon.

@@TheBelegur If America leads they will follow.

@@bighands69 History does not agree.

Perfectly said. Both then and now, especially in light of what we’ve all Seen and witnessed and personally experienced since 2020.

Except he lied and turned the reality on its head. He wasn't "brave", he rewrote history because times changed and he knew that the audience would despise what he did.

@@andrewwigglesworth3030 What are you blathering about.

@@bighands69 John Wayne was a liar. He was one of the main ringleaders in the Hollywood witch-hunts, and that's understating it.

@@andrewwigglesworth3030 There was communists in America. Democrats ran the Hollywood witch hunts in the house of representatives. John Wayne cannot be held accountable for those witch hunts. If people decided to become communists that was their decision.

@@bighands69 it wasn’t a lie when he said “we didn’t blacklist anyone?”

I dipshit who hated who he really was: Marion Morrison 😂

I think Wayne’s objections were a bit more principled than the winning of awards in an increasingly liberal industry.

@@thomastaylor4319 He was great as Genghis Khan. Compared to today's awful political casting, Wayne was charismatic as Khan.

I know a lot of people that feel that way. I know many that quit going to movies before covid.

Good people now too.

Same tribe still running it

@@justinw2232 They were patriotic Jews like L.B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and C.B de Mille. You couldn't carry their jockstraps, you pathetic Nazi.

​@@justinw2232Yeah but they went crazy. Split between Conservative Zionists and Radical Marxists in that community. Unfortunately most of the conservative Jews straight up move to Israel leaving only the Marxists running the show.

Or reflective to the "everyman" as was the case in Braveheart with Robert The Bruce. He knew what William Wallace was saying was true but he also knew he didn't want to lose what he had. The folks in High Noon knew Gary Cooper waa right and deserved their help but didn't want to risk their lives. They were guilty of being human (scared) to the point of inaction as was the case with many regarding the Revolutionary War; slavery; Jim Crow; the Civil Rights movement; anti-fascism. You have those who join or take action against AND those who do feel pro/con but do nothing.

@@csd8204 as was the case with communism, which many in the west were loathe to criticize (as in the case of people like Dalton Trumbo).

@Leo Peridot Patrick Swayze in RED DAWN!

@Leo Peridot everyone wanted to help the sheriff in those movies you dolt.

@Leo Peridot the sheriff turned down there help, said he needed professionals. He didn't want amateurs getting killed. Hell Ward Bond's character got killed for trying to help. You obviously didn't see these movies. Also your obvious hate for our Republic and anything to do with American values such as John Wayne and individual freedoms is palpable. I get it.

*Long story but yes*

@@thetruthchannel349 The Hollywood left has gone full Pol Pot

+Magnus Marz forget me friend, you are disagreeing with your constitutional liberty, your founders.. disagree with me all you want, but disagree with them, and I imagine there is an endless line-up of people that would like to see you removed. I don't think you get America, the only thing you get, is your right to say what you just said.

+Josh T Agreed, from a Briton. Long live the American idea of liberty, and a quick death to Marxism and socialism and other related - anti-American - ideas.

+Josh T - Thanks for your comments on America. You are so correct. We Americans have been given a great nation, but we have turned our back on Christ and Christendom. Christendom has already fallen due to our neglect.The anti Christ commies have infested our country and if we don't get some men like John Wayne again our country will fall. The commies & their puppets that are here don't understand that when it does fall. Their easy time will be over too. Many fail to mention that there were hundreds of commie scum that were tried & convicted from good ole holy-wood during the blacklist period. Senator McCarthy was right all along! They were conspiring to take over the government and with all the attacks on our founders, the south, the Brits, the Germans and above all that Christianity. I'm not so sure the commies didn't win and have destroyed us from within or at least our effectiveness to carry out a major war. All without firing a shot, just like they said they would. We have now lost our morality, wealth, industry, and are being invaded by tens of millions of people who do not want to be Americans or even speak English. Many even want to take the country and start Aztlan and others an islam nation. Wake up quick America! When good men do nothing; the evil men prevail. civildefensenewsnetwork.com/

+Civil Defense News Network (a service of the Protestant Church of America) I'm not religious myself, but I'm certainly closer to Christians than the many degenerates that are defended, or even exulted, by the mainstream cultures of America and Britain. Before I defend Christianity, I'll be taking a bullet for the principles detailed in the Bill of Rights and seeking to root out of our societies the leftist or liberal diseases, those sorry ideas of perpetual victimhood and entitlement and 'free stuff', that so deeply infest them. Long may the Godlike ideas of your Founding Fathers, as well as their courage, live and inspire and empower us, especially in these unfriendly times for American Liberty and Individualism.

