In how many movies did John Wayne die?
Brad Post
Brad Post
john reece
writes:
>
> A friend and I have a bet. In how many movies did John Wayne die?
> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
> She says he died in at least five, but can't remember the other two.
You lose. He also dies in "The Sands of Iwo Jima" and "The Alamo".
I must confess I was pretty surprised the first time I saw TSOIJ when he bought
it. It was probably the one of the first WWII movies to have the principle
star get killed.
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> A friend and I have a bet. In how many movies did John Wayne die?
>
> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
>
> She says he died in at least five, but can't remember the other two.
>
>
> Mike Quigley, Tek Redmond
Mike,
YOU LOSE!
"The Alamo" and "The Sands of Iwo Jima"
How could you have forgotten these two?
Quigley
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> Mike Quigley, Tek Redmond
The complete list of Movies that John Wayne died in:
Central Airport (1933)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
The Alamo (1960)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Shootist (1976)
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Scott Gibson
>
> The complete list of Movies that John Wayne died in:
>
>Central Airport (1933)
>Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
>The Fighting Seabees (1944)
>Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
>Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
>The Alamo (1960)
>The Cowboys (1972)
>The Shootist (1976)
And, most assuredly, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962).
Scott
Scott Gibson
>
> A friend and I have a bet. In how many movies did John Wayne die?
> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
> She says he died in at least five, but can't remember the other two.
>
> Who wins the bet??
She does.
Scott
amy lanning
Wasn't there another movie where John Wayne died? I seem to remember
a movie with Kim Darby and Glen Campbell (the country singer) where
John played a salty old cowboy who died in the end. Anyone remember
this film or the year it was made?
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david.alba..jr
> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
I seem to recall two more films in which John Wayne died:
The Alamo
The Sands Of Iwo Jima
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John Eaton
< Wasn't there another movie where John Wayne died? I seem to remember
< a movie with Kim Darby and Glen Campbell (the country singer) where
< John played a salty old cowboy who died in the end. Anyone remember
< this film or the year it was made?
How could you forget an oscar winning movie like True Grit?
Can we really count "The man who shot,LV"? since he never really
died during the active part of the movie?
John Eaton
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Jeff Meyer
In article <122...@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> jo...@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes:
><<<<
>< Wasn't there another movie where John Wayne died? I seem to remember
>< a movie with Kim Darby and Glen Campbell (the country singer) where
>< John played a salty old cowboy who died in the end. Anyone remember
>< this film or the year it was made?
>----------
>How could you forget an oscar winning movie like True Grit?
Yeah, but Wayne doesn't die in the end of this one. Who could forget:
"Come see a fat old man sometime!"
[Wonderful theme music as Wayne rides horse over field and jumps fence, thus
designating his horse as a) a stunt-horse and b) pretty damn strong -- any
animal that could get that amount of weight over anything taller than a
discarded ice cream cone is in great shape.]
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Joan McGalliard
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>Wasn't there another movie where John Wayne died? I seem to remember
>a movie with Kim Darby and Glen Campbell (the country singer) where
>John played a salty old cowboy who died in the end. Anyone remember
>this film or the year it was made?
**SPOILER WARNING**
You are thinking of True Grit. No, Wayne did not die in
this one. Glen Campbell does, though (Yay!). The last
scene has Kim Darby, now nearly better after the snake bite,
showing Wayne the family grave plot, and inviting Wayne to
share it when he dies. Actually it is unfortunate that
Wayne didn't die in True Grit, because then they would not
have made the appalling sequel "Rooster Cogburn" with
Katherine Hepburn doing her embittered spinster for the
three zillionth time.
joan
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Deb Smith
>>< a movie with Kim Darby and Glen Campbell (the country singer) where
>>< John played a salty old cowboy who died in the end. Anyone remember
>>< this film or the year it was made?
>>----------
>>How could you forget an oscar winning movie like True Grit?
>
>Yeah, but Wayne doesn't die in the end of this one. Who could forget:
the sequel! "Rooster Cogburn and The Lady" would have been pretty boring
if the Duke had died in "True Grit".
