{"id":3130,"date":"2017-10-24T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2018-04-24T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:04:02","slug":"john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Movies I Missed Part 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/#The_Magnificent_Showman_aka_Circus_World_1964\" title=\"The Magnificent Showman (aka Circus World) (1964)\">The Magnificent Showman (aka Circus World) (1964)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/#The_Greatest_Story_Ever_Told_1965\" title=\"The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)\">The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/#Hellfighters_1968\" title=\"Hellfighters (1968)\">Hellfighters (1968)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/#McQ_1974\" title=\"McQ (1974)\">McQ (1974)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/#Branigan_1975\" title=\"Branigan (1975)\">Branigan (1975)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Magnificent_Showman_aka_Circus_World_1964\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>The Magnificent Showman (aka Circus World) (1964)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Another John Wayne movie I saw as a kid when it first came out and I remember the spectacle of the circus boat keeling over in the harbour, and the climax at the end of The Magnificent Showman (aka Circus World) when the giant tent burns down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3132\" src=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/circusworld-2.jpg\" alt=\"Circus World with John Wayne poster\" width=\"700\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/circusworld-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/circusworld-2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The intervening years, however, have erased from my mind how fairly dull it all was in between those sequences. This may be down to the fact that there were six writers involved in the story and screenplay, which is never a good sign, to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, you get Hollywood veteran Ben Hecht and director Nicholas Ray but the minute I heard JW utter the line \u2018Make up your mind \u2013 or you\u2019re forever dead\u2019, you just know it could only be James Edward Grant.<\/p>\n<p>The story, as such, involves circus manager Matt Masters (JW pf course), accompanied by his other alliteratively named associates Cap Carson and Aldo Alfredo, trying to rescue a European tour when their boat sinks in Barcelona harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside all this is an ongoing bit of domestic between JW and Rita Hayworth, Ms Hayworth playing the wayward mother of Claudia Cardinale, who I have to say looks absolutely splendid in her sequined trapeze costume.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, they should have called the film The Magnificent Showgirl instead.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder I experienced strange warm sensations in my nether regions when I first saw the film at the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon Wayne should have got his first Oscar here as there\u2019s one interminable sequence when he\u2019s watching the clowns do their bit and he\u2019s almost persuading me that he actually finds them funny.<\/p>\n<p>Which of course they\u2019re not. Clowns are not funny. They\u2019re just\u2026 weird.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, the sight of Wayne kicking a dwarf \u2013 sorry, I meant small person -\u2013 in the backside would be enough to have today\u2019s PC brigade up in arms. Still, at least he didn\u2019t throw him across the ring. Now that would have been something to see.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xI7xRNSd7Z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As for animal welfare groups, they\u2019d all drop dead from a heart attack at the way the circus animals are treated throughout the film.<\/p>\n<p>The director Henry Hathaway helmed six JW films and they fall specifically into two groups. The Shepherd of the Hills, The Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit \u2013 good. Legend of the Lost, North to Alaska and The Magnificent Showman \u2013 not so good.<\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019m right in saying that this film was also the last gasp from producer Samuel Bronston who specialised in financing star-laden widescreen epics such as El Cid and 55 Days in Peking outside of Hollywood before his production company underwent bankruptcy proceedings in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Too much circus and not enough drama.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3133\" src=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/greatest-1.jpg\" alt=\"Greatest Story Ever Told John Wayne Poster\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Greatest_Story_Ever_Told_1965\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t intending to actually include this film in my roundup of JW movies, mainly because he only has a \u2013 thankfully \u2013 small cameo role in this overwrought, overlong, misjudged Hollywood biblical epic.