John Wayne Interview | Cinema Showcase (1976)

The Duke sits down with Jim Whaley to discuss John Ford, Howard Hawks, the future of westerns, and his latest picture "The Shootist." All this and more in this installment of WPBA-TV's "Cinema Showcase!"
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[@Soxruleyanksdrool]

There is no more fitting final film roll that any actor ever had than John Wayne had with The Shoitist. He played many sharpshooters in his many westerns throughout the years. Then he got cancer in real life. So his final roll as an old gunfighter who gets diagnosed with cancer was absolutely perfect. It's like Hollywood made a film about the end of his life. Almost better than if it were a documentary. John Wayne was my pop's favorite actor. I can never watch one of his pictures without thinking of him.

[@madmanmechanic8847]

Wow he is so grounded and so down to earth in the interview , He was a superstar and there is no ego at all through it all he stayed grounded and humble. I cried like a baby when he passed away just love this man.

[@rickarra1833]

I still watch his movies, over and over again

[@alvaropelayo8084]

I have loved Duke Wayne all my life. And I will forever

[@c.rusimko5303]

DITTO

[@loriharris1215]

Me too 😊🇺🇸

[@worrywart1311]

or at least until God's round-up day for you.

[@thomaschacko6320]

The interviewer is right - John Wayne deserved at least a nomination for “The Shootist.” I would have given him the Oscar! Great film, great cast!

[@MsBenlane]

for whatever reason com,edies, musicals, westerns, adventure pics, film noir tended to be ignored in favor of dramas.

[@stevemartinovich]

Agreed

[@katherinehayes9110]

So many performances he should have gotten an Oscar for:The Searchers and The Quiet Man

[@michaelnivens6267]

@@katherinehayes9110 - and Red River

[@michaelnivens6267]

and The Cowboys

[@MrPerthglory]

The shootist was a great final film for the big guy. Terrific film 🎥

[@theresachiorazzi4571]

John Wayne is a name that has been revered for ages he’s a man’s man that people look up to. A good actor we love his movies and style he comes off tough but I think he was a kitty at at heart. R I P John you did good.

[@jasonmadewell3917]

John Wayne is an American Icon. "BAR NONE"!

[@bapcorp8303]

If the world had more people like John what an amazing world it would be

[@discernment8963]

Frankly I couldn't agree more personally. However, having an honest person of such strong character in the public eye. Particularly a caucasian male,now that would go entirely against today's agenda, now wouldn't it?

[@c.rusimko5303]

Yes if more John Wayne type where in the USA a fool like Biden wouldn’t be around

[@Moosetta]

@@c.rusimko5303 Completely unnecessary, useless comment.

[@c.rusimko5303]

@@Moosetta thanks for your empty input

[@2bigbufords]

you mean good actors?

[@josephmazzotta8813]

John Wayne was a God send to America 🇺🇸

[@johnakerman5428]

A giant of a man. A giant of an actor.

[@Frank_Nemo]

But not a giant in the armed forces in WWII

[@lonmcq7317]

@@Frank_Nemo Get over it...

[@CHaas-bn3xi]

Such an humble man, I grew up watching John Wayne movies, he wasn't only one the best actor's to grace the screen he was a great American.

[@rogerquintanilla863]

He was a far better actor then some that have gotten the award in the last 30 years. Hollywood has not been good for many years.

[@dianehead6626]

Hopefully many young men WILL be like John How blessed the world would be❤

[@eddierushing8707]

No matter the politics this man represented America so well in his magnificent westerns. The Shootist is truly a masterpiece and is a fond farewell to classic movies in general. John Ford could definitely paint a picture with his choice of landscapes.

[@marcchevalier3750]

WRONG. I am A RIGHT CONSERVATIVE AND I SUPPORT HIS views. IF YOU DON'T LIKE HIS VIEWS THEN DON'T WATCH HIS MOVIES. I LOVE CONSERVATIVE CELEBRITIES... NEVER LIBTARD

[@discernment8963]

Just curious, if staunch pro America politics are just so repulsive in your opinion. If you aren't a parasite why would you continue living in this country?

[@discernment8963]

@Seth Rotta True & typical of the textbook Keyboard Warrior he is.

[@williamtecumsehsherman4343]

​@@discernment8963 "Pro-America" politics are worthless, you should be concerned with "Pro-American" politics instead, such as smashing the capitalists who destroyed the country for short-term profit, emancipating the workers who actually run our society, and investing our vast riches back into the people rather than the pockets of a select few parasites.

