The Top 10 John Wayne Movies (Ranked by a Historian)

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Real quick, before I start this podcast, I need you, if you're

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watching, to put in your favorite John Wayne movie in the comments.

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Just before we start, put your favorite John Wayne movie in the comments,

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and then feel free to comment all throughout this podcast video.

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McClintock!: If you're my father, if you love me, you'll shoot him.

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Well?

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I'm your father,

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They tell me you're a man with true grit.

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What do you want?

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Speak up.

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Son of a bitch.

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What did you say?

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You goddamn son of a bitch.

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Say that again.

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They weren't afraid of the army, and they weren't

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afraid of the Texas Rangers.

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And they thought his grandfather, Big Jake McCandles, was dead.

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He wasn't.

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We don't go back without the General.

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They're elite corps commandos, nameless and faceless in a

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hundred newsreels and dispatches.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: That's my steak Valance.

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You heard him, dude.

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Pick it up.

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Welcome to Talk With History.

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I'm your host, Scott, here with my wife and historian, Jen.

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Hello.

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Today's podcast is part of a series we call Watch with History.

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The Watch with History series will focus on your favorite historical

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films, where Jen and I will review the Hollywood historic classics we all

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know and love, while also discussing the history behind these films,

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along with some interesting facts.

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We hope you enjoy.

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Watch with history.

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Three, two, one.

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John Wayne, the Duke, a legend of the silver screen,

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synonymous with the American West.

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But with over 160 films to his name, where do you even begin?

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Today we're tackling that very question.

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We're diving into ten iconic John Wayne movies.

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From a movie many consider genre defining to some lesser known gems.

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We'll be analyzing performances, dissecting iconic scenes,

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and sparking debate.

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Was True Grit truly John Wayne's finest hour?

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We've reviewed that one here.

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Did McClintock strike the right balance between comedy and action?

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And can one of our movies on this list hold its own against his western classics?

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So saddle up, film fans, and prepare for a critical ride

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through John Wayne's filmography.

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Let's see which movies truly stand the test of time.

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Stay tuned for our ranking and review of the top 10 John Wayne movies.

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All right, Jen, we're here.

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I was so excited.

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We have been planning this for, we've been wanting to do this for probably

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about a year.

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Yeah, so we visited John Wayne's birthplace.

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Yes.

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And I'm a huge John Wayne fan.

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And I gave you my list of top 10.

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Yes.

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And told you to watch them.

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Now you had seen some because we've seen like I'd seen like one or two.

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We've saw the quiet man.

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And we've been to Cong.

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We'll talk about that.

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But I made you watch my top 10.

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And you didn't feel they were numbered quite how you

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felt.

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I did not.

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So this is so the order that we're going is we're going to go from 10 to one,

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we're going to start with Jen's number 10.

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And I'm gonna let you guys know kind of where I rank.

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These movies as they go through, but we're going to go Jen's from Jen's number 10

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all the way up through through number one.

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Yes.

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And there's going to be some John Wayne movies that

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we don't even talk about.

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So if, if there's a top 10 of yours that we don't mention,

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please put that in the comments.

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I will talk a little bit about some John Wayne movies I saw at

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Turner Classic movies that don't make the list, but I got to hear.

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certain people talk about making those movies with him.

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And I do love all John Wayne movies, but these are the top

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10.

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Yeah.

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Specifically, there will be 159 that do not make this list.

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So number 10 on your list was

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Fighting from the sky John Wayne!

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Fearless men who jump and die Jim Hutton!

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Men who mean just what they say The brave men of the Green Beret A hundred

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men, you'll test today But only three win the Green Beret Patrick Wayne!

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---. Colonel Mike Kirby, the pro.

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Beckworth, the doubter.

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Sergeant Muldoon, the bull.

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Doc McGee, the dependable.

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Captain Nim, the hater.

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Sergeant Peterson, the conman.

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Sergeant Kowalski, the killer.

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Sergeant Provo, the humble.

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You'll know them all in the Green Berets.

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The Green Berets came out July 4th, 1968.

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So the movie is about a cynical reporter played by David . Jansen, who is

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opposed to the Vietnam Wars, sent to cover the conflict and assigned to tag

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along with a group of Green Berets.

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Led by the tough as nails Colonel Mike Kirby, played by our very own John

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Wayne, the team is given a top secret mission to sneak behind enemy lines and

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kidnap an important Viet Cong commander.

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Along the way, the reporter learns to respect why America is

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involved in the war and helps to save the life of a war orphan.

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whose life has been destroyed by the conflict.

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So, Jen, why did this kind of make it past all the other ones and, and This

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is one of the few, I think it might be the only non Western one on this list.

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Yeah, I think it is my only non Western one.

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Because this was a really, I think this was like, to me, John Wayne's a

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little old to be playing this role, but to me it was his love letter

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to America and to the war effort.

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And it's very pro military because of the kind of criticism America

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was getting at Vietnam at the time.

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And so John Wayne made this movie to show there really is no winner in war.

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And as much as people are criticizing the American soldier out there,

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they are really trying to do good.

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something good.

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And they are trying to do something for the people of Vietnam.

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And so that was kind of what he was doing here.

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Now it is based on a book, a 1965 book.

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You'll find John Wayne makes movies pretty quickly after books come out.

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It seems to be his M.

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O.

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that if a book comes out that's really good, he tries to grab those book rights

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and then play the lead in it pretty

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quickly.

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And I think that if I I think I remember reading that was the case for this book.

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He had purchased the book rights for this book specifically, and I actually

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even found an interesting fact.

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So he had actually reached out to the president of the United States for

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permission to use the name Green Beret.

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Yeah.

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And

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he got a lot of pro military permission.

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They filmed at Fort Benning in Georgia.

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They got use of all these military aircraft.

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There's a C 130 in there.

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There's a A 1 Skyraider, a Huey.

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And so they're using military aircraft.

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So it's one of those, the military does that even today, if it's kind of pro

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military, they will allow the use of their

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aircraft in a movie.

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Sure.

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I mean, think Top Gun.

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Yeah.

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And or True Lies.

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But so that is, I really like this movie because of what John Wayne is

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trying to do, what he's trying to say.

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And I appreciate even though he's in his sixties, he's playing

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this part, but to me, it just, it holds a special place in my heart.

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I think of green berets.

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I think of John Wayne.

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Yeah.

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So now for me, for this one, I watched this one and it was a little bit

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of an eye roller for me, but I kind of got into it after a little while

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because it was, I took notes, you know, during my watching these movies.

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And so I noticed a couple.

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Famous actors before they were truly famous.

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So George Takai was in it, right?

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And other folks might know him as a from Star Trek.

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Yeah.

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So I, I kind of jotted down a couple of things.

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There was a nice little helicopter crash in there.

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And I said, my notes, the notes when I took this said as a decent movie

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that shows that John Wayne can still command a screen, even in a dynamic

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war movie with constant action.

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Even as old as he is in this movie, he really could just command.

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That, that scene, whatever scene he was in.

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And I actually looked up kind of some of the box office numbers and

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it did pretty decently for 1968.

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I, it capped out I think at number 11 with about 21 million dollars

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in box office gross revenue.

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Some of the other movies that came out that year that beat

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it out in the box office.

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Number one was Funny Girl.

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I'm not familiar with that one.

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Barbra Streisand.

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Okay, Barbra Streisand.

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2001 A Space Odyssey.

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No.

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Space Odyssey.

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That was number two.

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The Odd Couple.

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Romeo and Juliet, Oliver, Planet of the Apes.

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So it was going up against some big movies.

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Rosemary's Baby.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah, and Rosemary's Baby was number eight.

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So it wasn't that far behind.

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So there were some big movies that

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came out that year.

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Yeah, I mean, on a budget of seven million, it made 32.

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So it was a success.

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When you really think of it for the production company and

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the box office, it's a success.

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And so for me, this actually wasn't my number ten.

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This was my number nine.

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So, from there, we can move on to, to your number nine, if you like.

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A story that glows with life and warms the heart.

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A story without time, about people.

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Fane and his gang raided the McCandles ranch and kidnapped little Jake McCandles.

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They held him for one million dollars in ransom.

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They weren't afraid of the army, and they weren't afraid of the Texas Rangers.

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And they thought his grandfather, Big Jake McCandles, was dead.

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He wasn't.

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My number nine was Big Jake.

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And I kind of like put Big Jake slash The Shootist, and I know you didn't watch

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The Shootist, and I'll talk about why.

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So for me, Big Jake is kind of like a, last love letter because it's the

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last movie of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and it's filmed in 1971.

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John Wayne is older in this he and he plays with his son and his, his two sons,

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he has his oldest son and his younger son.

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Now his younger son plays his grandson, right in the movie, in the movie, which

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I think is almost like a poke at himself to say look at me I have My older son

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who's playing my son in the movie and then my younger son who's actually

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playing my grandson in the movie.

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And his grandson, his son who's playing his grandson is named Ethan in real

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life, named after his character, which we'll talk about later in another movie.

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But it was to me, it was that nice moment of him and Maureen O'Hara sharing

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the screen together for the last time.

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If you see them, we'll talk about other movies that they were in together.

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This is almost like watching them age as a couple in a movie.

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So I really did like it for that.

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The storyline's fine.

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It's the same old, someone's taking the grandson.

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He's the old gunslinger comes in and gets him back.