<\/p>\n<p>I changed my mind when I realised that a lot of people my age, whenever John Wayne\u2019s name came into the conversation, nearly always referenced JW as the Roman centurion who, standing beneath the cross as Jesus dies, utters the immortal line, \u2018Truly this man was the son of Gad\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, this is the guy who starred in some of the most revered classic Westerns of all time, not to mention non-cowboy efforts such as The Quiet Man and Sands of Iwo Jima, but his legacy appears to revolve around the utterance of one line of dialogue in a film that bestowed the kiss of death, along with Monty Python\u2019s Life of Brian of course, on any more attempts by Hollywood to produce guest-star laden vehicles dealing with the life of Christ \u2013 Pat Boone as the Angel in the Tomb, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/OM5kspKA4R4<\/p>\n<p>With a running time of nearly four hours when originally premiered in 1965, it\u2019s just too long and just too boring to contemplate watching again. Which is a shame really, because the director, George Stevens, had of course previously helmed such highly revered Hollywood movies as Gunga Din, A Place in the Sun, Giant and the classic Western Shane.<\/p>\n<p>This, his penultimate directing effort, was greeted with derision and poor box-office results upon its release, and Wayne\u2019s participation drew the most criticism of all. A bad day at the studio for everyone concerned I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>Not even one for the most die-hard of JW fans.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3134\" src=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hellfighters-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hellfighters lobby card with John Wayne\" width=\"1024\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hellfighters-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hellfighters-1-684x550.jpg 684w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hellfighters-1-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hellfighters_1968\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Hellfighters (1968)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Another one of those rare beasts, a John Wayne film I\u2019d never bothered watching before.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d read a review of the film in Lee Pfeiffer\u2019s John Wayne Scrapbook which didn\u2019t really give it a glowing critique so I was expecting the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly it\u2019s not the finest moment for those involved and is probably the least interesting of the five movies Wayne starred in for Andrew McLaglen.<\/p>\n<p>The script isn\u2019t exactly up there with other JW movies scripted by Clair Huffaker such as The Comancheros and The War Wagon either, the story at times coming across more like The Jim Hutton and Katherine Ross Show than a Wayne vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The usual suspects \u2013 Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner, Cliff Roberson and even Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez &#8211; help to round out the cast, with Vera Miles from The Searchers playing JWs estranged wife.<\/p>\n<p>What unexpectedly elevated the film for me was the oil well action sequences, which I certainly didn\u2019t expect to be as realistically presented as they are here. Wayne\u2019s character, Chance Buckman (holy Rio Bravo), is obviously based upon the famous oil well firefighter Red Adair, who, along with his colleagues \u2018Boot\u2019s Mansen and \u2018Coots\u2019 Matthews, &#8211; love those nicknames &#8211; was special adviser on the film.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4SpXwWLOIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure exactly how they created the oil fires seen in the movie \u2013 I should have asked McLaglen myself when I had the chance but I probably didn\u2019t want him to know I hadn\u2019t actually seen the film \u2013 but it\u2019s fair to say it really does look as though Wayne and his co-stars are in the thick of the action during these sequences.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not really that much else to say about Hellfighters if I\u2019m honest.<\/p>\n<p>At times it looks like a TV movie of the week, and Jim Hutton, playing Wayne\u2019s business partner, and Katherine Ross, as JWs daughter, are woefully inadequate when it comes to supposedly representing the generation of young hipsters that bloomed in America at the time the film was released.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it delivers the action as required, which sometimes is all you need in a Wayne movie.<\/p>\n<p>As JW non-Westerns go not as bad as I thought it might be.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3135\" src=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/McQ-1.jpg\" alt=\"McQ with John Wayne\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/McQ-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/McQ-1-728x547.jpg 728w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/McQ-1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McQ_1974\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>McQ (1974)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Not having seen this film before, I was expecting to be disappointed, what with 63-year-old Wayne playing a cop who obviously should have retired about twenty years before.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad to say, just like Hellfighters, it was much better than I expected, mainly due to a good supporting cast and a classic action director at the helm, John Sturges.<\/p>\n<p>Strange to think that Sturges, mainly know for classic Westerns such as The Law and Jake Wade, Gunfight at the OK Corral and The Magnificent 7, finally got to work with Wayne on a police thriller, but the end result is fairly enjoyable as far as the cop genre goes.