Chisum
Summary:
John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) moves in on several local businesses and takes them over. By the time Chisum an... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Wayne - (John Chisum)
Forrest Tucker - (Lawrence Murphy)
Christopher George - (Dan Nodeen)
Ben Johnson - (James Pepper)
Glenn Corbett - (Pat Garrett)
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Review:
John Wayne was one of the few personalities who could carry a movie almost entirely on his personality, and Chisum is one of those movies. It came out in 1970, a year after Wayne won an Oscar for his self-referential role in True Grit and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch revolutionized the screen Western. Hollywood studios (behind ... Continue >>
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