John Wayne The Westerns eBook David Morrell
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David Morrell isn’t only an acclaimed thriller author and the creator of Rambo. He’s also a former professor of American Studies who writes in-depth profiles about film and music legends who changed our culture.
Few film actors had the lasting popularity of John Wayne, especially in westerns. During his lifetime, Wayne was a top-ten box office star for twenty-four years. Three decades after his death, a 2012 Harris poll continued to place him among the top 5 most-liked film actors. In this comprehensive essay, award-winner David Morrell analyzes Wayne’s career in westerns and explores his fascinating personality, including his Latin studies in high school and his skills as a chess player. Even Wayne’s most knowledgeable fans will be surprised by this insightful study.
Morrell’s fascination with Wayne motivated him to use this iconic actor as the inspiration for the main character of a historical novel LAST REVEILLE, which dramatizes America’s 1916 invasion of Mexico, supposedly to pursue the Mexican bandit, Pancho Villa, but actually to practice military exercises for America’s entry into World War I.
Critical reaction
“John Wayne the name still conjures political reaction and cinematic fascination. In this excellent e-essay, author David Morrell (First Blood) presents a thorough and evenhanded consideration of Wayne and his Westerns, from THE BIG TRAIL (1930) to THE SHOOTIST (1976). He’s precise about the narrative problems in THE SEARCHERS, insightful regarding the remarkable emotional range Wayne demonstrates in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, and mystified at the meaning critics find in RIO BRAVO. While also examining Wayne’s drinking (16 martinis before a Thanksgiving dinner), smoking (five packs a day on THE ALAMO) and expertise as a chess player, Morrell allows us to appreciate and understand how Wayne, ‘an undeniable phenomenon,’ helped create that unique film category John Wayne Westerns.”
—Tom Clagett, ROUNDUP MAGAZINE (WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA)
David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, he has written numerous New York Times bestsellers, including the classic Brotherhood of the Rose spy trilogy. The main character in Morrell’s western novel, Last Reveille, was inspired by Wayne’s career.
“David Morrell is, to me, the finest thriller writer living today, bar none.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Columbus Affair
“Morrell, an absolute master of the thriller, plays by his on rules and leaves you dazzled.”
—Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author of 77 Shadow Street
John Wayne The Westerns eBook David Morrell
I grew up on westerns. My granddad loved them, my grandmother loved them, my brother loved them and I love them still. Primarily the westerns of John Wayne. To this day I will happily hunker down in front of the television and watch Rooster Cogburn snarling at Robert Duvall "Fill your hands you son of an EXPLETIVE DELETED!", right before he tucks those reins into his teeth and rides down upon those varmints with his Winchester whirling and his Colt barking into the breeze.David Morrell loves John Wayne movies as well. I could tell that the very first time that I read his under-the-radar novel LAST REVEILLELast Reveille. I could see John Wayne in the pages of that story - angry, stalwart, saying what he means to say and backing it up right to the hilt. I came across this little book essay, JOHN WAYNE: THE WESTERNS just the other day and even though I am so broke that my banker is trending on Twitter, thanks to posting Youtube clips of my bank account - I decided to pull out 99 cents out of my digital wallet and spring for this little book.
It felt a little like thumbing through my old high school yearbook, revisiting those John Wayne movies that I love so dearly. I don't rightly know if I learned anything particularly new. I've read a heck of a lot about John Wayne and his movies as to approach obsession - but I was grinning the whole time that I read it. David Morrell has a way with words that far out-reaches any critical value that this little book essay might offer. If you dig the movies of John Wayne, if there is nothing that you would rather watch than an old school duster - then you REALLY ought to pick up this little book.
Now excuse me. I've got me a western to watch and I'm burning daylight..
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John Wayne The Westerns eBook David Morrell Reviews
As a teenager, (in the 60's ) I worked at a restaurant in Newport Beach, Calif. John Wayne was one of our frequent customers. He was a very nice man in person and he took an active interest in the lives of all of us teens who worked in the restaurant. He kept track of our high school foot ball teams, and what our goals in life were. He advised all of us girls to stay out of the "entertainment business" and suggested that we marry the guys "next door". He expressed very high morals and values. I treasure this book about John Wayne as I have treasured my memories of talking to him over a number of years.