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So it is that same old John Wayne hero story.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:30</time>
Now The Shootist is John Wayne's last movie filmed in 1976 with him

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:35</time>
and Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, and it is Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:40</time>
And I just like that because it's his last.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:44</time>
movie, and it's a Western, and again, it's the story of an old gunslinger who's dying

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:49</time>
of cancer and wants to go out, like, with

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:52</time>
his guns.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:53</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:53</time>
One of the things, now, I will say, so this was my number 10.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
I, this is, I'm sorry, I just, I didn't enjoy this one as much as any of the other

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:01</time>
movies on this, on this particular list.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:03</time>
I didn't watch The Shootist.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:04</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:04</time>
Haven't watched that yet.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:05</time>
But there, I did notice I jotted down kind of some of the themes that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:10</time>
I saw throughout these movies and I noticed a similar theme across a

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:14</time>
couple of his movies and I think this is probably It's somewhat typical of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:18</time>
Westerns, but it's that old versus new.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:21</time>
And it was, I, I noticed that it was, it was pretty clear in this one and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:25</time>
I jotted it down because I, I kind of watched these in reverse order.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
So I watched these in the order that we're, we're going through.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:30</time>
But it was kind of just continuing contrasting comparisons

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:34</time>
throughout the movie, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:34</time>
Horses versus cars and motorcycles, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
Cause he's coming back to his estranged family and we're, I

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
think this is the one where he's working with his, his sons, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:44</time>
And one son's like trying to ride a motorcycle, but

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:46</time>
can't, can't do things right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:48</time>
And here's, he's the old man coming in and he's able to, you know, be John Wayne.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:52</time>
He's, he's doing everything right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:54</time>
But it, his character is a little bit of a jerk, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:59</time>
He's a little bit of that antagonist in there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:01</time>
But obviously he'll kind of ultimately does what John Wayne does.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:05</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:05</time>
you know, wins in the end.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:06</time>
Yeah,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
and it's so it's just again, it's one of those.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:09</time>
That's why it's kind of the end of the list because it's like a bookend.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
Yeah, now I coming down to box office didn't do well in the box office.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:17</time>
This one was a lot lower on the list in some of his earlier movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:21</time>
There actually wasn't really good data in this.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:23</time>
But since this is the 70s, there's there's plenty of information.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:26</time>
This was number 21 that year.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:29</time>
I think it made a right around Yeah, seven and a half million dollars.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
But some of the top movies that year was let's see.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
Billy Jack, Phil Fiddler on the roof.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:38</time>
Diamonds are forever.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:39</time>
So some James Bond.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:41</time>
So there's, there's some good movies that came out.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
Dirty Harry at Clockwork Orange, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:47</time>
If you get into the Disney realm.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
So there's some big ones that came out and, again, for me, this

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
was, this is number 10 on, on my list compared to, to Jen's number

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:55</time>
nine.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:56</time>
Yeah, we're getting into the end of John Wayne's career here.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:58</time>
So number eight on your list

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:02</time>
Sons of Katie Elder: Yah!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:07</time>
Yah!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:12</time>
Yah!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
this is the Sons of Katie Elder.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:36</time>
Made in 1965, four ne'er do well sons reunite in their Texas hometown

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:42</time>
to attend their mother's funeral.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:44</time>
Led by older brothers, John, this is John Wayne, a gunfighter, and Tom,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:48</time>
played by Dean Martin, a gambler, the four soon learn that their

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:52</time>
father gambled away the family ranch, which was the cause of his murder.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:57</time>
The brothers decide to avenge their father's death and win back the ranch, a

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:00</time>
situation that quickly leads to trouble with the local sheriff and violent

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:05</time>
conflict with the rival Hastings clan.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
This one was, this one was fun.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
So I was starting to get into it with this one because Dean Martin was great.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
And some of the scenes were great.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:15</time>
So talk to me about why this was your number eight.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:17</time>
I

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:17</time>
love

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:18</time>
watching The Sons of Katie Elder.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
I will watch this anytime it's on TV.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:22</time>
I love, first of all, I love the title, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:24</time>
So Katie Elder, that name comes from Big Nose Kate, who would

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:30</time>
hang out with Doc Holliday.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:32</time>
Oh, okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:32</time>
That's her name.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:33</time>
It's a little, little historical tie there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:34</time>
A little historical tie, plus it's kind of based off of these brothers a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
1888 true story of the Marlowe brothers.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:42</time>
In Texas, same kind of thing happened to them.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:45</time>
Okay?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:45</time>
They fought back.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:47</time>
They were kind of put up into like a circumstantial thing, killing a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:50</time>
sheriff, and the town came after them and they held back the town,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:54</time>
just the brothers themselves, and were exonerated in the end.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:57</time>
So it's kind of the same premise, but I really love this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
because John Wayne is again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:03</time>
off character.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:04</time>
He's a gunslinger, so much so he doesn't go to the funeral.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:08</time>
He stands off in the back.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
Yeah, he's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:11</time>
not a good person.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:11</time>
He's not a good person.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
He's wanted.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
And then Dean Martin's a gambler.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:15</time>
So he's not playing a great guy either.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:17</time>
And then another brother is kind of like a dealer, like a furniture dealer.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:21</time>
And then they have a young brother who is going to college.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
Now that brother was supposed to be Tommy Kirk from Swiss Family Robinson, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:32</time>
Of Disney fame.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:33</time>
And I think to see him in it probably would have been different.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
But he had gotten recently arrested for marijuana and it didn't look very good.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
So he was written out of it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
So basically these three brothers who haven't done Well, in their lives and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:47</time>
lost their mother, who was a really good woman and the town loved her are trying

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:51</time>
to do right by their mother and make sure their younger brother does something

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
with his life.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
He keeps doing what younger brothers do, and he wants to be like his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:00</time>
older brothers who are not good guys, but they're But they're cool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
But they're fun.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:04</time>
And so John Wayne plays the oldest of them all.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:08</time>
And again, they figure out that their family farm was taken away

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:13</time>
by, you know, basically a swindler.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
And so they're trying to get the farm back.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:18</time>
And Dennis Hopper is in this again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
Yep.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
So it's very interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:23</time>
You're gonna see Dennis Hopper in a couple movies here.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:25</time>
He plays a good role.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:26</time>
And what's interesting about this movie is John Wayne had just been

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:31</time>
diagnosed with cancer before this role.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:33</time>
And he had one of his lungs and two ribs removed.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:37</time>
Yeah, you were telling me about this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:38</time>
And but he wanted to do his own stunts.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
John Wayne was always big on like, he wanted to you.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:43</time>
please fans, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:44</time>
He really was like his fans wanted to see him do these things on the horses.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:48</time>
And at one point, you see him dragged through a river, because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:52</time>
he's being taken by the guys, and they drag him through the river.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:55</time>
And he actually got pneumonia during that, because he really he did that stunt.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:58</time>
And it was pretty dangerous for him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:00</time>
So you see john Wayne trying to keep holding his own here.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:04</time>
This was made in 1965.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:06</time>
So john Wayne is, is entering the end of his 50s here.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:10</time>
So but I love John Wayne DeMartin.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:13</time>
This will be the second time they team up together.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:16</time>
And it is just another quintessential Western.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
Anytime it's on, I will watch it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
Yeah, I

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
actually had this one a little bit higher because I enjoyed it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:24</time>
So you had it, you were number eight.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:25</time>
I had this one as my number seven.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:26</time>
Oh, wow.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:27</time>
So I had this one as my number seven because I, I did enjoy this.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:30</time>
I enjoyed the brothers aspect of it, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:32</time>
You know, I, I grew up, I had a brother and That, that dynamic was good and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
Dean Martin, I think, did a pretty good job as far as the box office goes the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:40</time>
Sons of Katie Elder did pretty decently.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:42</time>
There's number 14 in the box office.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:44</time>
It was competing against the likes of The Sound of Music.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
Dr.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:48</time>
Chivago, Thunderball The Great Race, you know, there's, there was some

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:53</time>
pretty big ones that were coming out that, that, that year, but it it made

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:56</time>
about 13 million at the box office.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:59</time>
And you know, we're talking, we're still talking about it today.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:01</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:02</time>
I

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:02</time>
love the way this movie ends.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:03</time>
If you've ever seen it where they keep talking about Katie would sit in this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:07</time>
rocking chair and rock and rock and rock.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:09</time>
And at the very end, the brothers have gotten back the family farm.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:13</time>
They're, the younger brother has been shot, but he's going to be okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:17</time>
He's going to make it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:17</time>
And John Wayne walks past the rocking chair and hits it and it starts rocking.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:22</time>
That was the one once I finally got there, I was like, okay, now I'm starting

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
to get into the John Wayne movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:26</time>
I can tell I'm going to enjoy a little bit more.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
See, it makes me cry because it's so good.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:31</time>
All right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:31</time>
So we're going to move on to your number seven.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
In the summer of 78, Will Anderson lost all his cow hands just at

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:41</time>
the time he was to start his cattle drive.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:44</time>
Miserable.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:52</time>
Did you ever think of hiring boys?

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:55</time>
What boys?

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:56</time>
School boys.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:57</time>
Oh, sure, and women.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
How about my mom in Cedar City?

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:20:01</time>
She's only 92.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:20:04</time>
Well, you ain't got a lot of choices.

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:20:06</time>
Who's first?

<cite>The Cowboys:</cite>
<time>00:20:07</time>
I'll go first.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:16</time>
And your number seven is The Cowboys.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:19</time>
Oh, so good.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:20</time>
So The Cowboys was made in 1972, and it's about a grizzled veteran rancher,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:26</time>
Will Anderson, played by John Wayne.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:29</time>
It's almost, he's almost ready to embark on a big cow drive when his crew

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:32</time>
abruptly quits to join in a gold rush.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
Left with no alternative, Anderson enlists the help of a group of local schoolboys.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:40</time>
Training the youngsters to be cowboys, Anderson manages to get the drive

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:44</time>
underway, but their long journey is placed in jeopardy when the devious

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:48</time>
bandit Longhair, played by Bruce Dern, being very famous in this movie,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:54</time>
sets his sights on stealing the herd.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:57</time>
So this movie was, was one of my favorites.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:00</time>
I love

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:01</time>
it, and we watched it with our boys, and our boys loved it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:04</time>
I saw this at Turner Classic Movies.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:06</time>
Robert Carradine, it's his first movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:09</time>
We think about, Revenge of the Nerds.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:10</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:11</time>
It was his first movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:12</time>
One of the things I appreciated about this movie was Again, we focus

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:16</time>
on a lot of history stuff, kind of everything that goes into like herding

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:21</time>
cattle from one state, one ranch down to another, and, and kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:26</time>
everything that it took and the men who had to know what they were doing.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:29</time>
And so you kind of saw a little peek behind that curtain of what it

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:33</time>
used to be like back then to teach someone how to do all of this stuff.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:36</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
It's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
supposed to be a 400 mile.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:38</time>
Cattle drive.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:39</time>
Yeah, it's supposed to be from Bozeman, Montana down to South Dakota and The men

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:44</time>
who normally are his ranch hands have left for the gold rush So that's kind of giving

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
you like a time frame of what's happening.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:50</time>
And again, this is a 1971 novel movies made in 1972 So again, John Wayne is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:56</time>
getting this novel It's by William Dale Jennings and buying the rights early and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:00</time>
then wanting to play the part It's one of the very few movies with John Wayne dies.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:04</time>
Yes Spoiler alert.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:06</time>
So,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:06</time>
so, I, I, I sure hope you've seen that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:09</time>
So that's what Bruce Dern, I remember, I mean, in interviews

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:13</time>
and he said soon after, he became known as the man who killed John

