Chisum 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 the times as usual) continued to make the genre the old fashioned way for a few more years. Chisum follows all the traditional formulas, but, thanks to a solid performance by Wayne and some high-energy action sequences, it manages to be good entertainment. Ben_Johnson is pretty standard as the comic sidekick; remarkably, this was the film before his Oscar-winning performance in The_Last_Picture_Show. The director, Andrew McLaglen, went on to direct a number of lamentable -- though quite funny -- sequels to movies that he had nothing to do with originally, including Return From the River Kwai, Sergeant_Steiner, and The_Dirty_Dozen:_The_Next_Mission. Brendon Hanley, Rovi
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