That's funny, because my grandfather served in world war 2, was a life long liberal, and John Wayne didn't. Bullshit truley is ingrained in the right wing isn't it?

Glad the Duke is not around to see current Hollywood..complete disgrace. Hell the country in general is going to shit because of liberals

you mean when the twat attacked a true american native woman who declined an oscar on behalf of marlon brando.

@Leo Peridot you are 100% clueless

@Leo Peridot john wayne

COMMIES ARE GARBAGE

He’s not right. High Noon is about a man fulfilling his commitment to protect the town despite overwhelming odds against and no help from those he is protecting. It’s about doing the right thing simply because it is right. He is correct, though, that it is un-American because we’ve never been willing to protect other people just because it’s the right thing to do.

Yes. Foreman intended it to be a parabol on the mccarthy era. It is critic about the american society. Thats whats great about it.

Bri G. We still do, and now can carry & conceal them for self protection because of a crooked bastard who poisoned America with 8 years to do so...and opened our doors to ppl who hate us enough to blow themselves up and get away with religious protection as a barrier, when it's really a cult. And no different than the tripple k club.

Yeah, but Cinema isn't about truth. You know "Battleship Potemkin", the Odessa massacre never happened in real life, but it sure is one of the most iconic and important scenes of movie history. Eisenstein said it's all about the opposite of truth but in the realm of plausibility, "High Noon" might not be true to life, but it's plausible and it's one a hell of a psychological thriller. Do you agree with John Wayne because you share his view or because he's just John Wayne?

the truth is,, most people walk away from trouble,, then and today.. worldwide.. waynes romantic views of americans is great, but not true.. and hes allowed to portray the west anyway he wants also..

Not so. Most people? Not in the USA back then. The people who populated the west were rough folks, many were Civ War vets and if they'd let themselves be pushed around they'd not have made it this far. I can tell you where I live in GA the police could find a hundred men to back them simply by snapping their fingers. That in fact, is how it used to work. Very few law men who could count on a posse at crunch time. Look at the Whitman Tower shooting in the sixties - the ordinary folks armed up and backed the cops.

From what I've seen and heard about the American West, it was a mixed bag. There were notorious bad men about and people mostly got out of their way. A number of sheriffs were pretty bad, and not many people stood up to them. Sometimes they did, but generally these bad guys got to run around and be bad for years before anyone got the nerve to take care of it.

Sarchasm.

No, no he was not

rita degenova he was a racist piece of shit bet he’s burning in hell allonside reagan and herr hittler

sunil shah ,,U R A BLOODY FOOL,, BRAINWASHED BY CUMMUNISTS CONSPIRACY...

Perhaps he changed his mind later on after viewing it again as time passed or he was just being polite when accepting the award for Cooper and always felt this way, but thought it inappropriate to voice his displeasure about a film he’s accepting an award for. I’d say either case I’d quite likely.

@TheBrabon1 You sound like a person of experience.

He didn't have a problem with Gary Cooper. He just didn't like the premise of the movie. I love Gary Cooper yet still side with the Duke on his opinion.

@TheBrabon1 I can tell you don't like him. Don't. Banging on about it just makes yourself sound stupid.

@cf1934 "He said he was going to go back to his agent and ask him why he didn't get him the part that Cooper got." Source?

You mean: The Duck was roasted.

@Sebastian Guevara ) are you ok?

@@steamboatwill3.367 He was a ‘Friend of Dorothy’.

@@jeremiahkerry ) source?

@@steamboatwill3.367 Dorothy!

Damn right!

Nobody cares what you think 🤣

yep..woke commies have infiltrated Hollywood..hell the whole country

Thats true. Though to be fair this woke blacklisting is the kind of thing they were trying to do too everybody back in the day. It was just far less successful. Thankfully, there is alot of pushback.