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:17</time>
Wayne.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:17</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:17</time>
And cause he does it in a horrible way.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:20</time>
He, he shoots him in the back.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:23</time>
He beats him up beforehand.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:25</time>
And so, and this is like, he's a new actor, Bruce Dern, he's younger.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:28</time>
So he said it's like, it followed his career around for years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:33</time>
because everyone loves John Wayne.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:35</time>
And John Wayne in this movie, he's taking these young boys on

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:39</time>
this cattle drive because all the men have left for the gold rush.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:41</time>
So he's almost like a big father figure to them.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:44</time>
He's teaching them how to overcome fears.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:46</time>
He's teaching them how to work hard.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:48</time>
And he, he hires an African American chuck wagon.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:52</time>
Yeah, Runner, and in real life Roscoe Lee Brown was a strong Democrat where John

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
Wayne's a strong Republican, but he said he got along very well with John Wayne.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:03</time>
Oh, interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:03</time>
They, he, John Wayne would, they would talk poetry together.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:07</time>
He was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:07</time>
incredibly eloquent, very well spoken as far as his

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:11</time>
character went on the movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:12</time>
And he played, I actually really enjoyed his role.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:16</time>
With the boys and with John like I really enjoyed his role.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:19</time>
I

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
thought it was so authentic with race Because the boys being questioning

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:24</time>
race and questioning what it's like to be an African American man and Roscoe really

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:29</time>
answering or his, his character really answering their questions are really

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:32</time>
like digging into their stereotypes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:34</time>
So, he plays Jebediah Nightlinger, but he runs the truck wagon, but

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:39</time>
really between him and John Wayne's character, Will Anderson, they're like

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
the two father figures for these boys.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:45</time>
They really do raise these boys.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:47</time>
And so then when John Wayne's killed, it's Roscoe, it's it's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:49</time>
It's Jebediah Nightlinger who helps the boys seek revenge.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:53</time>
I'm glad you brought up kind of like the raising of the boys because

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:56</time>
one of the things I noted down was not only like how well those the two

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:00</time>
adult actors played off of each other.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:02</time>
But that they they identified all these firsts with the boys, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:07</time>
So the first time that they are drinking the first time they're seeing, you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:12</time>
know, ladies of the night, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:14</time>
Soil doves.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:14</time>
So you see these, you see these first and as a.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:19</time>
grown man, it kind of, it's very nostalgic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
It was very nostalgic for me, just kind of seeing young boys in their childhood,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:27</time>
you know, growing up before your eyes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:30</time>
And then by the end of the movie, there's so much more adult like in

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:34</time>
how they're handling situations.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:36</time>
And I think it's great that John Wayne's character

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:38</time>
tells them not to fight back.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:40</time>
Even he preempts that I might.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:44</time>
Get killed.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:44</time>
Yeah, don't fight back because they see you as boys But if you fight back they

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:48</time>
won't and I think he gives a great lesson there in the end And so then after they

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:54</time>
bring the cattle in they get all the money They make that tombstone and they

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:57</time>
have it your beloved husband and father And then when they can't find his body

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:02</time>
on the way back and they just leave it because he's part of the land I just

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:05</time>
really love that I wanted Shout out that Colleen Dewhurst is also in this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:11</time>
Slim Pickings is in this as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:13</time>
Colleen Dewhurst plays the madam of the soil devs.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:15</time>
As the box office goes, the Cowboys didn't kind of raise too high.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:19</time>
It was actually kind of number 20 in the box office that year,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:22</time>
making around seven and a half million dollars, but it was, it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:24</time>
The Godfather came out that year.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:26</time>
The Poseidon adventure.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:28</time>
Oh, that's good.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:28</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:29</time>
There's some other movies that folks would recognize on here.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:31</time>
This one right here, I'm actually not going to say on film because

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:34</time>
that is not an appropriate movie, but it's very famous.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:36</time>
But

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:37</time>
I think that Cowboys is one of those movies that maybe didn't do well when

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:40</time>
it first came out, but has since really grown in the love of John Wayne fans.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:46</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:46</time>
I, I would agree with that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:48</time>
So for me, this was actually my number five, so this was number seven for you.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:52</time>
This was number five for me.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:53</time>
So this was in the, in the top five for me because I really enjoyed the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:58</time>
watching these young boys having their first growing up and really seeing that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:02</time>
So that to me, I just really touched me.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:05</time>
It's a lot of fun.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:06</time>
So number six on your list, which I was surprised this was number six,

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:19</time>
Says Life Magazine.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:21</time>
True Grit is good enough for me.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:23</time>
It's good enough for you.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:24</time>
And if it isn't good enough for some movie company, then the free enterprise

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:28</time>
system is really going to hell.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:31</time>
Move along!

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:34</time>
They tell me you're a man with true grit.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:36</time>
What do you want?

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:37</time>
Speak up.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:40</time>
Says the New York Times.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:41</time>
As touching as it is irreverently amusing.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:44</time>
Marshall Rooster Cogburn and I are going after the murderer, Tom Chaney.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:48</time>
How did you light on that greasy vagabond?

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:26:52</time>
And now, Paramount Pictures presents The Hal Wallis Production True Grit

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:01</time>
Starring John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn The most colorful character he's

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:06</time>
ever played If I smelled as bad as you, I wouldn't live near people.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:11</time>
Kim Darby as Matty Ross Hey!

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:13</time>
Get out of here!

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:18</time>
My God!

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:20</time>
She reminds me of me.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:23</time>
Glenn Campbell, in his first big screen role.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:26</time>
A little earlier I gave some thought to stealing a kiss from you.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:29</time>
Although you are very young.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:31</time>
And you're unattractive to boot.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:27:33</time>
But now I'm of a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:37</time>
was True Grit.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:39</time>
Now if you have watched our channel before, you may be watching this because

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:43</time>
you watched our True Grit review comparing the 1969 version to the 2010 version.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:49</time>
If you haven't seen True

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:50</time>
Grit Yeah, stop watching right now and go watch it because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:53</time>
There's so much we cover in that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:55</time>
There's,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:55</time>
there's a lot we, we cover in that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:57</time>
And it's a very, one of our more popular videos.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:59</time>
So True Grit came out in 1969 and it's about a hired hand, Tom Chaney,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:05</time>
who murders the father of 14 year old Maddie Ross played by Kim Darby.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:09</time>
She seeks vengeance and hires U.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:11</time>
S.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:12</time>
Marshal Rooster Cogburn, John Wayne, a man of quote unquote, true grit to

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:17</time>
track Chaney into Indian territory as to begin their pursuit to Texas Ranger.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:23</time>
who goes by the played by Glenn Campbell, joins the manhunt in hopes of capturing

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:29</time>
Cheney for the murder of a Texas senator and collecting a substantial reward.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:34</time>
The three clash on their quest of bringing justice to the same man.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:39</time>
So this, this one was pretty fun.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:41</time>
Now tell me why it was number six.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:44</time>
on your list.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:45</time>
Well, I love true grit, but it just doesn't hit the other five for me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:49</time>
Yeah, we're getting

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:49</time>
we're getting into like the ultra classics here.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:52</time>
There's like I tell people like there are movie moments

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:55</time>
that get ingrained on your brain.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:58</time>
And for me true grit will always be John Wayne is Rooster Cogburn, on the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:03</time>
horse, swinging the Winchester with one hand as he cocks it and fires.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:29:09</time>
Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:12</time>
puts the reins in his mouth.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:13</time>
He has a revolver in one hand, a rifle in the other.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:17</time>
I will say Jeff Bridges only has two revolvers and then

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:20</time>
he swings like to do that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:22</time>
I was trying to practice that the other day in Bass Pro Shop.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:25</time>
Oh, really?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:25</time>
Yeah, to swing a rifle and cock it as you swing it like you've got to be

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:30</time>
pretty strong and have good awareness of where you're where the rifle is.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:35</time>
On a horse with reins in your mouth and one eye like to me, that's true grit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:41</time>
Like that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:43</time>
was definitely this, this movie was definitely much higher on my list.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:46</time>
And one of the, we actually learned quite a bit from all of our viewers of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:50</time>
our true grit video, lots of stuff in the comments about, you know, reading

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:54</time>
the book and this, that, and the other.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:56</time>
So again, another book.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:57</time>
That came out, he made the movie very quickly

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:00</time>
thereafter.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:00</time>
Bought the rights, so the novel came out in 1968.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:02</time>
And Wayne liked it so much he bought the movie rights right away.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:06</time>
And then he went about filling the roles.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:08</time>
And remember we talked about trying to get Elvis Presley.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:11</time>
And then him and his daughter actually approached Glen Campbell.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:14</time>
We make the mistake.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:16</time>
of not knowing who Glenn Campbell was in the original comparison.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:19</time>
In our first video.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:20</time>
Oh, we heard it, you guys.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:21</time>
And you know what, Sensei?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:22</time>
We have listened to Glenn Campbell.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:24</time>
We've listened to Glenn Campbell.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:25</time>
We like Glenn Campbell.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:27</time>
I actually recognize in, in our audience, if you're watching

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:30</time>
this, you may, may laugh at this and understand my, my age.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:33</time>
I knew one of his songs from being on one of the soundtracks of one of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:37</time>
the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:39</time>
So that's how I, that's how I knew some, some of his, but, you know, apparently

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:42</time>
he was a, Very, very well known.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:45</time>
Very good

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:45</time>
musician.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:46</time>
He reminds me a lot of like Johnny Cash.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:48</time>
He's telling like stories.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:49</time>
He's doing like country stories He does Wichita linemen, which I really like

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:54</time>
but he plays that part and again All three of them are showing true grit

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:01</time>
You know the girl the beef and Mr.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:05</time>
Cogburn all showing true grit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:06</time>
This is John Wayne's Oscar.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:08</time>
So this is the movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:09</time>
John Wayne is going to win an Oscar for he's going to receive

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:12</time>
it from Barbra Streisand.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:13</time>
He's going to whisper in her ear beginners luck, which I think is the cutest thing.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:18</time>
And then he gets a tear in his eyes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:20</time>
He accepts it like it to me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:22</time>
This is just a really great part for John Wayne to play.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:25</time>
He is.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:26</time>
acting in this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:27</time>
It's a little more of a comical kind

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:30</time>
of.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:30</time>
Yeah, he has, he has more of a comedic take to the part.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
Comedic

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
take.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
And then, but he has some really great scenes with Matty talking

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:37</time>
about his life before he becomes a U.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:40</time>
S.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:41</time>
Marshal.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:42</time>
This is supposed to be based in the 1880s, Fort Smith, Arkansas.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:45</time>
They're going to be going into American Indian territory.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:49</time>
LaBeef is a Texas Ranger and Robert Duvall plays Ned Pepper and you got

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:54</time>
Dennis Hopper again who plays one of the bad guys running with Ned

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:59</time>
Pepper, Dennis Duvall's Bad guys.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:01</time>
Yeah,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:01</time>
so one, one interesting fact that I actually noticed at the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:04</time>
very end of the movie, you, in the 1969 version, you finally get to

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:09</time>
see and hear from Lawyer Daggett.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:11</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:11</time>
Because Maddie Ross is talking about Laurel Daggett all, all throughout.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:14</time>
She's kind of threatening, she's kind of, you know, the horse trader.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:32:17</time>
I'll take it up with my attorney.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:32:19</time>
I will take it up with mine, Lawyer Daggett.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:32:21</time>
And he will make money, and I will make money, and your lawyer will make money.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:32:25</time>
And you, Mr.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:32:26</time>
licensed auctioneer, you will foot the bill.