<\/p>\n<p>JW plays Lon McHugh, a combination of characters usually associated with Steve McQueen\u2019s and Clint Eastwood\u2019s police capers &#8211; complete with lookalike Bullitt car and a Dirty Harry-style contempt for due process of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The plot revolves around police corruption and there\u2019s a welcome noirish element to the film that lifts it out of the ordinary. Of course \u2013 spoiler alert \u2013 it was obvious the criminally underused Clu Gulager was a bad cop, otherwise there\u2019d have been no use casting him in the film in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4m5Ssfi4hQU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also refreshing to see Wayne playing opposite a woman nearly his age for once, in this case, Colleen Dewhurst as the ill-fated Myra, the bartender and junkie with a heart of gold. In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say that John Wayne himself delivers a finely nuanced performance in this film, something I find missing from his most of his late career movies.<\/p>\n<p>You just know that any cop movie that has a \u2018Special Military Armament\u2019 credit in the opening titles is going to be somewhat over the top, and McQ does not disappoint in that respect.<\/p>\n<p>The climactic set piece at the end of the film, a car chase on the beach, delivers the goods, JW blowing the baddies away in style with a machine gun that blasts 32 rounds in one and a half seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This being the 70s there\u2019s a preponderance of stereotypical black jive-ass mofo\u2019s dropping in and out of camera range, and I wouldn\u2019t be at all surprised if Elmer Bernstein\u2019s derivative Shaft-like soundtrack didn\u2019t attract a plagiarism suit from Isaac Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, it\u2019s a movie I\u2019d watch again if it ever turns up on TV so I can\u2019t say fairer than that.<\/p>\n<p>8 out of 10 for all involved \u2013 but only 3 out of 10 for JWs awful toupee.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Branigan_1975\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Branigan (1975)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3138 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/branigan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/branigan.jpg 538w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/branigan-289x550.jpg 289w, https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/branigan-300x571.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><br \/>\nAnother one of those JW films I never got around to watching all the way through.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily it turns out to be a bit more serious and hard-nosed than I originally thought. I quite liked the \u2018knock knock\u2019 joke at the beginning of the film, which was then revisited towards the end, and there\u2019s a bit of a comedic knockabout quality obvious in the saloon brawl scene in a London pub, but overall I was pleasantly surprised at how serious the film took itself.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I never thought I\u2019d get to hear JW use the expression \u2018cool\u2019, but then what with this being the 1970s and all, I guess the scriptwriters thought it was time for old Duke to get hep to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The film panders somewhat to a non-British audience brought up on the idea that London is still immersed in fog, with police officers who call their chief \u2018Guv\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing was a cheeky lovable \u2018gor blimey he\u2019s a real toff and no mistaken cockles and eels apples and pears\u2019 cockney character thrown into the blender to reinforce the stereotype of English characters that Americans in particular still know and love, but thankfully the scriptwriters refrained from going there.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a strange one this, but according to JW \/ Brannigan, we were all eligible for free dental care back ion the 1970s. That\u2019s a new one on me although as I never visited the dentist on a regular basis back then I might have missed out.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, the English lady constable played by Judy Geeson would never have used the word felony to describe a criminal act.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s quite a nice stunt shot at Tower Bridge in which a couple of cars leap across the gap as the bridge is raised, and a tense sequence in a rainy street where a killer attempts to blow Mr Brannigan away with a machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>A rather elongated stakeout sequence filmed in Piccadilly Circus leaves you with the feeling that you\u2019re watching a travelogue rather than a movie but, having worked in and around London when the film was actually being made back in 1974, it brought back a lot of memories from over forty years ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAhzli9jbKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I should say, however, that my knowledge of famous landmarks in our fair capital city means I was rather mystified that Brannigan was confronted with a view of the Albert Memorial, which is based in Hyde Park after the booby-trapped toilet blew out the wall of the flat he was staying in opposite Battersea Park.