Which teaches us the Deep State will go with whatever political ideology is in vogue, as long as they hold on to power.

Dean Cain and James Woods are too irrelevant to be banned so why would anyone bother lol.

How the heck is James Woods blacklisted?

Nils Lindqvist he’s not getting any roles due to him being a conservative and a very out spoken Trump supporter. That’s how he’s blacklisted.

Sicarri ! Citations needed.

Jared Wignall He hasn’t acted in a film since 2014, (except for VA work) before Trump ran.

ha ha ha ha nope

Well said.....

+patrick o donnell You don't get sarcasm do you?

+Easyandy100 No: you are easily confused about everything.

Indrekk Pringi Look chump.John Wayne is a symbol of American pride.The USA is an imperialistic country now.The only "just" one was The War of Independence. The others were deceptions,lies. Brave White men dying while killing other brave White men....ALL of it avoidable and could easily have had diplomacy as a solution

Well-said

Up till post WWII the Hollywood and Group Theater communists engaged in wholesale character assassination, whispering campaigns and maneuvered takeovers of both artistic groups and unions. Elia Kazan once laughed about his 'shameful' naming names and brought up the years of self righteous viciousness of the left.

Are you also feeling bad about Boris Johnson being chewed on trying to enforce the democratic vote to leave EU ?

The Duke put him in his place.

@@krisiglehart3061 Yes and I'm glad he did.

@@krisiglehart3061 Only if you agree do you see it as putting him in his place.

@* AnimalHeadSpirit * Fascist? Ffs behave yourself!

+Cacalari Bus Good post. Finally! Somebody gets what he was trying to say! The movie didn't accurately portray the wild west/pioneer towns in which that story was supposed to be set. If anything, it was an object lesson into what we should never be like; not as a citizen, not as a neighbor, not as a friend, not as a wife.

Whether or not it was a cautionary tale is beside the point. It was a great film. Gary Cooper's performance in it was outstanding. And yes, people act like cowards even with guns. You know, just like Mr. John Wayne. Taking courage lessons from that coward is like taking driving lessons from Stevie Wonder. Real men fought... Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, James Stewart. Some, like Stewart were conservative, others like Gable, Fonda and Douglas were liberal - BUT THEY WERE MEN. Wayne had NO LEGIT excuse to stay at home on a movie set.

So many of those people are pedo sympathizers

Yes. I have been watching some of his movies lately!

American 's are fickle if you disagree with them ;part of being American is to have freedom of choice.

@csd8204 You're so full of shit, your eyes are brown.

Well said Chris!

His reasoning in this interview was that commies were keeping people out of jobs and they were blacklisting actors that didn't agree. So they pushed back at this kind of behavior... It went too far but its obvious what they were trying to prevent ultimately became what the industry is today: woke garbage propaganda that blacklists any viewpoint that doesn't go along with their creepy commie socialist agendas. Trumbo and his commies were no different to evil like Hitler. It is what it is. Trumbo would have supported all the creepy mandates and politicized pseudo- science nonsense had he existed today. Trumbo would have been the first to keep people out of society for not complying. And likely would have blacklisted actors for not getting the clot shot.

And you must be a commie.

You like him because of his lack of nuance?? Is this real life?

He was able to speak his mind because braver men died for his right to do so!

@@krisiglehart3061 There you go! Proof indeed that indoctrination works!

But Wayne couldn't hide the fact that he was a fascist

Ricardo Cantoral Producers made movies for propaganda purposes to glorify the state no differently than N Korea. Gutless townsfolk and throwing away a badge wouldn't sit right. It puts the ideal of stalwart citizens and loyal law enforcement into disrepute. The movie was too real to be a propaganda tool.

Doug Pfeiffer Enjoy your conspiracy theories. Rio Bravo was about the importance of camaraderie, a common theme in Hawks' films.

Doug Pfeiffer usually dictators keep there people down mentally physically emotionally economically spiritually especially starving them . it is harder to fight back. bastards

The movie was unreal. Would not have happened in real life.

In addition, Hawks hated that Gary Cooper was going around begging people for help in doing his job.

