<\/span><\/h3>\nIt should be noted that we\u2019re only dealing with individual villains here otherwise, I would have nominated in my number one spot the whole of the Mexican army as depicted in The Alamo as the worst villains of all in any John Wayne film \u2013 ever.<\/p>\n
They stuck our boy to a wooden door with a lance, for God\u2019s sake. Where\u2019s the dignity in that? I also note I might be flying too close to the flame of political correctness in making the Comanche chief Scar the best of the John Wayne Western bad guys, but let\u2019s be honest here \u2013 he was a very nasty man.<\/p>\n
It might be rather fanciful of me but I can distinctly remember seeing The Searchers at the age of about 4 or 5 years old when the film was first released. The reason I\u2019m able to remember this is down to two reasons.<\/p>\n
First of all, we were living on the island of Malta as my dad was in the Royal Navy at the time and it used to get quite hot in the evenings so there was some kind of contraption that rolled the roof of the cinema back so that you could look up at the open night sky.<\/p>\n
The other reason I remember the film is because there\u2019s a scene early on in which the family are about to be attacked in their cabin and they sneak the little girl Debbie out of a side window. She hides in the cemetery where her grandmother is buried at which point we see the shadow of Scar appear on the gravestone behind her.<\/p>\n
As a child, I\u2019m watching another child who is in a highly threatening situation so it obviously had quite an effect on me. My empathy with Debbie quadrupled into sheer terror when the screen was filled with a close-up of Henry Brandon in full Comanche warrior mode.<\/p>\n
So, because he scared the crap out of me when I was still too young to go to school I nominate Scar as the most memorable of all the bad guys that appeared in any JW Western.<\/p>\n
And the last man standing award goes to Claude Akins in Rio Bravo. He doesn\u2019t die, he just gets duffed up by Dean Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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