<cite>True Grit:</cite>
<time>00:32:29</time>
You are a damn nuisance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:30</time>
Strother Martin is the horse trader who he's in a couple

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:33</time>
of other movies too, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:34</time>
People

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:35</time>
love him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:35</time>
And so lawyer Daggett at the very end of the movie was actually the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:39</time>
voice of piglet from Winnie the Pooh.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:41</time>
And he was the train conductor.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:43</time>
in the movie, The White Christmas, one of my all time favorite movies and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:47</time>
probably my favorite Christmas movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:49</time>
Well, and I have people who will argue with me about this,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:52</time>
but I am 100 percent correct.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:54</time>
John Wayne does the jump at the end of that movie and the stunt man will

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:59</time>
say that John Wayne does it again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:01</time>
John Wayne trying to prove to his fans that he still has it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:07</time>
I want you to know that it wasn't as high as it looks in

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:10</time>
the movie, but it, he does do it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:14</time>
For

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:16</time>
me, again, this was your number six.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:18</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:19</time>
For me, this was my number four.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:21</time>
Oh, you really liked it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:22</time>
I really, really enjoyed true grit.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:24</time>
Just the, the characters interacting and the dialogue

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:29</time>
is great.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:29</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:30</time>
And I love the names.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:31</time>
Rooster Cogburn, like how can you beat that name?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:34</time>
And then, just the way he looks.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:37</time>
If you look at the movie poster for True Grit, just how gruff and gritty he looks.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:43</time>
I don't know, if I was going after somebody.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:45</time>
I think I'd want Rooster Cogburn with me

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:47</time>
as well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:47</time>
And he, he was probably the right man for the job.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:50</time>
Alright, so moving on from there is your number five.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:19</time>
--! ...... Rio Bravo: be another like Rio Bravo, with its thundering story of raw

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:23</time>
courage against overwhelming odds, and its once in a lifetime combination

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:27</time>
of today's hottest star names.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:29</time>
You've seen nothing like them together, and here at Rio Bravo,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:33</time>
nothing can tear them apart.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:35</time>
Where are you going?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:36</time>
Get your hands off me.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:37</time>
I said, where are you going?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:39</time>
You got no use for a man you can't depend on.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:42</time>
One bad night and I'm done for.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:45</time>
So Rio Bravo, so Rio Bravo for you is number five.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:48</time>
For me it's number eight.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:50</time>
Oh, Scotty.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:51</time>
Yeah, this is I did not enjoy this one nearly as

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:54</time>
much as I did And you know, it's so funny about that is so many people

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:57</time>
compare you to Ricky Nelson I hear it you walk up to people like you look like

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:03</time>
Ricky Nelson and you even know who that is and you're like I know who that is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:06</time>
because people tell me all the time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:08</time>
I

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:08</time>
so throughout my life.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:09</time>
I've had just random strangers, you know cashiers You know, and people who

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:14</time>
would know who Ricky Nelson is say, like, you look just like Ricky Nelson.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:17</time>
And as a kid, I figured out who that was really fast because people kept saying it

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:21</time>
to me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:21</time>
So this is number five for me for a lot of reasons.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:24</time>
One, it's directed by Howard Hawks, who's considered one of the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:27</time>
greatest directors of all time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:29</time>
Quentin Tarantino is very influenced by

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:31</time>
Howard Hawks.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:32</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:32</time>
And I think Quentin Tarantino thinks this is like one of the best movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:35</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:36</time>
It has a full long opening dialogue, opening sequence of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:40</time>
the movie with no dialogue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:42</time>
And that to me is, is artistic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:44</time>
So, so I, so I actually, that's one of the big notes that I, things

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:48</time>
that I noted right along with kind of, you know, if, if you're not familiar

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:52</time>
with the movie, you know, definitely go look kind of in our show notes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:55</time>
But this movie came out in 1959.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:58</time>
And.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:59</time>
Basically, there's a gunslinger, Joe Burdett, played by Claude

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:03</time>
Atkins, who kills a man in a saloon.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:05</time>
And the sheriff, who's played by John Wayne, arrests him with the aid of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:08</time>
the town drunk, played by Dean Martin.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:10</time>
Alright, so there's Dean Martin again.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:11</time>
This is their first movie together.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:13</time>
This is their first time.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:14</time>
And before long, Burdett's brother, who's played by John Russell, comes

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:17</time>
around, indicating he's prepared to get his brother out of jail if necessary.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:21</time>
And it kind of goes on from there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:23</time>
So again, I enjoyed.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:26</time>
Dean Martin in his role and seeing Ricky Nelson just kind of made

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:29</time>
me, made me laugh because people have told me that I look like him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:32</time>
Well, they're

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:32</time>
capitalizing on, on Ricky Nelson's, I think, popularity at the time, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:36</time>
This is 1959.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:37</time>
This is like, Ozzie and Harriet is like, hitting it big.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:41</time>
Ricky Nelson is also putting out a lot of hits, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:45</time>
So him and Dean Martin actually sing together in this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:47</time>
So John Wayne is the sheriff of the town.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:50</time>
He's arresting this brother of this big rancher.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:54</time>
And this rancher is kind of a bad guy and he has a full posse.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:58</time>
And so he knows to arrest this brother and to keep him in jail is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:01</time>
going to be difficult because his brother is going to come after him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:04</time>
And so he He has kind of like an elderly deputy that works with him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:08</time>
He has this drunk old deputy who's trying to get sober.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:12</time>
So he asks for the help of this young gunslinger who's Ricky Nelson.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:16</time>
And so it's really like the hodgepodge group of the four

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:19</time>
of them who stand off this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:22</time>
gang coming to get this brother.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:24</time>
And so that's the whole kind of premise of the movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:27</time>
And what I appreciate about Howard Hawks is he has like this called Huck

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:34</time>
Huck say it Huck saying women, where he makes these strong, tough women.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:39</time>
So Angie Dickinson, in this movie, she almost makes me blush.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:44</time>
Like she's very forward with John Wayne, and she's very like demanding

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:49</time>
and she's wearing like these cute little bits and stuff and I was like, Whoa.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:55</time>
Now, Angie Dickinson is also a big actress at the time, but how would Hawks like to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:00</time>
give women these strong, powerful roles?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:03</time>
And and even to the point, like In the credits it says story created by B.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:10</time>
H.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:11</time>
McCampbell and that is Howard Hawks's daughter.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:15</time>
Oh, interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:15</time>
McCampbell is her married name and it's because she comes up

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:20</time>
with the idea to use dynamite in the last sequence of the movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:26</time>
Yeah, there was some things I can see, like the notes that I took, I can

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:30</time>
see why this was higher on your list, why it's a favorite of someone like

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:33</time>
Quentin Tarantino, because some of the things that you already noted, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:36</time>
No dialogue in that opening scene.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:38</time>
That is a very artistic, very specific choice, and it was incredibly

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:42</time>
noticeable, hard to pull off, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:45</time>
And from a filmmaking perspective I felt, I wrote down that I felt like

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:49</time>
music played a very specific role.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:52</time>
Whenever certain music started, there was like some, some, like this ominous Mexican

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:38:56</time>
song, or it was very clear that music played a very, like it was almost its own

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:02</time>
character, you know, kind of leading you into that, which is normal of a movie, but

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:07</time>
it was much more noticeable here in this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:10</time>
Well, and it's based on a short story That was written as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:14</time>
But what's this song that Dean Martin sings in it something my pony and me

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:19</time>
my yeah I'm not I don't but he sings out with Ricky Nelson and he sings

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:23</time>
and John Wayne gets to like watch and smile Yeah, cuz it's kind of like here

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:27</time>
are these two big stars at the time singing together In 2014, actually, the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:33</time>
Library of Congress deemed this movie culturally and historically significant.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:38</time>
Really?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:39</time>
Yep.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:40</time>
That's interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:40</time>
So it's, it's saved now in the archives.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:43</time>
Everybody's kind of got their own taste, but this, for me specifically, this

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:46</time>
was number eight on my list, even though it was number five on yours, as far as the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:49</time>
box office goes, this, it did decently.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:52</time>
You know, actually I think true grit was one of his most

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:55</time>
successful box office movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:56</time>
This one, this came out again in 1959, kind of came in at number 13, about

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:02</time>
five and a half, almost 6 million other movies that year, Ben, Hur.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:06</time>
Some like it hot.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:08</time>
So some pretty, pretty big movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:10</time>
It was going up, going up

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:11</time>
against.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:11</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:11</time>
And so that song was my rifle, my pony and me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:15</time>
Okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:15</time>
And they also sing a brief version of get along Cindy, but there's kind of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:20</time>
a debate around this movie that it was made in response to high noon, which.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:25</time>
was sometimes thought to be an allegory for blacklisting in

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:28</time>
Hollywood as well as McCarthyism.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:30</time>
So Wayne used to always call High Noon Un American.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:35</time>
Oh, interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:35</time>
And if you know, that's Gary Cooper meeting in the town square.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:39</time>
And so this was kind of like his response to that movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:40:44</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:44</time>
Interesting.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:45</time>
It was, it was good, but not, not high on my list, but I can see

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:49</time>
why it was high, high on others.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:50</time>
So your number four,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:03</time>
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: That's my steak Valance You heard him, dude.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:14</time>
Pick it up.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:17</time>
No.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:17</time>
Pilgrim, hold it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:19</time>
I said you, Valance.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:21</time>
You pick it up.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:23</time>
Three against one, Donovan.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:25</time>
and you have already mentioned it, I think, briefly before, is