@@welshcourtland America needed a hero. John Wayne gave them one. He proved his worth.

@@welshcourtland JW had about 4 children at the time and was afforded an exemption like thousands of other Americans. Had he have gone and died it would've left his wife to support the children on her own. I raised my 2 children on my own and can tell you that itself takes a toll even in this day and age. He never fled the country or his responsibilities. They don't hand out posthumous congressional medals to draft dodgers. It may be your opinion which you have all the right to but that doesn't make it true.

2 men was my favorite of all time and john Wayne Jimmy Stewart RIP

@TheBrabon1 Wayne made some wonderful films. My favorites are "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "The Quiet Man" and "North to Alaska." And, I really liked "The Shootist," too. But I disagree with him about "High Noon." Is he trying to say that EVERYBODY in the Old West was admirable? No cowards? No cheats? No villains? C'mon, Duke.God bless you. But there were always cowards then. "High Noon" just happened to reflect one town of people who were far from heroes.

yes the hole in the script has to have sheb woooley break a window and steal a hat so coop has an excuse to shoot them it was thought a piece of shit bt the studio and cooper what saved it was the editor cutting several wordy anti american speeches ignoring the slow pace of the direction and making it a movie in real time so that the boring bits can be negated by showing the clock face and racking up the tension

Okay. Starting today, Hollywood will make believable movies.

Yep agreed! God Bless him for being a 'stand up guy' and a True America!

RushLimborg And its worth noting: John Wayne's philosophical dislike of "High Noon" led to the creation of another of the greatest Westerns of all time: "Rio Bravo", which is in many ways the Conservative Alternative to "High Noon".

+dezert fox .And he woulda gloriously duked you out

+dezert fox And he was better than you!

I'm not quite sure that macho John Wayne would have actually had the guts to punch anyone without a stuntman present to take his fall. If you watch the intriguing new film, TRUMBO, blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo dares "Duke"" to punch him, after Trumbo points out that he and other members of the Hollywood Ten had distinguished war records, while John Wayne spent World War II in front of a camera.

Oh look out he dared him, and if the Duke would he probably woulda duked him out. What war records where those? The ones we that they were in practical prison camps back then and held away from the war? Oh nevermind, we pretty much "duked" all you lefties out back then. Lmao!

Suggest you do a little genuine research Ballsarama, rather than regurgitating 'Liberal' lies that besmirch the memory of a very great man. Fact. During WWII John Wayne repeatedly attempted to enlist, but was rejected as a result of the ongoing effect of the injuries which had previously ended his football career:- How John Wayne saved the United States Marine Corps - "Did ... weeklyhistory.com/2016/01/30/94 30/01/2016 · When war broke out, Wayne tried to enlist but was rejected because of old football injuries and a bad back from years of doing his own stunts, his age (34), and his family status (father, 4 children). So he flew out to Washington to plead that he be allowed to join the Navy.

@@cedricworthingtonbroadaxe2287 Mr. Broadaxe, thank you for the enlightenment. I'll take it under advisement and look into it. Having done research for 20 years about a 1968 Hollywood movie, I realize that events have more than one meaning. The article you posted is more about PR for the Marines. Have you read these articles? www.military.com/off-duty/2019/02/22/john-waynes-racist-comments-lack-wwii-service-resurface-intense-debate.html worldwarwings.com/5-reasons-why-john-wayne-never-served-in-wwii/ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2819281/John-Wayne-DID-dodge-draft-continue-torrid-affair-sexy-German-actress-Marlene-Dietrich-best-lay-ve-new-book-reveals.html www.mentalfloss.com/article/627564/best-zoom-products-video-meetings?.straightdope.com/21342206/was-john-wayne-a-draft-dodger www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/john-wayne-the-duke.html I really liked Wayne as an actor. He and Robert Montgomery were great in "They Were Expendable". Whatever the reason for not going, I guess Wayne could say, "I'm not a war hero...but I played one on TV." Check?

