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By the end of 1960s, the вЂњWesternвЂќ film genre was dying, at least the kind of classical American Westerns that made a star out of Duke was being made only by John Wayne. вЂњChisumвЂќ perfectly encapsulates this dichotomy by presenting Duke as both a powerful вЂmegastarвЂ™ of his realm, as well as, as a man whoвЂ™s slowly becoming obsolete in a new world being challenged and even overtaken by the upstarts and unscrupulous kind who stop at nothing to achieve their objectives, while Duke(вЂs characters) still steadfastly stick to a moral code. By 1970, after being in the film business for more than 40 years, Duke was still at the top of his game, but the times were changing, and Duke knew it. Anyway, you donвЂ™t get to be the biggest American movie-star of all-times by playing other people. John Wayne is at his best when he plays вЂJohn WayneвЂ™.

Though in theory, Duke had played a lot of real life characters, like Davy Crockett, General Sherman, Frank вЂњSpigвЂќ Wead, Genghis Khan, Townsend Harris etc., letвЂ™s be frank, it was more the case of them playing John Wayne than the other way around. Ah! but who would go to the cinemas to watch that John Wayne?. From everything that I have read, the real John Chisum was much more the dapper businessman, who left the fighting and gun play to his employees. Fenady has most of the basic facts straight, except, the real John Chisum was actually not at all like the rough-and-tumble cowboy played by Wayne in this film.

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Although there is a good deal of artistic license taken in terms of historical events, screenwriter Andrew J. Years later, Garrett would be the lawman who hunted down and killed the Kid. These events are played out in this John Wayne Western in a more fictionalized form, and they include some larger-than-life characters including Billy the Kid (Geoffrey Deuel) and Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett), who were on friendly terms when they worked for Chisum.

When a rival general store opened, Chisum backed it and set in motion the events that led to the five-day war which escalated after Chisum found out that Murphy had been responsible for the theft of some of his cattle. Murphy and his partner James Dolan had a government contract that allowed them a virtual monopoly on selling goods and beef in the area. Ironically, the trouble started, not over cattle, but over the control of dry goods. Duke plays John Chisum, who was one of the founders of Lincoln County but his power was threatened when businessman Lawrence Murphy began encroaching on his business interests.

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His first movie following his Oscar win was вЂњChisumвЂќ, a dramatic and exciting Western based on the Lincoln County Cattle War of 1878 in New Mexico in the days before the territory gained statehood. The year was 1970 and John Wayne was riding high, after being awarded his only Oscar winning the prestigious honor for his triumphant performance in the 1969 film adaptation of the best-selling novel вЂњTrue GritвЂќ. The question is not posed at John Simpson Chisum: legendary, real-life, Lincoln County cattle baron who is supposedly extolled in the title song but at the legendary movie star John вЂDukeвЂ™ Wayne: who plays a highly fictionalized version of the eponymous cattle baron, and whoвЂ™s the real legend extolled throughout the 111 minutes running time of this film. Can you still keep goinвЂ™ on?вЂњДЄs William ConradвЂ™s deep baritone intones this question on the soundtrack- his words propelled by an all-male chorus singing вЂњ Chisum, John ChisumвЂњ- the colorful paintings by Western scene artist Russ Vickers transforms into moving images of the magnificent profile of John Wayne astride a horse and you get the gist of this film. McLaglen, is a a typical вЂJohn WayneвЂ™ Western in the final phase of WayneвЂ™s career, and like its legendary star, the film tries to reconcile the traditional with the modern. Chisum(1970), starring John Wayne in the title role and directed by Andrew V.

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