You’ve got the Conqueror as a hit? Must’ve been people going just to see it out of curiosity? Nowadays regarded as one of the greatest miscastings in Hollywood history! Oh! And it probably killed him as well as his costars Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorhead & Pedrro Armandarez as well as the director Dick Powell. Yet the following years The Searchers is described as average but many critics consider it Wayne’s best role and rivals Shane and High Noon as perhaps the best western of the 1950s if not all time.
Duke was the Man. My favorite western star, although he represented the alittle far right. "Red River", "Rio Bravo", "Searchers" and "Man who shot Liberty Valance" are masterpieces of cinema. 😅👍
I remember when John Wayne's movie "The Green Berets" came out that same year as the TET Offensive; mothers across America finally said hell no, I'm not sending my child off to die in some God- forsaken jungle country I know nothing about- this of course referred to the scene where a doomed Beret was snatched up by a foot snare and graphically impaled on a punji stake panel. Wayne never could recover from this *cinematic tribute to the American soldier* that absolutely had the reverse effect of seeming to be endorsing the war, thus arousing public indignation and opposition in certain sectors. Where are the mothers of yesteryear; they are needed once more? In memoriam to a fallen classmate from back in the day: Frank Paul Jenczyk, Jr Private First Class B CO, 2ND BN, 39TH INFANTRY, 9TH INF DIV, USARV Army of the United States Cambridge, Massachusetts March 09, 1947 to May 10, 1968 FRANK P JENCZYK Jr is on the Wall at Panel 58E, Line 15
@@johnhallett5846 Film “The Green Berets”: Wayne co-directed and starred in “The Green Berets,” a film that was intended to promote patriotism and support for the war effort. The movie was criticized for its simplistic and inaccurate portrayal of the conflict, as well as its stereotypical depiction of Vietnamese characters. Letter to a paraplegic veteran: After the release of “The Green Berets,” Wayne received a letter from a paraplegic Vietnam veteran who wrote, “I gave my dead dick for John Wayne.” This quote was widely reported and reflects the negative reaction many veterans had to Wayne’s film. Some quotes from John Wayne himself: “If nothing else, [my visit] gave the kids something else to write home about.” (On his visit to Vietnam, quoted in “When Duke Met the Grunts” by John Wayne Enterprises) “Out here, due process is a bullet.” (From “The Green Berets,” quoted in a film review by Roger Ebert) It’s worth noting that John Wayne’s comments about Vietnam were often colored by his conservative politics and patriotic fervor. His views were widely criticized by those who opposed the war, and his film “The Green Berets” is now largely regarded as a propaganda piece with significant historical inaccuracies.
@@johnhallett5846 It’s worth noting that John Wayne’s comments about Vietnam were often colored by his conservative politics and patriotic fervor. His views were widely criticized by those who opposed the war, and his film “The Green Berets” is now largely regarded as a propaganda piece with significant historical inaccuracies.
@@BeachsideHank yeah and we know how objective the left is about anyone or anything that opposes them. Nothing in that film was inaccurate at it was based on the Robin Moore Book The Green Berets. Every incident in that film came from that book which is HIGHLY RESPECTED in the Special Forces Community.Your claims about historical inaccuracies is bunk.
He was the imperial spy (the guy with the trunk) who points out the group just went to the hangar with the Millennium Falcon on Tatooine. I'm not joking.
Duke-land is anything related to John Wayne the greatest star of the cinema, a splendid actor. God bless him.
He was the king of the westerns when I was a kid growing up aka the Duke
You’ve got the Conqueror as a hit? Must’ve been people going just to see it out of curiosity? Nowadays regarded as one of the greatest miscastings in Hollywood history! Oh! And it probably killed him as well as his costars Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorhead & Pedrro Armandarez as well as the director Dick Powell. Yet the following years The Searchers is described as average but many critics consider it Wayne’s best role and rivals Shane and High Noon as perhaps the best western of the 1950s if not all time.
Duke was the Man. My favorite western star, although he represented the alittle far right. "Red River", "Rio Bravo", "Searchers" and "Man who shot Liberty Valance" are masterpieces of cinema. 😅👍
I remember when John Wayne's movie "The Green Berets" came out that same year as the TET Offensive; mothers across America finally said hell no, I'm not sending my child off to die in some God- forsaken jungle country I know nothing about- this of course referred to the scene where a doomed Beret was snatched up by a foot snare and graphically impaled on a punji stake panel. Wayne never could recover from this *cinematic tribute to the American soldier* that absolutely had the reverse effect of seeming to be endorsing the war, thus arousing public indignation and opposition in certain sectors. Where are the mothers of yesteryear; they are needed once more?
In memoriam to a fallen classmate from back in the day: Frank Paul Jenczyk, Jr Private First Class B CO, 2ND BN, 39TH INFANTRY, 9TH INF DIV, USARV Army of the United States Cambridge, Massachusetts March 09, 1947 to May 10, 1968 FRANK P JENCZYK Jr is on the Wall at Panel 58E, Line 15
and yet it was a box office hit. and he went on to have other hits and win an Oscar so your claim he never recovered is total complete garbage
@@johnhallett5846 Film “The Green Berets”: Wayne co-directed and starred in “The Green Berets,” a film that was intended to promote patriotism and support for the war effort. The movie was criticized for its simplistic and inaccurate portrayal of the conflict, as well as its stereotypical depiction of Vietnamese characters.
Letter to a paraplegic veteran: After the release of “The Green Berets,” Wayne received a letter from a paraplegic Vietnam veteran who wrote, “I gave my dead dick for John Wayne.” This quote was widely reported and reflects the negative reaction many veterans had to Wayne’s film.
Some quotes from John Wayne himself:
“If nothing else, [my visit] gave the kids something else to write home about.” (On his visit to Vietnam, quoted in “When Duke Met the Grunts” by John Wayne Enterprises)
“Out here, due process is a bullet.” (From “The Green Berets,” quoted in a film review by Roger Ebert)
It’s worth noting that John Wayne’s comments about Vietnam were often colored by his conservative politics and patriotic fervor. His views were widely criticized by those who opposed the war, and his film “The Green Berets” is now largely regarded as a propaganda piece with significant historical inaccuracies.
@@johnhallett5846
It’s worth noting that John Wayne’s comments about Vietnam were often colored by his conservative politics and patriotic fervor. His views were widely criticized by those who opposed the war, and his film “The Green Berets” is now largely regarded as a propaganda piece with significant historical inaccuracies.
@@BeachsideHank yeah and we know how objective the left is about anyone or anything that opposes them.
Nothing in that film was inaccurate at it was based on the Robin Moore Book The Green Berets. Every incident in that film came from that book which is HIGHLY RESPECTED in the Special Forces Community.Your claims about historical inaccuracies is bunk.
@@johnhallett5846 You have a "savior" complex. This is driven by your own failure to cope with life's variables.
Star Wars???? Did I miss something here??
He was the imperial spy (the guy with the trunk) who points out the group just went to the hangar with the Millennium Falcon on Tatooine. I'm not joking.
@ so they used his modified voice in the scene…but he wasn’t physically there.
@@rprince418 IT was his voice they used all mixed up; seems to have been confirmed
Star Wars? As if.
Star Wars??? WTF
Drivel.