The articles you quoted are rehashes of others written by anti-American Marxists and their acolytes, intent on befouling the memory of a very great man who represented everything that made the America of his age a great Nation; written by the same sort of miserable specimens that are now trying to erase his memory (Orwellian style) by re-naming John Wayne Airport. Calls to rename John Wayne airport and remove statue over ... news.sky.com/story/calls-to-rename-john-wayne-airport-and... 29/06/2020 · A statue of John Wayne is on display beneath an American flag in John Wayne Airport Why you can trust Sky News John Wayne's name and statue should be removed from Orange County's airport in California because of racist comments, local politicians are demanding.

@@cedricworthingtonbroadaxe2287 Dear Mr. Broadaxe, again, thank you for the clarification. I see now there is a political tone in this John Wayne issue you're concerned with and a suspicion of the motives of people who have liberal viewpoints, but, that in this democracy have an equal right to express as you have yours. I'll suggest to you what I comment on the posts dealing with the "Paul is Dead" folks regarding whether Paul McCartney is dead or not. I tell them to shut off the computer, get out of their bedroom, and get down to the street to do some real research. In Wayne's case, go out where is documentation dealing with the facts and realities about his draft board decisions; in the government and, if true from his movie studio. Interview people in those organizations and the ones who are retired and still alive. The US National Archive has many such documents. Talk to his ex-wives, if alive, if not, talk to their sons, daughters, relatives. Check those Orwell style books and authors you mention and see what their research was and look into it to see if it's reasonable and factual. You'll be surprised on how much paperwork and people are still left today. Do some real searching for facts and get closer to the truth. If you find new evidence, publicize it so others can check your work...who knows, you could find the document, interview, truth that decides this issue. You might make a sideline of discovering the truths of issues people banter about endlessly online with little or no evidence. When you get tired of debating in a vacuume with people on the basis of little or no evidence, then you might really search for the truth...otherwise everyone is just talking about perceptions and how they "feel" about an issue. Perceptions might be how the stock market works, but if you ultimately want the truth, you have to track it down.

Ballsarama so I have to assume you are unfamiliar with his correspondences with John Ford (and others) trying to find away around everyone of those reasons.

Wayne straight out lies in this interview. He was one of the main ringleaders for the Hollywood witch-hunts. He obviously realised that is would not go down well with the audience, so he "revised" what happened as if the blacklist was incidental to him and not something he used to boost his own career whilst ruining other people's lives. People should look up what John Wayne did, and the realise what a cowardly dissembler he is in this interview. Wayne knew that Parkinson had to be polite and not call him out clearly as a liar and a far-right apologist.

Wayne was a coward who stayed behind when other film stars went to war. He only wore a military uniform in the movies. He is a right-wing fascist.

MrBrettwh7 Thankfully, I am not an American. I live in a democracy!

@@jeremiahkerry Agreed. He was a World War 2 draft dodger.

no because trump is a zionist traitor who puts another country first, israel, and he wouldnt of liked that i guarantee.

End The Lies Now And, an unmitigated racist. But, he was a great movie soldier. Loved dressing up in a uniform.

Me too. "Need to be young and stupid to ever become old and wise".

He churned out a bunch of forgotten, low quality pulp movies

@@Ramukaka249 The searchers, Red River, Sands of Iwo Jima just to name a few were strong character, and total films, recognized by many as great works. As well as true grit, the quiet man and the shootist. But as always people have their own opinions

@@Ramukaka249 How many of his pictures have you seen?! Any? Stagecoach (1939)? Seven Sinners (1940)? Dark Command (1940)? The Shepherd of the Hills (1941 or 1942)? They were Expendable (1945)? Red River (1948)? Fort Apache (1948)? Three Godfathers (1948)? She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)? Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)? The Quiet Man (1952)? Hondo (1953)? The High and the Mighty (1954)? The Searchers (1956)? The Wings of Eagles (1957)? The Horse Soldiers (1959)? The Alamo (1960)? North to Alaska (1960)? The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)? How the West was Won (1962)? The Longest Day (1962)? McLintock! (1963) In Harm's Way (1965)? The War Wagon (1967)? True Grit (1969)? The Cowboys (1972)? The Shootist (1976)? The above list was just what I could recall, off the top of my head. I saw all of those pictures, save for Hondo.