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:28</time>
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:30</time>
I love this movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:31</time>
Now, if you don't know this movie this came out in 1962 as a Western film

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:35</time>
starring John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:38</time>
So this movie's about a senator who returns to a small town in the Old West

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:42</time>
to attend the funeral of an old friend.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:45</time>
He begins to recount the story of his arrival in the town when he was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:48</time>
a young lawyer who stood up to a notorious outlaw named Liberty Valance.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:54</time>
The movie explores the themes of law and order, justice,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:57</time>
and the power of myth making.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:41:59</time>
The film is considered a classic of the Western genre and is known

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:03</time>
for its memorable lines such as,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:06</time>
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: This is the West, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:08</time>
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:11</time>
When the legend becomes fact.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:14</time>
Print the legend.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:15</time>
So for you, this is number four.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:16</time>
For me, this is number six.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:17</time>
I enjoyed this.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:19</time>
Didn't enjoy it quite as much as the Cowboys.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:21</time>
The Cowboys kind of edged this one out for me, but this was, this is a great one.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:42:25</time>
I

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:25</time>
love this movie because of what it means.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:28</time>
in the bigger picture.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:30</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:30</time>
That the West is settled, that even law is settled.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:35</time>
Disputes are settled with a mixture of both old versus new,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:39</time>
that you need to have a toughness.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:41</time>
You need to have grit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:42</time>
You need to be physical and mental, that you do have to be smart.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:47</time>
But there are some times when It's being smart is not enough.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:51</time>
Sometimes, you know, got to know when to fight.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:42:53</time>
And I appreciated that so much because John Wayne's character recognizes

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:00</time>
that he recognizes that in Jimmy Stewart, that that is what's going

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:05</time>
to really progress the state forward.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:07</time>
But someone needs to stop liberty balance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:10</time>
Again,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:43:10</time>
it's that theme of John Wayne's character.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:43:14</time>
Not not welcoming in the new but recognizing the new and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:43:18</time>
that it's kind of inevitable.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:43:20</time>
Yeah, right and that change Can be for the better Even though his characters

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:43:26</time>
typically fall on the the old side of of getting things done, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:43:30</time>
Yeah John Wayne always winning the fight and always doing

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:32</time>
all that stuff and I like that he's teamed up with Jimmy

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:35</time>
Stewart here That they're kind of at these two sides of the coin.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:39</time>
It's shot in black and white.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:40</time>
It's done by John Ford, who I love.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:44</time>
We're going to do a couple more John Fords after this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:46</time>
It's done in black and white to really show this grittiness and this kind

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:52</time>
of old, the, the mythic old west.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:43:56</time>
And it also helps that the fact that John Wayne's 54 and Jimmy

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:01</time>
Stewart's 53 when they felt so it makes them look a little younger.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:05</time>
in it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:05</time>
And so the black and white is helping with that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:09</time>
But I always say, Lee Marvin really holds his own as a bad guy in this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:16</time>
And we, we visit Lee Marvin's grave in Arlington.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:18</time>
Lee Marvin was always proud to be a Marine.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:21</time>
There's very few people who can hold their own against John Wayne as a bad

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:44:25</time>
guy.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:44:26</time>
And he's, he's amazing, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:44:28</time>
That, that scene.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:44:29</time>
Where it's the three of them right in, in the restaurant bar.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:44:32</time>
That

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:33</time>
is my favorite line.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:34</time>
When he, John Wayne fills the screen, turns towards him and says,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:42</time>
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: That's my steak Valance

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:46</time>
I've never seen John Wayne look more John Wayne like, and that's, I think when,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:50</time>
Lee Marvin's character is like, Oh, crap.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:53</time>
That's his like, that's his stake that I and and then he

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:56</time>
tells someone else to pick it up.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:44:58</time>
And John Wayne says, you pick it up balance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:00</time>
And that's when Jimmy Stewart even knows this is it, something's going to happen.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:04</time>
So Jimmy Stewart tries to stop the whole thing.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:06</time>
But that to me, was John Wayne being so John Wayne and I love

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:12</time>
that line I also love when he tells him the story at the end

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:18</time>
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Valance couldn't make you run away.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:20</time>
What is it now, Pilgrim?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:22</time>
Your conscience?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:25</time>
Isn't it enough to kill a man without without trying to build a life on it?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:30</time>
You talk too much.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:33</time>
Think too much.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:35</time>
Besides, you didn't kill Liberty Valance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:44</time>
What?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:45</time>
Think back, Pilgrim.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:48</time>
Like you didn't shoot him, right and then you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:45:50</time>
know, and he didn't even realize it till then he didn't realize

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:53</time>
his character because Liberty Valance has shot, you know, Jimmy

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:45:58</time>
Stewart's character twice and in the wrist and he really like what is he going

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:01</time>
to do and now he says right between the eyes like, you know, he's going to kill

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:05</time>
him and then he just gets shot and at the same time that Jimmy Stewart fires a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:09</time>
gun and this is where this whole legend becomes and in the West, this legend

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:14</time>
drives so much of people to follow into statehood to elect him to become a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:19</time>
senator to represent them that even at the end of the movie, he says anything

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:25</time>
for the man who shot Liberty Valance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:26</time>
Remember?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:27</time>
And so it's like, no matter who he is politically, he

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:33</time>
will always be that legend.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:46:35</time>
And that holds more weight with the people than your office.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:46:40</time>
Yeah, this, this was definitely a good movie and having those three

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:46:43</time>
actors, those three actors were just, were kind of, it's that movie magic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:46:48</time>
It really was.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:46:49</time>
One of the things, the little notes that I wrote down, the town marshal, who's like,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:46:53</time>
plays this coward, keeps running away.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:46:56</time>
He's also the voice of Friar Tuck in the original Disney cartoon Robin Hood.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:00</time>
I've got For some reason, I've got an ear for those voices.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:04</time>
If I hear a voice, I can be like, okay, I know where that voice

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:06</time>
from my childhood comes from.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:08</time>
So, so I noticed that and I just thought that was kind of a fun little fact.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:11</time>
In the box office, it did pretty decently.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:13</time>
15, number 15 that year, about 8 million.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:17</time>
Some other movies that were competing against that year is Lawrence of Arabia.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:21</time>
That's a pretty well known movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:22</time>
That's a pretty well known movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:23</time>
The Longest Day.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:24</time>
The Music Man.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:25</time>
One of my favorites.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:26</time>
To Kill a Mockingbird.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:27</time>
So there's some pretty big movies that, that came out that year.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:30</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:30</time>
Its budget was only 3.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:31</time>
2 million.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:32</time>
And Vera Miles, who plays the love interest in this, we'll, we'll

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:37</time>
revisit her in another movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:38</time>
But she's kind of known for this as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:41</time>
And then.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:43</time>
So, Strother Martin is also in this again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:47</time>
He's the lawyer from True Grit, or he's the horse salesman from True Grit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:47:50</time>
He's in

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:50</time>
this again.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:51</time>
And you see this with modern day films too.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:54</time>
You know, you get directors, you get big name actors, and they

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:47:57</time>
tend to hire the same actors because they work well together.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:00</time>
And so I noticed that all throughout these films, like the sheriff in

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:05</time>
one was the priest in another.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:07</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:07</time>
So you, I noticed that pretty often.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:09</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:09</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:48:09</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:48:10</time>
And this movie in 2007.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:48:12</time>
It was put on the National Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:48:16</time>
historically, and aesthetically

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:17</time>
significant.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:18</time>
Oh, wow.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:19</time>
Well, there you go.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:20</time>
So we'll move on from the man who shot Liberty Valance, the Western

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:25</time>
legend, to your number three.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:29</time>
McClintock!: Are you longing to see a movie with good, clean fun?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:37</time>
Does a tender story of family devotion get you right here?

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<time>00:48:41</time>
If you're my father, if you love me, you'll shoot him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:44</time>
Well?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:45</time>
I'm your father, and I sure love ya.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:48</time>
So Oh!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:52</time>
Oh, you shot him!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:53</time>
like a story of inspiring restraint and self control?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:48:58</time>
Now, we'll all calm down.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:01</time>
Boss, he's just a little excited.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:03</time>
I know, I know.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:04</time>
I'm gonna use good judgment.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:05</time>
I haven't lost my temper in 40 years.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:08</time>
But Pilgrim, you caused a lot of trouble this morning.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:10</time>
Might have got somebody killed.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:12</time>
And somebody ought to belt you in the mouth.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:15</time>
But I won't.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:16</time>
I won't.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:18</time>
The hell I won't!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:19</time>
Your number one.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:20</time>
This is my number one.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:22</time>
And you'll, you'll, you'll start understanding why.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:25</time>
My top three are where they are.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:27</time>
And this is McClintock.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:28</time>
McClintock.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:29</time>
I love McClintock.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:30</time>
So, so McClintock came out in 1963.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:32</time>
It's a film about a wealthy rancher, G.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:34</time>
W.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:34</time>
McClintock.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:35</time>
He juggles personal and professional chaos.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:38</time>
His strange wife, Catherine, who's.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:40</time>
Played by Maureen O'Hara, one of our favorites, returns seeking

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:43</time>
their daughter's custody.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:45</time>
Tensions rise with corrupt officials and land grabbers and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:47</time>
Comanche tribes demanding justice.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:50</time>
As McClintock navigates these conflicts, he rediscovers love, faces

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:54</time>
past mistakes, and uses his influence to maintain peace in this frontier

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:49:59</time>
town, all with a healthy dose of humor and trademark John Wayne charm.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:04</time>
So this is an off John Wayne because it's so much

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:50:07</time>
comedy.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:50:08</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:50:09</time>
And that's honestly, that's why it kind of rose up to number one for me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:12</time>
And John Wayne is pretty good with comedy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:14</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:14</time>
He does well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:15</time>
I love this movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:15</time>
It reminds me a lot of my father.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:18</time>
So the dynamic of him and his daughter, it reminds me with me and my dad.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:22</time>
John Wayne's character is George Washington McClintock, GW.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:26</time>
And of course me and O'Hara, he's estranged from her.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:29</time>
But Stephanie Powers plays his daughter, Becky.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:32</time>
And then his real life son.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:33</time>
Patrick Wayne plays like a homesteader son, Devlin, and there's a couple

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:41</time>
of like themes through this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:43</time>
One of them is spanking.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:46</time>
Absolutely.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:47</time>
So Becky gets upset with something that Devlin has said to her and tells

