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...actor, Wayne could only play one role- himself. They called him larger than life, and his ungainly bulk probably had a lot to do with that. He towered over Injuns, Nips, and Gooks. Most of Wayne's movies had one-word titles-McClintock, Branigan, McQ, Chisum, Stagecoach- so that his legions of addled fans could remember them. And his movies were all Black and White; Panavision never brought the colorings of moral ambiguity to these flicks. You were a baddie or you were a goodie; those who opposed the Duke were deranged sadists who frequently...
...that the westerns survive year after year. Perhaps one of the reasons, in addition to the excitement, the gunplay and the rest-and this may be a square observation-the good guys come out ahead in the westerns, the bad guys lose. In the end, as [Chisum] particularly pointed out, even in the old West there was a time when there was no law. But the law eventually came, and the law was important from the standpoint of not only prosecuting the guilty, but also seeing that those who were guilty had a proper trial...
...ghastly gunplay in San Rafael in a curious way pointed up the hazards of the President as film critic. In praising the new John Wayne film Chisum, he seems to have overlooked the fact that in it the good guys prevail over the bad guys only by taking the law into their own hands. That, of course, is what the "revolutionaries" of Marin County were attempting with such bloody results. Vigilantism appeals not only to conservatives; it is no accident that S.D.S. members, too, loved the John Wayne of True Grit, last year's western in which Marshal Cogburn...
Wayne's new movie, Chisum, casts him in the still uncomfortable role of paterfamilias, an aging, worldly-wise ranch owner who spends a good bit of time looking down from a mountain surveying his nearby spread. It is sometimes difficult from that vantage to determine what he has more of-acres or subplots. His niece Sallie (Pamela McMyler)-his brother's girl, daughter of the woman the Duke himself loved and lost-has come to stay. She has been seeing a good deal of that young trail hand from over at the Tunstall place, boy name of Billy...
Soon Scandalous John and Paco, mounted on two broken-down nags, are relentlessly driving Old Blue up the Chisum Trail toward the distant stock yards. For weeks through sun, sand and storm, they plod onward, encountering temptation and incomprehension. Nearly everybody along the way tries to persuade John to desist. As for the neatly laid-out fences that block their path, he blithely cuts them. "If you want to get some place in this world," he says, "you've got to cut fence now and again . . . The extent of a man's fences is the extent...