@@nstix2009xitsn - the monumental absurdity of the Apache chase scene in Stagecoach, by Zeus! Forty or so redskins can’t fire their guns while the whiteys are all crack shots! The silent films made by DW Griffith decades ago were better than the action packed shouty nonsense of John Ford. John Wayne starred in the big budget potboilers of his day, that no one watches any more. The Longest Day was a great film, but John Wayne was just one of a cast of characters in it. His heyday was in the 40s and 50s.

@@Ramukaka249 I guess that means that Stagecoach was the only John Wayne picture you ever saw. the only John Ford picture, either. I have no idea what "action packed shouty nonsense of John Ford" you could possibly be talking about. Neither, for that matter, do you.

+WildwoodClaire1 Dissembling.... thanks Claire.... I could not think of the word. It is shocking how much of this interview comes down to retribution for perceived political grievances. I felt like there was a Nixonian quality of the personal attacks that he made during this interview.

***** other than his knuckle-dragging, oafish pal Ward Bond, he was possibly the most malodorous fascist scheissekopf in Hollywood. I liked some of his movies though. Stagecoach is one of my favorite westerns. On the other hand, most of the films he made in his last decade or so were formulaic crap. "True Grit," in particular, buggered a fine novel.

"i always enjoyed watching john wayne but it was only when i met native americans that i realized how dangerous his so called westerns were" - Marlon Brando

John Wayne understood what so many still fail to grasp, capitalism vs communism isn’t a battle between two ideas, it’s a battle between freedom and a morally reprehensible dehumanizing power grab disguised as philosophy. It’s just like he said, in 200 years an imperfect system called capitalism, that has at its heart the premise of free agency, produced a nation that was able to take advantage of the untamed wilderness and feed and clothe the world. Since then, even more has been done by the fruits of US capitalism to reduce poverty through technology and ingenuity. The UN estimates nearly every one in the world will be above the lowest poverty line within a few decades. Everyone is free to speak, and that means you are permitted to use your speech to encourage decision makers to produce and support certain artists. Like the man said, most of the blacklisted folks were either not very busy before or were doing great before and after and were often prioritized over more conservative writers. The blacklist was informal, abused, and an expression of free speech and capitalism, and like so many other freedoms not easily pigeon holed as good or bad. The only perspective we hear about is from the very same industry that felt they were a victim of it. Is it not relevant that the only perspective of the blacklist is from the artists, gifted communicators, who felt victimized and came to hold positions of prominence within Hollywood. History can be written by the losers too, and if they’re by their nature better writers than the victors, their perspectives will dominate. Lastly, I love High Noon, but it is true that the premise requires a revision of history that at its heart implies a level of cowardice that simply doesn’t exist. Fact is, most small towns function as better communes supporting each other than bona fide communist communes. It is by no means as egregious as native Americans revisions, but even John Wayne acknowledged that and changed many of the films in his later years to reflect a more enlightened view.

Maybe Yahweh, but not Yeshua.

Why is he tho? Please explain

@@draggingcanoe1461 He obviously talks to god ...

Dalton Trumbo was an apologist for Stalinism. That fawning biopic is a steaming pile of manure.

WHAT DESIRE TO PROTECT AMERICA? He was with the McCarthy crowd!

@@jeremiahkerry - Back in the 1940s and 1950s we were in the middle of a cold war. The USSR, the world's #1 source and spreader of communism, was our enemy, and communism was seen as their tool. There was a paranoia that the spread of communism in America could threaten the democracy that our founders envisioned. was it reasonable to think so? By today's standards, maybe so. But we di not walk in the shoes of those who lived in that time. I know now that if I had been Edward G. Robinson, and some Congressman was trying to force me to testify against my friends, I would very simply have PUBLICLY told the man to fuck off, and that no one I knew, regardless of creed, race, religion, or whatever, ever had any intentions of toppling the US government. And with that said, I would tell the asshat that there was no reason for me to elaborate any further by revealing names. But I know that NOW. It was a different world then. Wayne was a patriotic guy. He made the wrong decision to avoid military service, but did so to avoid losing a career that was at its peak. He tried to make up for it some time later, with very patriotic films like "Sands of Iwo Jima" "The Longest Day", etc. This was likely part of what motivated him. So, yeah, as misguided as he may have been at the time, I think he later acknowledged it. He was not necessarily a fan of McCarthy, but you're right that they seem to have leaned in the same direction with regard to keeping communism out of the movie industry and out of the military.

