Yep. “Life is hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”
There is I doubt...John Wayne
Wayne. Clint is good but can’t match Wayne.
McClintock, Katy Elder, North to Alaska, The Alamo are just a few of my favs.
John Wayne...84 westerns...the list is here
1930
The Big Trail
1931
The Range Fued
1932
Two-Fisted Law
Texas Cyclone
Ride Him Cowboy
Haunted Gold
The Big Stampede
1933
The Telegraph Trail
Somewhere In Sonora
Sagebrush Trail
Riders of Destiny
The Man From Monterey
1934
West of The Devide
The Trail Beyond
The Star Packer
Randy Rides Alone
The Man From Utah
The Lucky Texan
The Lawless Frontier
Blue Steel
Neath The Arizona Skies
1935
Westward Ho
Texas Terror
Rainbow Valley
Paradise Canyon
The New Frontier
Lawless Range
The Desert Trail
The Dawn Rider
1936
Winds Of The Wasteland
The Lonely Trail
The Lawless Nineties
King of The Pecos
1937
California Straight Ahead
1938
Born to The West
Santa Fe Stampede
Red River Range
Pals of The Saddle
Overland Stage Raiders
1939
Wyoming Outlaw
Three Texas Steers
The Night Riders
New Frontier
Allegheny Uprising
Stagecoach
1940
The Dark Command
1941
Lady From Louisiana
1942
The Spoilers
In Old California
1943
A Lady Takes A Chance
1943
War of The Wildcats (In Old Oklahoma)
1944
Tall In The Saddle
1945
Dakota
Flame of Barbary Coast
1947
Angel and The Badman
1948
3 Godfathers
Fort Apache
Red River
1949
The Fighting Kentuckian
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
1950
Rio Grande
1953
Hondo
1956
The Searchers
1959
The Horse Soldiers
Rio Bravo
1960
The Alamo
North to Alaska
1961
The Comancheros
1962
How The West Was Won
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1963
Mclintock!
1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
1967
El Dorado
The War Wagon
1969
True Grit
The Undefeated
1970
Chisum
Rio Lobo
1971
Big Jake
1972
The Cowboys
1973
Cahill-United States Marshal
The Train Robbers
1975
Rooster Cogburn
1976
The Shootist
John Wayne’s a personality.
Clint Eastwood is a FORCE.
When our daughter was eight, she thought she was in love with him and was CRUSHED to learn that, at sixty three, he was too old for her.
She couldn’t understand the concept.
John Wayne was mostly in westerns, and when it wasn’t a western, he was not comfortable in the role.
Clint Eastwood has had a much more diverse acting career, but has has many more R rated movies with more interesting story lines and roles.
Clint Eastwood - better actor and director
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I think it’s an unfair comparison as they are so different and from different generations/different genre westerns, etc.
I rate both #1 and put them in different categories.
Each clearly stands at the top of a different kind of western........
No, not a cop-out. Just the truth.
John Wayne.
Clint Eastwood but I suspect it has more to do with my age than anything.
Clint wayne...
Why not have them both. Like marriage, what does it matter.
John Eastwood or Clint Wayne, which shall it be?
I’m partial to Clint Eastwood. John was at the top for his time but Clint is a much better actor.
Happy 4th to the KINGofttax! Hope you and your family have a wonderful day. Now on to my usual JW screed:
There was a time when I was known on FR as the Duke’s #1 fan! After a thread about the Duke, I would get private messages from people sending me wonderful photos of THE MAN, lol.
That being said, it is unbearable for me to ever read threads on John Wayne because of the intense ignorance shown about acting values, patriotism and the Duke’s personal history.
He was one of the greatest film stars of the golden age of movies. He was a brilliant actor who trained, worked and delivered on every picture. Look at his body of work from “Stagecoach” to “True Grit.” If he didn’t know how to work out of westerns (and most actors can work in more than one genre) what do we make of his performances in “They Were Expendable”? and “Island in the Sky”? If he didn’t know how to act why did the greatest film directors clamor for his time?
Movies are a popular art but they are an ART. And not everyone has a good take on this form. It takes a trained eye and some training in theater, film history and culture to truly comprehend what comprises a good movie and more difficultly, what makes a good screen performance. The combination of sensitivity and concentration, amazing physical dexterity, humor and charisma are what make The Duke a great actor and a great star.
Until conservatives return to the arts instead of run from them, we will always be at a disadvantage in a liberal world.
Happy 4th to you!
John Wayne, without a doubt.
The Duke is a movie genre all by himself. Hollywood actors can be divided into two categories: John Wayne and everybody else.
My favorite Western movie of all time is “The Outlaw Jose Wales”.
I must have seen “Kelly’s Heroes” more times than I want to admit since I was a little boy when it came out.
Never-the-less, Clint Eastwood played a lot of characters that were like James Bond, sociopathic. John Wayne’s characters were always solidly good guys.
So I vote the Duke!
“MAKE MY DAY”
Gary Cooper, super duper; Montana born.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSFJdbqYiTc#t=24
I’ve never forgiven Clint Eastwood for “The Bridges of Madison County.”
Ahhh...a trick question.