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:52</time>
her dad to shoot him and she tells her dad, if you love me, you'll shoot him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:50:57</time>
So he doesn't even know John Wayne's character what happened, but he says,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:00</time>
well, I love you and you're my daughter.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:02</time>
So he shoots him with a blank.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:05</time>
She's like, you really shot him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:06</time>
I can't believe you did that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:07</time>
So Devlin gets upset and spanks her for, for acting that way.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:13</time>
And so you're kind of going to see this with Marina O'Hara is she's kind of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:19</time>
been upset with John Wayne's character.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:21</time>
George W.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:21</time>
McClintock for the way he's acted for these past two years, and he will spank

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:26</time>
her for the way she has acted towards him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:28</time>
That's a big scene at the end of the movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:30</time>
Big scene.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:30</time>
And it's kind of, all of this is kind of based on the taming of the shrew.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:33</time>
Oh, okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:34</time>
So that's kind of where you're getting this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:36</time>
Yeah,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:36</time>
I definitely wrote down in my notes, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:38</time>
It starts with a lighter tone.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:40</time>
One of the things that I noticed very early on, very early on,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:43</time>
they kept referring to the hats that he throws on the roof.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:45</time>
Yeah, he does on the weathervane.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:47</time>
And the indication of his mood.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:48</time>
And I wrote down that they, you don't really.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:50</time>
get an example of kind of what that really means.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:54</time>
But I just, I, I noted that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:51:56</time>
Yeah, it's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:51:57</time>
like if he's coming in and he swings his hat and it hits the weather

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:01</time>
vane on the top of the house, he's going to have a good, have a good day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:03</time>
Good day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:04</time>
But how What kind of arm strength would you need to throw

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:08</time>
a hat?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:08</time>
I think he said it was like, however many

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:10</time>
Stetsons, like on the top of a weathervane of a house.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:15</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:16</time>
And there was, there was just some, some great one liners throughout

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:19</time>
this movie that I fully enjoyed.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:21</time>
One of them I wrote down was Maureen O'Hara, who kind of plays that,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:25</time>
that conflicted wife, very well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:27</time>
Somebody asked John Wayne that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:29</time>
He's they said what does this word mean that kind of came up a couple

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:33</time>
times and one of them she had called somebody on Unprepossessing.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:38</time>
Yeah, unprepossessing.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:38</time>
I said, what does unprepossessing mean?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:41</time>
John Wayne says, I looked that up in a dictionary once.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:43</time>
It's best you don't know it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:44</time>
And then a guy just says, yes, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:45</time>
And he just keeps walking on.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:47</time>
So it, I think the comedy in this was just so good that that's why

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:52</time>
it was, it was my number one.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:52:53</time>
Well, and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:53</time>
it has a lot of good messages in it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:55</time>
And that's what John Wayne really wanted.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:57</time>
He, he said, I don't give jobs.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:52:59</time>
I hire men.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:00</time>
Yeah, and he also really wanted to positively represent the American Indian.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:05</time>
And that was something important to him to do in this movie as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:09</time>
One of the things in this movie that people will talk about, though,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:11</time>
is is red face in this movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:13</time>
So there are white people who are playing American Indians and they're

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:17</time>
painting their faces red for the camera.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:20</time>
It has something that has to be addressed because it does happen in this movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:24</time>
The big scene.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:26</time>
is when they all slide down into the mud pit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:30</time>
And that is a famous line.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:32</time>
It's like, you know, you made me almost lose my temper today, you know, and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:36</time>
I haven't lost my temper in 40 years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:38</time>
And he goes, and someone should belch in the face.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:40</time>
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, and the hell I won't.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:42</time>
And he punches him in the face.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:43</time>
And so then everyone's like sliding down.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:53:46</time>
But that's another famous line from this.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:53:49</time>
One of the things that, one of the last things that I kind of jotted

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:53:51</time>
down that I really enjoyed, partly because I have a daughter, was the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:53:54</time>
father daughter scene by the river.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:53:56</time>
It was just so touching, and I really so appreciated that in this kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:02</time>
comedic movie, to show that he wasn't there just to kind of give his wife a

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:07</time>
hard time, or he wasn't doing things just to kind of be antagonistic towards

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:12</time>
Maureen O'Hara, but he really was trying to like, Help, help his daughter, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:17</time>
And truly help her grow and really give her some real life advice.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:21</time>
And I wrote that down because to me that that scene was so impactful.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:25</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:25</time>
For this movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:27</time>
It was I wouldn't call it out of place in the movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:54:29</time>
I would say it was just the right amount of kind of Kind of character

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:33</time>
building.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:34</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:34</time>
No, it really was a good representation of family And like and you know,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:40</time>
patrick wayne is really in it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:41</time>
So it's another one of the movies where John, wayne has his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:45</time>
real son in the movie with him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:47</time>
You also see the Housekeeper is from the Munsters.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:53</time>
She's the, the wife on the Munsters.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:55</time>
Her husband had just been injured in How the West was Won.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:54:59</time>
So John Wayne made sure to hire her for this movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:55:03</time>
So they had some money.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:55:04</time>
Oh, that's cool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:55:05</time>
So he always was doing stuff like that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:55:06</time>
And I appreciate that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:07</time>
about John Wayne.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:08</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:09</time>
No, it was, it's a very, very fun movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:12</time>
All right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:12</time>
So we're on to our number two here.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:14</time>
And our number two, we actually tied, this is number two for both of us,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:19</time>
The Quiet Man: It's the story of Sean Thornton, a right intended

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:22</time>
man who came from America to forget his past in Innisfree.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:27</time>
There he met a fiery red headed lass, and the village marriage broker went to work.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:32</time>
Have the good manners not to hit the man until he's your husband,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:35</time>
and until he'll hit you back.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:37</time>
Then her bully of a brother, Red Will Danaher, refused

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:40</time>
to pay her rightful dowry.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:41</time>
There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:45</time>
Except those in your own mercenary little heart.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:49</time>
and that is The Quiet Man.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:51</time>
Such a great movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:52</time>
So The Quiet Man comes out in, came out in 1952.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:55</time>
This is one of those few movies I've probably watched.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:58</time>
a dozen times at least.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:55:59</time>
We've, we've watched it quite a few times over the years.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:02</time>
So it's about a retired American boxer, Sean Thornton, returning

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:06</time>
to his Irish homeland, seeking, seeking peace in his family's farm.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:10</time>
He falls for the fiery Mary Kate.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:13</time>
Played again by Maureen O'Hara, but her brother Will despises Sean

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:17</time>
and withholds her dowry, refusing to acknowledge their marriage.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:21</time>
Driven by tradition and pride, Mary Kate refuses to consummate the marriage

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:25</time>
until Sean retrieves the money.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:27</time>
Despite his vow to avoid fighting, Sean must navigate comical brawls, clashes

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:33</time>
with Will, and cultural misunderstandings to win Mary Kate's heart and find

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:37</time>
peace in the land that he calls home.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:39</time>
This is One of my absolute favorites.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:42</time>
We

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:42</time>
usually watch this every St.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:43</time>
Patrick's Day because it is so Irish and filmed in Ireland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:47</time>
And we have actually been there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:49</time>
And this is

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:49</time>
one of the earliest movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:50</time>
Is this the earliest movie that I think we have on the list?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:56:52</time>
Yeah,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:53</time>
1952.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:53</time>
John Wayne's 45 in this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:55</time>
So he looks really good.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:56</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:56</time>
He looks young.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:57</time>
He's young.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:57</time>
Young buck.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:58</time>
And so we've been to Kong.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:56:59</time>
We went in 2006.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:01</time>
We stayed in Ashford Castle.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:02</time>
That's where everybody stayed while filming John Ford,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:04</time>
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:06</time>
Marina Harris just had a baby John Wayne's family was there, Ward

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:09</time>
Bond is in this, Ward Bond is in a couple movies with John Wayne.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:13</time>
He's also plays the cop in It's a Wonderful Life.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:16</time>
So everyone's kind of staying in this castle and then filming in this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:19</time>
little Irish town, Kong, Ireland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:23</time>
It's a family affair.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:24</time>
John Wayne's kids are in this movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:27</time>
The old man who gets out of the bed and watches the fight.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:29</time>
That's John Ford's brother.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:31</time>
Oh, I didn't know that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:32</time>
Oh, well, Maureen O'Hara, the old man who's like, yeah, that's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:35</time>
John Ford's older brother.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:37</time>
There's two Marueen O'Hara's brothers are in this as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:57:40</time>
So it's a real family

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:42</time>
feeling.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:43</time>
Well, and I even again, the top two movies for me on this list are kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:47</time>
More have a more comedic tone to them, but from the very beginning right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:51</time>
I wrote down the line You see that road over there?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:54</time>
Yes Don't take that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:56</time>
That's starting right off in the beginning of the movie, you know, with

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:57:59</time>
them trying to give him directions from the train station to the town.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:58:05</time>
It starts right off.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:58:06</time>
It was just, it's classic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:58:08</time>
And again, it's John

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:08</time>
Ford.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:09</time>
It's John Ford.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:09</time>
And he won best director for this movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:13</time>
Oh, I didn't know that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:13</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:14</time>
It also won best cinematography.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:15</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:16</time>
So when the Oscar for both and it's based on a 1933 Saturday

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:20</time>
evening post short story.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:22</time>
From an Irish author and it tells this story of someone who has, was

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:28</time>
born in Ireland, came to America.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:30</time>
He's from Pittsburgh, which I also love, and then he's coming back to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:33</time>
his family roots to buy his home and to settle back to where he was born.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:39</time>
And like you said, there's a lot of cultural differences and the big one is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:43</time>
the dowry and Maureen O'Hara is really.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:47</time>
Her character, Mary Kate Danaher, is really tied to this dowry.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:51</time>
It means a lot to her.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:53</time>
She is proud of it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:54</time>
She's proud to bring that into her marriage.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:57</time>
And he doesn't care about it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:58</time>
He doesn't need it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:58:59</time>
And because the brother is holding it back, thinking that's going to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:03</time>
be the big thing and he doesn't care she feels insecure and she