@@jumperguy9867 Wayne was part of the House Unamerican Activities Committee. I have the book with the transcripts and the interrogation committees. McCarthyism was more dangerous than communism. Furthermore, if the majority of the US population decided that communism was a better system for them, that is democratic. Take a look at the poorest cities in the USA - abject poverty, no healthcare. Think on how Socialist countries in Europe work 32 hour, 4 day weeks, have healthcare, free education and great social services. Take a look at where the USA stands on the International League of Corruption list. Many Americans would be better off in Cuba under communism! Take a look at ‘Cancer Alley’, New Orleans to see how ‘ Black Lives Don’t Matter!’ A nation where some cities have no safe potable water supplies. Take a look at Detroit and how a nation that made fine cars allowed Japan and now China to flood your markets and be given your manufacturing industries. And, maybe take a look at what influence the privately owned Federal Reserve has on American economic policy. Take a look at JFK’s attempt to weaken the effect of the Fed Reserve; it cost him his life!

@@jeremiahkerry I started to write a long post to refute what you wrote, but you're literally too fucking stupid for my time.

You got that right. But you never mentioned his homosexuality.

Really some of the greatest movies of our time have been created by "commie" actors, screen writes, and directors. Movies like Mad Max Fury Road or 1917 or Joker are some of the greatest films ever made and because some dead white supremacist says the left is bad right is good you wont watch some of the greatest motion pictures to ever have graced the big screen. It is truly sad how petty some people are.

@@wordwan "I believe in white supremacy until blacks are educated to a point of reponsibility" -John Wayne

@@wordwan Are you serious you dont think that is racist at all. Jesus Christ I loved his movies but you all worship him like he was god

Hugzdeeznutzz you do know John Wayne’s comments have been taken out of context right? Because he was a very successful actor and also a conservative, people have found quotes of his nowadays and remove the context as well as reword what he said so they can paint him as racist or homophobic. His own son had to set the record straight with this fact when people tried to trash his name.

Jared Wignall Under what context would that be right? Are you implying that he laughed after he said it, like it was a joke? Well here’s the full context Playboy: Angela Davis claims that those who would revoke her teaching credentials on ideological grounds are actually discriminating against her because she’s black. Do you think that’s true? Wayne: With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

Rightfully so. What did they do with all that land besides turn it in to a fucking battleground for their tribal warfare. They couldn't even invent the fucking wheel.

Correct - there were four gunman, not three, and at the end Coop did not grind the badge into the ground with his foot. He just threw the badge down to the ground.

@@CraigWinstanley1 yeah, his description of the church scene was way off too, which is most telling since that's where half the townspeople gave their rationale for not fighting. A few guys did stand right up to fight and were talked out of it because a shoot out in the street would set their town back "5 years", the town John Wayne is describing them sacrificing everything for. I think John Wayne saw it once and then stewed on it for 30 years until he forgot what it was actually about.

@@CoryFalde175 His argument is that the people were afraid of 3 outlaws, and that considering their position, they wouldn't be according to his idea of what's American. That doesn't "get addressed" that's just what the story is, lol.

@@jay1jayf it gets specifially addressed. The town people were roughly divided into two groups, the saloon people and the church people. He goes to the saloon to recruit deputies. Nobody in there was scared of the bad guys. They were friends with Frank Miller. They had been smoking and joking with Ben Miller seconds before Cane walked in. The hotel clerk goes into some pretty explicit exposition on this exact point. Then he went to the church. He asked for deputies and half a dozen men stood up immediately to join him. They were talked down because everything they'd accomplished by crossing the frontier and braving hardships for would be set back 5 years if they had a gun fight in the streets. They stood down to save their town's reputation that they'd worked so hard for, not because they were scared. Only 2 people were scared. His one deputy and his friend that made his wife lie.