Deb Smith
sbi...@desire.wright.edu
And he should have died in that AWFUL one he made about Genghis Khan.... ;-)
(C. Irby)
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>> In article <58...@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> mi...@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Quigley) writes:
>>>
>>> A friend and I have a bet. In how many movies did John Wayne die?
>>> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
>
Well, pilgrim, he may not have died *in* it, but he probably died *from* it...
_The Conqueror_ was filmed in the desert near the atomic test site in
Nevada (they may have shot in California, but fallout knows no boundaries).
All of the actors and stuntmen rolled around in the dirt for a number of
weeks, inhaling it, swallowing it, and getting it rubbed into their skin.
In the intervening years, most of the people involved have died from
various forms of cancer- in numbers way higher than average, and many
of them died pretty young...
The Duke died from cancer, too, but he smoked, so radiation probably
didn't do the whole job. But it probably helped...
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William December Starr
In article <865.26...@desire.wright.edu>,
sbi...@desire.wright.edu said in re the "In how many movies did
John Wayne die?" thread"
> And he should have died in that AWFUL one he made about Genghis
> Khan.... ;-)
The ironic thing is, he may have... a lot of that 1956 movie,
"The Conqueror," was filmed in the Nevada desert in areas very
close to a lot of fission and fusion nuclear test sites,
government-certified "safe" areas which were later discovered to
have dangerously high radiation levels. A disproportionate
amount of the people who worked on that movie contracted cancer
in later life, and the Duke himself, of course, eventually died
of lung cancer. (Of course, he also smoked a lot for most of his
life, so there certainly isn't any iron-clad cause/effect
connection between "The Conqueror" and his death.)
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David Hawkins
>>>> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
_The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_
the whole movie centers around the Senator's returning to that town
for John Wayne's funeral. JW had even tried to commit suicide
earlier in the movie.
later, david
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>>>>> A friend and I have a bet. In how many movies did John Wayne die?
>>>>> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
>
> _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_
>
Sands of Iwo Jima - and what about The Alamo? (Saw it once as a kid; can't even
remember whom he played...)
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> In article <19...@well.sf.ca.us>, dh...@well.sf.ca.us (David Hawkins) writes:
>>>>>> A friend and I have a bet. In how many movies did John Wayne die?
>>>>>> I say three: The Cowboys, The Shootist, Wake of the Red Witch.
>>
>> _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_
>>
>
> Sands of Iwo Jima - and what about The Alamo? (Saw it once as a kid; can't even
> remember whom he played...)
In Lee's Movie Quiz Lee Cochenour wrote:
>From: hal6000.UUCP!lee Oct 31 13:34:00 1989
>
>Results of Lee's Movie Quiz #5.
>
>5. Q: What do the following movies have in common? It is something more
> specific then just who was in them.
> Reap the Wild Wind
> The Fighting Seabees
> Wake of the Red Witch
> Sands of Iwo Jima
> The Alamo
> The Cowboys
> The Shootist
> R: 13 (46%) A: These are the movies that John Wayne died in.
>
/Hannu
Paul Hager
If memory serves, Wayne wasn't the only one who was a smoker.
I don't remember the list of actors anymore but I seem to
recall that all of the ones whose deaths were blamed on
nuclear testing were also smokers. (Was Susan Hayward in
that movie? She was a smoker.)
Also, after Wayne's first cancer operation in the early 60's,
didn't he start smoking again?
As to the movie -- "The Conqueror" falls into that category
of movies that are so bad they are good. It was a Howard
Hughes production -- from the same man who gave us the
Spruce Goose, Jane Russell, and the remarkably atrocious,
Josef von Sternberg directed bomb, "Jet Pilot", starring
The Duke and a young Janet Leigh. "Jet Pilot" was
a movie that Hughes intended a showcase for new technology
but it languished in the can for 7 years. When it was finally
released, the B-36 and F-86 were hopelessly obsolete aircraft.
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Jim Wood
death from cancer (in 1979), and links it to the filming of "The
Conqueror" in the Nevada desert near nuclear testing sites.
Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead were also in the movie, and they
both died of cancer, circa 1974.
I believe "a few" other people connected with the filming of the
movie also succumbed to cancer.
By the way, the movie was a real bomb ...
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