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Clint or The Duke

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jun 2, 2008.

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Who made the best westerns (acting only!) Clint Eastwood or John Wayne?

  1. Clint Eastwood

    24 vote(s)
    63.2%
  2. John Wayne

    14 vote(s)
    36.8%
  1. Bob Slydell

    Bob Slydell Active Member

    I love that line.

    I always said I'm naming y dog Dog because of Big Jake.

    And while not a Western, I love, love, love The Quiet Man.
     
  2. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Was "The Undefeated" the Wayne movie with Roman Gabriel as an Indian?
    I interviewed Gabriel once in the '80s. He had the movie poster in his office.
     
  3. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Speaking of ex-Rams QBs, Vince Ferragamo now runs a real estate office ("Touchdown Realty") about 1 mile from where I used to live in SoCal.
     
  4. pallister

    pallister Guest

    The first memory I have of ever noticing a newspaper was the day after John Wayne died. My parents were dragging me around with them in our small town and the paper in the rack outside the grocery store, with the banner headline saying John Wayne died, stopped my dad in his tracks. My dad LOVED John Wayne, and I think that's also the first time I can remember realizing my father was sad.
     
  5. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    That was a stupid movie, by the way.
     
  6. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    How about Randolph Scott and John Wayne in "The Spoilers"?

    Better yet, I give you the Duke and Jimmy Stewart (and Lee Marvin) in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." That one had a great line after Duke revealed to Jimmy that he, not Jimmy, had killed Valance: "Cold-blooded murder, but I can live with it."
     
  7. SportsDude

    SportsDude Active Member

    My absolute favorite movie of all time. Stewart, Duke and Marvin are three of my all time favorite actors, but Edmund O'Brien, the scrappy one-man newspaper, steals the movie.
     
  8. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    "When fact becomes legend, print the legend."

    :)
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Good point. You are correct.
     
  10. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Absolutely. But it did give us Rock Hudson wearing a hat with a feather in it, which turned out to be prescient, in a way.
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  11. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Who in the general public could have guessed in 1955 that during the filming of "Giant," Rock Hudson and James Dean would have been hotter for each other than either of them would have been for Liz Taylor, who was a certified goddess at that point in history?

    Things that make you go hmmmm........
     
  12. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    James Dean? Really? Ya learn something new everyday.
     
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