This essay is a nice summary of Wayne's career in movie westerns, with some choice biographical tidbits thrown in. However, Morrell seems overly dismissive of what he refers to as the "Durango" films, and of what might be called Howard Hawk's "Rio Trio". Clearly in his later years Wayne sabotaged himself through his loyalty to mediocre directors and writers, and none of the Durango films never achieve a proper level of excellence. But some are quite interesting in concept, and dismissing them as a return to the "B" westerns of his youth ignores the fact that Wayne was also clearly experimenting with incorporating other genres. "The War Wagon" and to a lesser extent "The Train Robbers" are really caper films. "Wagon" is "Rififi" out West, following the tried and true formula of planning an elaborate robbery and gathering a motley crew of experts to pull it off. (It is also highly entertaining, thanks mostly to Kirk Douglas and Howard Keel.) Both films also feature the standard twist ending of a caper film. "Big Jake" is the western as suspense film, and I remember vividly how generally shocked critics were at the level of violence (for a John Wayne film), with even a small child being shot down during the opening sequence. The film's extended, suspenseful, and bloody climax is more like a horror movie than a western. One can argue all sides of Rio Bravo (it is leisurely paced, yes, but gorgeously photographed and well-staged), but El Dorado is pure entertainment, lean and funny Rio Bravo with the fat removed and Arthur Hunnicutt committing grand theft movie. Rio Lobo is just plain bad, except for the part where George Plimpton gets shot (a bit part in the movie was part of his TV special on the making of Rio Lobo. Wayne kept calling him "Pimpleton".)
If you like Wayne, if you hate Wayne no matter. This book is great!
You cannot ignore John Wayne if you are interested in the Hollywood film industry that is for sure. I found that out while I was reading this book. Forty years on the big screen? Common!!
There is too much in this book for me to really break it down and do it justice. Let me sum up a few items.
Wayne and Dietrich
The old westerns and the old stars like Tom Mix who was a phony cowboy.
building the set of the Alamo (Wayne directed, produced and stared in this) It flopped at box office)
Raul Walsh and Waynes first "A" movie. Why did Wayne not make another "A" for nine years? Read the book!
The economics of Wayne movies. Producer like Wayne because they could count on a bottom of at least $4 million at the box office. All's you had to do was keep the budget down to about $2.5 million and you were guaranteed to make money.
John Ford and Monument Valley.
Wayne was one of the few actors that DeMille never yelled at!
Wayne and Ward Bond and the actors black list. (brutal)
Wayne had investments, he even owned the hotel that the midgets in Wizard of Oz stayed at.
Francis X Bushman. (ended up being a maintenance man)
Batjac productions. Waynes production company.
Waynes slow and painful death. There is a photo of the book of Duke attending his last Academy awards ceremony. It is hard to believe it is him.
That is all I got for now. Beware that this is a pretty long book. It took me 5 good reading sessions to read it....but I loved every minute of it!
5 stars from me...tell me what you guys think
I grew up on westerns. My granddad loved them, my grandmother loved them, my brother loved them and I love them still. Primarily the westerns of John Wayne. To this day I will happily hunker down in front of the television and watch Rooster Cogburn snarling at Robert Duvall "Fill your hands you son of an EXPLETIVE DELETED!", right before he tucks those reins into his teeth and rides down upon those varmints with his Winchester whirling and his Colt barking into the breeze.
David Morrell loves John Wayne movies as well. I could tell that the very first time that I read his under-the-radar novel LAST REVEILLELast Reveille. I could see John Wayne in the pages of that story - angry, stalwart, saying what he means to say and backing it up right to the hilt. I came across this little book essay, JOHN WAYNE THE WESTERNS just the other day and even though I am so broke that my banker is trending on Twitter, thanks to posting Youtube clips of my bank account - I decided to pull out 99 cents out of my digital wallet and spring for this little book.
It felt a little like thumbing through my old high school yearbook, revisiting those John Wayne movies that I love so dearly. I don't rightly know if I learned anything particularly new. I've read a heck of a lot about John Wayne and his movies as to approach obsession - but I was grinning the whole time that I read it. David Morrell has a way with words that far out-reaches any critical value that this little book essay might offer. If you dig the movies of John Wayne, if there is nothing that you would rather watch than an old school duster - then you REALLY ought to pick up this little book.
Now excuse me. I've got me a western to watch and I'm burning daylight..
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