[@discernment8963]

@@williamtecumsehsherman4343 Oh, I'm Pro American as well as Pro non corrupt/Swamp America. What I'm not is Pro communist/socialist/Leftist America or American for that matter. Semantically, fill in whatever fits the blank. I not Pro your People's Republic of America fantasy either Bill.

[@jamesryan4261]

Nice to see The Duke sit down, but one can see his health challenges. While sad I’m also glad to see this footage.

[@germaineprien7691]

Always a pleasure to hear him and see him, my kinda man. They don't make um like this anymore. 🙋‍♀️👍🙌

[@mattdavid5830]

The Duke has been my favourite actor for 48 years and will continue to be so until the day I die.🤠

[@aussiedownunder4186]

What you see on the screen is The Duke! No different in real life. A living Legend!!

[@vegasdano7569]

The Duke should have won, a Oscar for the shootist.

[@wayascotokee311]

The Duke should have easily won 2 more oscars for The Cowboys and The Shootist.

[@chrisf7189]

and maybe for The Searchers

[@ItsALLCAP]

My favorite Wayne movie was Chisum. The stampede ending has always been fermented in my mind as the best western ending of all time.

[@johngroves9828]

Such a class act in every interview I ever saw. Polite, friendly, funny. Did not care to make fun of himself or give others around him credit for helping him achieve success.

[@larryoconnor7094]

Wayne was an honest, humble man while a magnificent actor.

[@TheMiketyson9]

He had controversial views 😳 of other races Member of the KKK racist!

[@dewilew2137]

No he wasn’t 😂

[@troycarpenter3675]

He sure as hell was

[@theequalizer9154]

​@@troycarpenter3675I'll second THAT!

[@johnnelson1591]

​@dewilew2137 go play in the freeway clown 🤡

[@edcampion3998]

Thanks for posting love this guy

[@fuita227]

Fortunate to meet the big man in Bracketville,Texas when I was still a teenager back in the early seventies..never met a more iconic figure.

[@lewiefrazier1041]

The Duke is probably the most beloved actor ever. He didn't make bad movies

[@vladimirhorowitz]

That is, until the woke mob came for him.

[@gunterangel]

And even if the movie itself wasn't that great or mediocre, he saved it solely by his charisma and made it worth to be watched because of him.

[@johnholiday4622]

@@vladimirhorowitz he died because he went to a nuclear test sight everyone that was with him there died too. Idk about the mob.

[@vladimirhorowitz]

@@johnholiday4622 I don't know about his death. I'm just pointing out that he was one of the most beloved actors until the woke left found out he said things they disagreed with 70 years ago and tried to erase him from our culture.

[@dewilew2137]

@@vladimirhorowitz hes a POS, get over it. No one cares if you still like him, but no one else has to like him. You big baby. 🙄

[@charlesclayton5441]

I am old enough to remember a lot of his early films. He had a magnificent presence then and still does today! “That’s right pilgrim” Rest In Peace. You will be remembered and loved!

[@carmenroffa]

1 word LEGEND.

[@johnlumwhal155]

Great interview! I liked the way he described the different styles of directing between John Ford and Howard Hawks. It was very interesting.

[@letitrest4662]

John Wayne was a "father figure", who made movies. The movie ; "Cowboys", I can imagine, in a way personified the Duke. I imagine that every male child actor that worked with him. wanted to be him.

[@thecrow9920]

LEGEND 🎬🥀🖤

[@juneclark3584]

He was a humble and kind man. And excellent actor 😉

[@uthmaanpacsa7259]

John Wayne is the biggest movie star in America the world over and he has the biggest star on the American Flag. Love you big John Wayne. RIP.

[@paulapeterson-warnock3030]

Love, love John Wayne. He was a down to Earth class act

[@ThuyNguyen-ec1rb]

He is gone but our love for him still here and it's last and last there is no replacement, he is the best

[@deanlaster1724]

We need John Wayne now‼️

[@theequalizer9154]

We need men like John Wayne now, in the cinema, and his life.

[@jonchaney]

Wow! He had charisma!!!! Damn!!!!

[@frankgilbert5148]

My all time favorite actor!!

[@mattpastell3728]

The Shootist was sadly, his last film. Gone but not forgotten!

[@wesmcgee1648]

June 11, 2022. Duke passed away 43 years ago today. Exactly 10 years before his death, True Grit debuted in the theatres June 11, 1969.

[@garywheeler60]

A true Patriot who actually loved the Country . Tough to find in Hollywood anymore.

[@philiphalpenny3783]

Interesting to hear the Duke talk about the difference between Ford & Hawks. I love how Orson Welles compared the two..." Ford is great poetry...Hawks is great prose".