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:08</time>
feels kind of like she shouldn't.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:10</time>
be in this marriage.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:11</time>
And that's, that's what he tries to learn.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:13</time>
If it's important to her, it's important to him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:17</time>
And there's some things in here where he's dragging her through the field.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:21</time>
He really did drag her in real life.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:23</time>
I also want to say he really did spank her in McClintock.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:25</time>
She said she was black and blue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:27</time>
I'm like, he should, she said he pulled no punches.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:29</time>
And so he really is dragging her through like, The sheep poop, and in the end,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:35</time>
the very last line, when she whispers something in his ear and he looks at her,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:39</time>
to this day, no one knows what she said.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:41</time>
She took it to her grave.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:42</time>
Oh, wow.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:42</time>
No one knows.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:44</time>
John Ford said, say something to him that's going to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:46</time>
make him like, look at you.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:47</time>
And no one knows.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:59:48</time>
What she said, but her and John,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:59:51</time>
that's crazy.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:59:52</time>
So, so there's a couple of things that I noted down, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:59:54</time>
There's that classic first kiss scene when they're in the house, when it's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:59:58</time>
still kind of a little more rundown with the wind blowing and the, and the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:01</time>
door kind of blows up with the wind and kind of cleaned it up for him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:04</time>
She's kind of cleaned it up for him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:05</time>
Like it's, and I think it's actually kind of what they based one of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:08</time>
those, the movie posters off of.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:10</time>
It's just this ultra classic scene.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:13</time>
Like.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:14</time>
That is, that is a classic Hollywood big movie star first kind of kiss scene.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:19</time>
I just noted that because cinematically and, and just for the movie and just

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:24</time>
Hollywood in general, that's one of those scenes that you kind of see in your

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:28</time>
head when you're thinking of, you know, the leading characters, you know, first

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:33</time>
connecting you know, and then obviously all the cultural differences, like

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:36</time>
the whole town watching when they're, they're having their first date, the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:00:39</time>
matchmaker having to be with them, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:00:42</time>
They're not allowed.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:00:42</time>
No patty fingers, please.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:00:44</time>
Not allowed to touch each other.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:46</time>
Yeah, but this is, this is one of those ones.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:48</time>
It actually did pretty well the year that it came out.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:51</time>
So, and, and as far as kind of box office, you know, and again, this is

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:54</time>
1952, so it's actually really hard.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:56</time>
It's getting harder.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:57</time>
They didn't have as much data.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:00:58</time>
For, for this, the website, I tried to use one single website when I was pulling

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:02</time>
all this, this box office information from the seventies on, it's pretty

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:05</time>
good when you start getting back in the fifties and sixties, a little bit tougher.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:09</time>
But according to, to the website that I was using this came

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:12</time>
in at number four that year.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:13</time>
So seven and a half million dollars, but that's 1952 other shows that came

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:17</time>
out was the greatest show on earth.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:19</time>
That was number one.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:20</time>
We have the script.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:21</time>
We have a little family tie here.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:22</time>
The snows of Kilimanjaro high noon.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:25</time>
Ah, we just talked about that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:26</time>
High Noon came out in 1952.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:28</time>
And this one actually beat out Singing in the Rain.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:31</time>
So that's very interesting.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:32</time>
And Snow White and the Seven

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:33</time>
Dwarfs.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:33</time>
I mean, it's a beautiful movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:35</time>
It's gorgeous.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:37</time>
Even when we stayed in Ashford Castle, they play it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:40</time>
Like you can, you can play it on demand nonstop.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:42</time>
And when you walk around Cong, Ireland, you're walking through

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:46</time>
the scenes of the movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:47</time>
You're walking by

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:47</time>
the church.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:48</time>
We went to those bars and we went down cause they had, they had kind

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:01:51</time>
of redone a lot of the stuff down

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:52</time>
there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:52</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:53</time>
We walked by the cottage.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:55</time>
We walked by the pub where they go in and have their break while

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:57</time>
they're fighting and drink a.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:01:59</time>
drink a pint of beer.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:01</time>
We walk by the church where he meets Mary Kate outside of the church.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:04</time>
It's right by Ashford Castle, and it still looks just as

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:08</time>
picturesque and just as beautiful.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:10</time>
Maureen O'Hara is just the epitome of Irish

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:02:13</time>
beauty in this.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:02:14</time>
Well, and she's even speaking she speaks in the Irish, yeah, in the Gaelic, in

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:02:18</time>
Gaelic, and I don't know what she says.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:02:20</time>
If you know what she says in Gaelic, please put that in the comments.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:02:22</time>
Yeah, and she

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:23</time>
talks to Ward Bond.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:24</time>
So there is a big religion component here because he's catholic and the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:28</time>
protestant pastor is in town and no one's going to the protestant

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:32</time>
services right so they don't know if they want to keep them but they're

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:02:34</time>
trying to help them out

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:37</time>
and so that was really cool too so you're getting a lot of this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:41</time>
irish influence it's a little bit of the irish state they have a couple of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:47</time>
toasts to being a free republic and there's a couple of little nuances

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:52</time>
about the Irish state and the political climate of Ireland at the time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:02:56</time>
But other than that, it really is just a old school Irish story with

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:03:03</time>
an American coming in and figuring it

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:05</time>
out, fantastic characters.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:07</time>
And I don't know, I can't remember the character's name, the one who's kind of.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:10</time>
the chaperone of the town drunk or whatever like that, but he's hilarious.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:03:15</time>
It really is a great movie to watch with St.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:03:17</time>
Patrick's Day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:03:18</time>
So

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:18</time>
that, that was my, my very close.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:20</time>
And honestly, for me, it was a, that practically tied at number

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:23</time>
one and number two for between McClintock and the Quiet Man for me.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:26</time>
So you like comedy?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:27</time>
Yeah, I do.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:28</time>
Those, those kind of tend to rise to my favorites.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:03:30</time>
Now for your number one,

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:03:42</time>
Welcome home, Ethan.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:03:47</time>
When'd you get back?

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:03:49</time>
I ain't seen you since the surrender.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:03:51</time>
Don't believe in surrenders.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:03:53</time>
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:03:57</time>
I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:04:02</time>
Don't call me uncle.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:04:04</time>
I ain't your uncle.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:04:06</time>
Yes, sir.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:04:07</time>
No need to call me sir, either.

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:04:09</time>
What do you want me to call you?

<cite>The Searchers:</cite>
<time>01:04:11</time>
Name's Ethan.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:13</time>
and we are going to do a whole separate video.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:16</time>
about this movie specifically.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:17</time>
So if you want to hear us kind of go more in depth on more of the history,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:21</time>
we're going to talk a lot more about the history on a separate video about Jen's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:25</time>
number one, and that is the searchers.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:27</time>
It

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:04:27</time>
is the best Western of all time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:04:30</time>
In my opinion, it is John Wayne's.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:04:32</time>
Best movie of all time, in my opinion.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:35</time>
Yeah, and for me this came in at number three on this list.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:38</time>
But again, you kind of saw that I favor the comedies a little bit more.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:42</time>
But it was, it was number three and it's very close to the other two because

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:47</time>
This was, you know, in my intro I talked about a genre defining movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:51</time>
Mm-Hmm.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:04:52</time>
. This is one of those movies.

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<time>01:04:53</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:04:53</time>
I mean, this is 1956.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:04:55</time>
John Wayne is 49 years old, but it is to me his best acting, and it is the true

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:02</time>
arc of a character who's going through.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:06</time>
A huge change and that it is John Ford again as director and that is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:12</time>
the story John Ford loved to tell.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:14</time>
Another thing about this movie is cinema, cinemagraphically it's filmed

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:18</time>
in Monument Valley, Utah, and it's just

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:21</time>
beautiful.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:21</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:22</time>
So it's funny because I hadn't seen this movie really until, you know, I don't

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:27</time>
know, it's like maybe four months ago, six months ago that I, that I'd seen it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:30</time>
But I, I was a climber.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:32</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:32</time>
And I've grown up in my 20s and 30s and I had watched, you know, just

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:35</time>
like, you know, if you've ever heard of people watching surfing movies,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:38</time>
they have climbing movies out there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:39</time>
And I was in kind of the early era of that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:42</time>
And I had seen.

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<time>01:05:43</time>
Monument Valley, where there was lots of climbing out there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:45</time>
So I've wanted to go there for other reasons for quite some time.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:49</time>
We almost made a trip out there about

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:51</time>
six months ago.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:52</time>
We're going to do it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:52</time>
The walk with history.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:53</time>
We'll do a searchers video.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:05:55</time>
Yeah, we'll,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:56</time>
we'll, we'll get out there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:05:57</time>
But this movie came out in 1956 and as many of, if you're watching.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:01</time>
this video and you got this far, then you probably know The Searchers.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:05</time>
It's about Ethan Edwards, a Civil War veteran scarred by both battle and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:09</time>
personal loss, returns home to find his brother's family massacred by

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:13</time>
Comanche and his niece Debbie abducted.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:15</time>
Driven by vengeance and prejudice, Ethan embarks on a years long

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:19</time>
quest to find Debbie, blurring the lines between rescue and revenge.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:24</time>
His journey forces him to confront the darkness within himself, grapple

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:27</time>
with changing landscapes and values, and ultimately choose between hatred

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:32</time>
and a fragile hope for redemption.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:35</time>
So some of the things I wrote down, obviously you mentioned the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:38</time>
cinematic, the cinematography.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:39</time>
It's, it's, it's another level, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:43</time>
That's a bar that's been set so high.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:45</time>
There's, there's lots of films that try to, to reach that bar.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:49</time>
That's what John Ford and John Wayne did.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:51</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:51</time>
In this, in this movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:06:53</time>
You know, he, he plays not a typical John Wayne

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:06:57</time>
character.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:06:58</time>
That's why I think his acting is the best in this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:00</time>
He is, I think, the quintessential anti hero.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:04</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:04</time>
Now, in the book, his name is Amos.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:06</time>
It's Ethan Edwards in the movie, he names his, in real

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:09</time>
life, he'll name his son Ethan.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:10</time>
And that's what we talked about in Big Jake.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:12</time>
But Ethan Edwards character is a confederate.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:18</time>
And this is supposed to be 1868.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:20</time>
So it's three years after the end of the Civil War, and they

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:23</time>
haven't seen him in eight years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:26</time>
So he gets back to his family, but you can tell how much he is beloved by his family.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:32</time>
Everyone's walking in with open arms.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:33</time>
He gives a medal to Debbie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:35</time>
His his sister in law takes care of his jacket for him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:39</time>
Like he is a beloved member and you can tell him and his brother

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:42</time>
have a very strong connection.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:46</time>
So when he's away, the Comanche have basically stolen cattle, killed cattle

