""I made Rio Bravo because I didn't like High Noon. Neither did Duke. I didn't think a good town..."

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"I made Rio Bravo because I didn't like High Noon. Neither did Duke. I didn't think a good town marshal was going to run around town like a chicken with his head cut off asking everyone to help. And who saves him? His Quaker wife. That isn't my idea of a good Western."

[…] In his Playboy interview from May 1971, Wayne stated he considered High Noon "the most un-American thing I've ever seen in my whole life" and went on to say he would never regret having helped blacklist liberal screenwriter Carl Foreman from Hollywood.

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Howard Hawks destroying any and all desire I will ever have to see Rio Bravo. God forbid somebody write a western in the '50s that actually had the temerity to have principles.  Fuck him and fuck John Wayne, the gutless poser.  (via lowarthighcraft)

John Wayne said some really racist stuff. Seeing him constantly held up as the American heroic ideal is just nauseating.