@@CoryFalde175 "Things were different were different then, Kane. You had six steady deputies to start off with. Now you have 2" That's the saloon, after Kane ask to join since THEY HELPED break up the gang initially. Literally because they're outnumbered. In the church 4 arguments are provided "Kane and Miller have personal problem" Which is a facetious argument because Kane's problem with Miller starter precisely because he was "the best marshall the towns ever had" and it was cleaned up in the first place. "why didn't you arrest the 3 killers, that way we would only have to worry about Miller" Which is again about numbers of criminal, aka scared. "Politicians in the north released them is not our problem" and finally the "Kane should not have returned because the problem is between him and Miller" The "personal problem" point is based on betrayal of Kane being left alone when he's the one who NEEDS the town BECAUSE of the service he gave them in the first place. It's not meant to be a pragmatic argument, the movie presents it as a betrayal. So no, you're quite clearly missing the point in the church and the char in the saloon explicitly tells us that it is because they're afraid. So much for The Duke not being "exactly accurate" lmao.

@Victoria Jarvis - I guess you deserve my utmost pity for believing in what right-wingers like Ronald McReynolds said about America in its paranoid delusion!

all them actors is dry basters

how do you no did you roll him over

+UnseenCaller Don't forget Am I Will?

+Easyandy100 Lol. Most ridiculous comment I've received in a while. LMAO

+angrydoug Lee marvin was a democrat

love the man everything he stands for is what i stand for today

"Radical Liberal" lol

Liberals are ever "radical" ?

True. Unlike Christians, Marxists never admit that they need confession for not living up to the standard of their Jewish god Marx.

+The John Life u mean their lack of beliefs?i knew many people like him.i still draw off of them all these years later.

Name all these Communists who's lives were ruined… Name them. Show me someone who had a career who didn't after that. And tell me communists and those who call themselves Jews are not flourishing in Hollywood today. Try being a real American in Hollywood today… Try claiming being a Christian and see how well that does for you

The new Trumbo movie is a leftist piece of shit. Wayne looks nervous because he's being grilled on television. Is that something you would enjoy?

Wayne laid out that the communists wouldn't hire a writer who wasn't a communist. The communists didn't like it when the same approach was applied to them.

it was seen by many as an attempt to curb the scrreenwriters who were getting more and more outlandish in their demands and salary.they held the rest of the movieworld in contempt few suffered as a result except they had to work cheaper under assumed names. larry parkes often cited did stop making movies but this was due to his appalling performance in a scottish swashbuckler in which he was awful not the blacklist. he had a sucessful cabaret act for the rest of his career like john raitt cos he didnt make movies doesnt mean he wasnt sucessful

+jimbojim68 his assment of High noon wasn't fair. Plenty of cowboys in real life probably weren't up to fighting the likes of Miller but Carl Foreman deserved to be run out of the country. Kudos to JW and the rest at MPAPAI. He might have missed ww2 but at least he was around for ww3.

John Wayne, 1971: "I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

jimbojim68 all those quotes were blatant forgeries. falsehood and libel. In fact In an interview before he died John Wayne said he respected the indians. he said he never stared in a movie that deprived them of dignity. That doesn't mean there were war movies with indians though. But it was a consequence of history. This is just an attack on anti-communists by communists.

They came from a Playboy interview. The same source for the questions in this British interview. The same source for a quote on John Wayne's tombstone.

jimbojim68 Playboy was notorious for falsifying quotes for controversial people in those days even genuine nazi ass holes like George Lincoln Rockwell. In the last recorded interview with Wayne he even states that they were false and that he was never a racist and that he respected native americans and refused to star in any western that did not give them their dignity.

@johngore7744 "I’m more worldly than your average American" The hell, you are. You're more pretentious, and more delusional.

@@nstix2009xitsn I’m on a lot of LSD right now for complicated mental issues. I’m sorry if I was rude. They say they’ll let me see day.light tomorrow. It’s been 2 years.

@@johngore7744 No sweat, John. Godspeed!

+Charles Brown The cool thing about that movie, is that it represents how America chooses to interpret it's own history. Hence, "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend". I wonder if that fits into the Duke's view of what a "true picture from the pioneer west" is like?

+Charles Brown ........you....are.....I.....can't help you,you're lost by my standards.

Thanks. Good to know.

+H.G. C. The people you know are probably not liberals. They're probably just mentally defective help less idiots.

That's American shooting someone from the shadows. Ha ha ha