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:51</time>
far enough away so they can raid the homestead, Ethan's brother's homestead,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:57</time>
and they can't get back to them in time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:07:59</time>
When he's away and he finally makes it back and he's the first one to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:02</time>
encounter this, the book is much more graphic about what he's encountering.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:07</time>
And so then they're burying the family.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:09</time>
And then it's this revenge.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:11</time>
This, this to get Debbie back.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:13</time>
It's, and it's Lucy and Debbie at first, and then Lucy will die.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:16</time>
And so it's really Debbie and what it takes for him to search.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:23</time>
And I know people come sometimes think this movie is boring because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:27</time>
it's just like, Oh, well, and that's the point is that he doesn't stop.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:33</time>
He just keeps going.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:33</time>
He keeps going.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:35</time>
It's not easy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:35</time>
He doesn't find her right away.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:37</time>
He loses the trail.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:40</time>
And he gets right back on it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:41</time>
He takes any clue he can get and he keeps going.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:43</time>
He doesn't stop.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:44</time>
He's relentless in his search.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:46</time>
And so it's like.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:49</time>
You love him and you hate him because he is very racist and he's supposed

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:08:56</time>
to be this is the one thing I get mad about Turner classic movies who Really

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:00</time>
don't want to culturally touch this movie because of the racism, but he's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:04</time>
supposed to be that's the point of the movie It's the point of the movie

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:07</time>
is he is a terrible racist person he is so mad at what has happened to his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:14</time>
family that he's stereotyping them and Making them a group of people to hate

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:20</time>
them so he can keep motivation and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:09:23</time>
so much so that Spoiler alert so much so that by the end of the movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:09:27</time>
I mean he almost doesn't bring he wants to kill Debbie

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:29</time>
So he's encountering real life situations.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:32</time>
I mean this novel written by Alan LeMay was based on real life.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:38</time>
He had, he had searched like 25 different cases.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:41</time>
The biggest one was a man named Britton Johnson, who was an African American

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:45</time>
teamster who ransomed his captured wife and children from the Comanches in 1865.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:50</time>
Then he went back out to search for a girl, Millie Duncan who He never

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:09:55</time>
found cause he was killed in 1871, but there was 25 cases of young girls

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:01</time>
being abducted by the Comanches.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:04</time>
Now this is a time in Texas.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:06</time>
This is supposed to be Texas filmed in Utah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:08</time>
It's supposed to be Texas.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:09</time>
It's called the Texas Comanche Wars.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:11</time>
Sometimes you'll hear the Texas Native American wars.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:14</time>
They happened between 1820 and 1875 and this was really wars.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:18</time>
Think of Mexico, Texas, the U S on one side.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:23</time>
And then the Comanche tribe on another side.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:26</time>
And it really was fight over the land.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:28</time>
And I want to stress, people were massacring each other.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:33</time>
It wasn't just the Comanche massacring homesteads.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:36</time>
It was both.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:37</time>
You'll see depictions in the searchers of the Calvary soldiers

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:43</time>
massacring whole Indian villages.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:46</time>
And so that was, that was this back and forth that was happening at this time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:52</time>
It's not made, John Ford made a point, it's not made to make anybody look good.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:56</time>
It's not made to make anyone look bad.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:10:58</time>
It's made to look like the truth of what

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:00</time>
happened.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:00</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:01</time>
And I think that's, you know, when I was doing my little bit of research, and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:04</time>
again, we've done a lot more research that we'll do in a separate video here,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:08</time>
but that was one of the things that a lot of even the critics and even today

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:11</time>
people will call out that how close it is when the movie is to the book and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:11:15</time>
the book is right based on historical

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:18</time>
research.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:19</time>
Yes, but you're going to get like big characters.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:21</time>
Word bond is in this again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:22</time>
Vera Miles, the same love interest in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:28</time>
will play the love interest to Jeffrey Hunter's character, who is a.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:32</time>
Fourth or an eighth Comanche, but he's the one who searches with John Wayne Yeah

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:37</time>
And so the premise is there were these three families who homesteaded in Texas

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:42</time>
and one of them was John Wayne's brother's family One family was massacred years

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:47</time>
ago and their only son survived And that was the family the son that they took in

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:53</time>
and that's the one who searches with John Wayne He thinks of Debbie as his sister.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:11:57</time>
He tries to call him uncle Ethan You think it's mad.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:00</time>
I'm not your uncle, but he's been raised by this family because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:04</time>
their family was massacred.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:06</time>
And then the other family, which is Vera Miles's family, who's who they eventually

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:10</time>
bring Debbie back to is the third family.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:13</time>
So it's basically these three families who tried to homestead together.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:16</time>
Basically only one makes it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:18</time>
And you see the arc where the Calvary have.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:24</time>
basically massacred an Indian village and taken back some of the white women

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:27</time>
who were kidnapped, but have been Integrated into the Comanche way of life.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:32</time>
You see Ethan encounter these women and they're very much now

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:37</time>
Brainwashed into being a Comanche squaw

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:12:41</time>
Yeah What one thing that I noted down was the scene where Debbie

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:12:45</time>
is the one to show them the scalps?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:12:46</time>
Yeah, the first time I see I, I, I like, I, I literally put in my

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:12:51</time>
notes, I put OMG, like the scene where she shows him the scalps.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:12:54</time>
I was like, oh, I, I was so.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:12:57</time>
Caught off

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:57</time>
guard.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:58</time>
So they look at her.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:12:58</time>
Yeah, so it's been about six years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:00</time>
She's kidnapped at age.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:01</time>
She's about 14 now She's a wife of the chief scar scar is wearing the medal that

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:08</time>
Ethan gave Debbie gave to her It's Ethan's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:11</time>
metal.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:11</time>
Yeah the tension.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:13</time>
Yeah, so,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:14</time>
you know, Ethan knows so now Ethan Wants to know how much is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:19</time>
Debbie still left in there, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:21</time>
and so that's where you see him get more and more aggressive and just bitter and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:28</time>
Scar is also the actor is in red face.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:31</time>
So it's a white actor Australian actor who's pretending to be American Indian.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:36</time>
So that is something that Turner Classic Movies hits on as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:40</time>
But again, something that happened at the time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:42</time>
Now you're going to see a lot of American Indian actors.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:44</time>
I saw the same actors from McClintock who are actually in

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:48</time>
this as well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:48</time>
I noted that, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:50</time>
The, I think the sheriff or something like that or what the marshal,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:54</time>
he played, he was the priest.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:13:55</time>
Oh yeah, Ward

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:57</time>
Bond is in it again too, but I, some of the American Indians who are in

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:13:59</time>
McClintock are also the American Indians.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:01</time>
Yep.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:01</time>
I

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:01</time>
noted that across a couple of movies.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:03</time>
As far as the box office went, it, this one did okay.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:06</time>
So in the box office, it said it did about four and a half million

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:09</time>
dollars, which would have tied it for around number 13, number 12 that year.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:13</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:13</time>
Other movies that came out that year, the 10 commandments, pretty big movie around

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:17</time>
the world in 80 days, the king and I.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:14:20</time>
Those are some of the big ones, Moby Dick,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:22</time>
well, this movie, in 1989, it was picked to be culturally

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:25</time>
significant by the Library of Congress.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:27</time>
This movie is also a huge influence, there's some amazing directors,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:31</time>
Scorsese says this movie is It just inspired him to be a director.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:36</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:37</time>
Spielberg will say this movie, it has inspired him so much in the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:40</time>
scenes and what he likes to do.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:42</time>
Like, it's so much of this movie has influenced culture.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:47</time>
Ethan Edwards likes to say, That'll be the day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:49</time>
When somebody like challenges him, he says, That'll be the day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:52</time>
Buddy Holly wrote a whole song about that one line.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:55</time>
Oh, yeah, that's right.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:14:56</time>
So this movie was such an influence culturally at the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:00</time>
time for a lot of people.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:02</time>
But for me, it's that final scene.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:05</time>
So you got Natalie Wood, young actress at the time, her sister plays her at eight.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:11</time>
She plays herself at 14.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:13</time>
And you think he's chasing her at the very end of the movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:17</time>
This is an exhausting movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:18</time>
It's two hours long.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:20</time>
You're like, finally, he gets her.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:21</time>
Is he going to kill her?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:22</time>
because he's pretty much said he's going to, he gets her, he grabs her

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:26</time>
and he says, let's go home, Debbie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:28</time>
And in that moment, she wants to go home.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:31</time>
She, it's her again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:33</time>
And to me, it's the perfect arc of a character.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:37</time>
And that to me is.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:38</time>
John Dwayne's greatest performance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:40</time>
You see him that that's the climax.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:42</time>
He'll bring her back to the other family.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:15:44</time>
And then he slowly walks away very lonely and

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<time>01:15:48</time>
isolated.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:15:48</time>
Even that final scene again for, for movie makers cinematically

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<time>01:15:53</time>
is incredibly iconic, right?

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<time>01:15:55</time>
Him being framed by that doorway as he walks away and the rest of the family goes

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<time>01:15:59</time>
into the house and he's standing there in this very vulnerable, very vulnerable

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<time>01:16:04</time>
pose and turns around and walks away.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:06</time>
I mean, that is.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:07</time>
That is an incredibly iconic shot right there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:11</time>
So quintessential Western quintessential Western.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:13</time>
This is again, genre defining movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:16:16</time>
And that is my favorite John Wayne movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:18</time>
So we want to hear if you guys agree with our list.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:23</time>
And I'll put the, I'll put our top, our top 10 and I'll compare them.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:26</time>
I'll put them up on the screen.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:27</time>
So you guys can see what Jen's top 10 are in my version of Jen's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:31</time>
top 10 for, for me specifically.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:33</time>
So I want to hear from you guys.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:34</time>
If you made it this far in the video, please let us know what you're, if you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:38</time>
agree with us, if you disagree with us and what's your favorite John Wayne movie is.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:49</time>
Well, partners, we've wrangled our way through the top ten John Wayne

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<time>01:16:53</time>
movies and hopefully sparked some lively discussions along the way.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:16:57</time>
Remember, this list is just our take and the beauty of film is its subjectivity.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:02</time>
So head out there, watch these classics or rediscover them.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:06</time>
And form your own opinions.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:08</time>
Share your thoughts with us in the comments and who knows, maybe we'll have

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:11</time>
another western showdown in the future.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:14</time>
And a huge thank you to all of you who joined us on this cinematic adventure

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:17</time>
through some of the John Wayne classic and a huge thank you to all of you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:22</time>
who joined us on this cinematic adventure through some John Wayne

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:25</time>
classics We'll talk to you next time.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>01:17:27</time>
Thank

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:17:27</time>
you.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>01:17:29</time>
I love John Wayne

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