Chisum was John Wayne's first movie of the 1970s, the Western legend's final decade. Having had a cancerous lung removed a few years earlier, Duke had to rely on an oxygen mask and hide his ...
Although John ... estimates put the number of war dead at over 1 million and many historians argue this figure could be as high as 3 million Vietnamese victims alone, Wayne’s movie earned ...
John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later. The movie cost $1.6 million, making it one of the most expensive Westerns at that point in ...