<\/p>\n<p>Also \u2013 sorry, I\u2019m in nitpicking mode right now &#8211; there\u2019s no way Richard Attenborough as the police chief would have had such a commanding view over the Thames from his office in Scotland Yard as it\u2019s nowhere near the river.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the line when Judy Geeson picks JW up at the airport after being told to look for someone \u2018slightly smaller than the Statue of Liberty\u2019 in reference to John Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>One question though; how the bloody hell did Brannigan manage to get what looks like a Smith and Wesson handgun past customs upon arrival in England? I know security can be somewhat lax on occasion in the land we call Blighty but I\u2019d say that\u2019s a bit of a fantasy on behalf of the writers. I hope it is anyway.<\/p>\n<p>There was another worrying moment when it looked as if reality was about to jump out of the window again when JW and Judy Geeson, who looks about twelve-years old in this film, appeared as if they were about to indulge in a spot of inappropriate snogging \u2013 a snog being British colloquial slang for suck face to the initiated \u2013 but luckily the moment made its excuses and left.<\/p>\n<p>So, even though Duke is way-way too old at 67 years of age to be playing a fish-out-of-water hard-nosed Chicago cop adrift in old London town, he still manages to maintain a modicum of dignity.<\/p>\n<p>One final comment. There\u2019s a sequence in which Brannigan tracks down the bagman who has fooled the police at the Piccadilly Circus stakeout \u2013 I\u2019m not going to bother you with too many plot details as I assume I\u2019m addressing the converted here.<\/p>\n<p>To my complete surprise the guy in question, who Duke dunks in the water, is played by a famous English comedian who found celebrity on British television about twenty years ago in a comedy series called Blackadder, starring Rowan Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p>The actor in question, Tony Robinson, is known throughout the land as Baldrick, Blackadder\u2019s ignorant and stupid sidekick. Baldrick being thrown into the Thames by John Wayne is like an American audience watching an unknown Woody Harrelson being beaten to a pulp by Roger Moore in a 70s Bond film.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a bloody good show.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, cowboys and cowgirls, LBGT-ers, those, them and any of you gender fluid readers who may have wandered across my reviews of JW films over the last 18 months or so.<\/p>\n<p>By my count, I\u2019ve covered just over 80 of the films John Wayne appeared in since I started writing these articles last year, so I\u2019m going to take a break for a while. One option is to go back and take a look at the movies John Wayne made in the 1930s in between The Big Trail and Stagecoach.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a lot of films to check out so I\u2019m going to need to get match fit before taking that kind of task on.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank all of you who have posted comments \u2013 most of them positive I\u2019m glad to say \u2013 since I wrote my first article back in March last year on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/10-best-john-wayne-westerns-from-my-childhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top 10 John Wayne westerns<\/a> I saw as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>The surprisingly positive reaction to that article spurred me on to continue writing about my favourite movie genre and here we are, approximately 32 articles and 80,000 words later, and I feel I\u2019ve only just scratched the surface on the subject of Western movies.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be revising my original article on the top <a href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/10-best-john-wayne-westerns-from-my-childhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 John Wayne Westerns<\/a> at some point again soon as well as continuing work on a book I started to write a while ago that features John Wayne as one of the characters in the story.<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_first]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=mostlywesterns-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1521170266&amp;asins=1521170266&amp;linkId=94805b8a572636e98346df49046ecec4&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=547513&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe>[\/one_half_first][one_half_last]I\u2019d also like to take this opportunity to let those of you know who wanted a paperback version of my earlier book Connemara Days that it is now available in that format from Amazon should you still be interested in owning your own copy.[\/one_half_last]<br \/>\nIn the mean-time, until we meet again, happy trails, hasta la vista, vaya condios and adios to you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magnificent Showman (aka Circus World) (1964) Another John Wayne movie I saw as a kid when it first came out and I remember the spectacle of the circus boat keeling over in the harbour, and the climax at the &#8230; <a title=\"John Wayne Movies I Missed Part 8\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-movies-missed-part-8\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about John Wayne Movies I Missed Part 8\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[61,62,54,42,64,63,104],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}