[@majscrap2629]

The Duke was a man of his times and he wasn't bashful nor apologetic for it. The recent (last 10 years) to vilify such men and people for that matter on today's screwed up social bug-a-boos is stupid. We are all flawed in some way and have our own ways of looking at things including opinions others do not share. He was no different than ANYONE else. Just famous.

[@jeffneis553]

John Wayne was a great star, sad to see him so sick, he was one of the best if not THE BEST western and all around actor there was.

[@photo161]

Like everone who worked with"the Duke," you just gotta love and respect the man. There's just no two ways about it.

[@patrickc3419]

I would have loved to have met him.

[@guileniam]

Orson Welles said this dude had the best manners of anyone he's ever met and it shows here. He may have been racist, or insensitive who knows, but he seems to have garnered much respect and affection through his behavior regardless. I also believe it may he wrong to judge a man who can't defend himself

[@oldcop18]

The Shootist was one of Duke’s best movies.

[@sveronih5376]

A Man’s Man!

[@robertayoder2063]

Thanks for this interview

[@ruthcallahan3122]

He will never forget by his Fans.

[@frankshewmake9753]

I don't care what cancel culture says. He, for his time, was a great actor and American.

[@DCJNewsMedia]

John Wayne was a man's man of his day. Never politically correct, which didden even exist during his time. He spoke his truth and did it honestly. He was a hard but very fair man. He was real. He was a gigantic icon of his day. And is known worldwide And after his death about 45 plus years ago, he is just starting to fade away into history.. Fantastic actor. He could make you believe what he said. The children in the Cowboys 🤠 said many great things about him as children and later as adults and some now in their 60s in up in age. They still say the same things about him to this day. Today, people apply today's standards of political correctness and not the standards of his day. In 50 years from now, people will judge us by their standards and not ours today. Oftentimes, the people of Today put our standards upon the pilgrims of the late 1500s forward and of our nation's founding ... But it's not fair in a politically correct world to acknowledge each generation sets its own standards of their day... and so forth and so on. So what happened in 2000 doesn't apply but in a little part today and was but 24 years ago. Jump back 60 years ago to Kennedy and MLK, Malcolm X, black Panthers, and KKK. The standards of their time don't fit in today's standards. To be fair, honest, and fully transparent. Anyone has to be judged by the standards of their day. Otherwise, it's very skewed at best to polar opposites . In 2050, people will say very unkindly things about us, and their outlook on history will be very different from ours in today's times. So think about that before you judge people of the past. I'm just keeping it real 💯😢

[@MarkGoodwin-pb3qk]

Thank you DAD for telling me about John Wayne...Best COWBOY EVER!

[@lioness7582]

John Wayne had. been making movies since the late 30s , that being said his attitudes and the way he was represents a different time, they thought differently,so you can't judge the man by today's attitudes.

[@thelastjohnwayne]

And soon after this interview Western Films became more rare each year.

[@gunterangel]

Totally right ! The main reason was just one year after John Waynes last movie "The Shootist" was released, "Star Wars" changed everything. It started the sci-fi- and special- effects- craze that is still in overdrive today since 1977. From this point on westerns would become old-fashioned and hopelessly outdated , at least in the eyes of the youth , the main movie goers, and only big-budget-blockbusters would make it big at the box-office. And sadly it's quite probable , that if John Wayne had lived some ten years longer thru the eighties either he'd had completely retired from the movies or he'd had reduced his movie career to occasional guest-star appearences in some of the big-budget TV- mini-series typical of that time period, "The Blue and the Grey" for instance.

[@davidhayden3849]

The Shootist - great movie

[@markdubois3614]

You could see some deep. emotions from Wayne when he was asked about john ford!

[@thomasmclarnon5844]

He's not a Duke. He's a king

[@maximilianoprovini]

I love John movies.and interviews.❤😊

[@mazishahabi7168]

Pure class that’s what the Duke is.

[@ChristopheLhuissier-q4j]

This wonderful actor i m french...normandy Christophe 🇺🇸🇫🇷

[@eddie12454]

He had a tremendous presence in movies. Wonderful movie star. Great interview and Mr Wayne showed no ego when speaking, like some stars. He should have had an Oscar for playing Dunston in Red River. "Take 'em to Missouri Matt".

[@leespiderpod]

Yes, Red River is my favourite John Wayne film. He should’ve played more villains/bad guys

[@eddie12454]

@leespiderpod Watch Wake Of The Red Witch mate. He plays a seaman who was sort of baddish. One Dukes favourite films. Not surprised when playing opposite lovely Gail Russell. 😊

[@leespiderpod]

@@eddie12454 Nice one, I haven’t seen that!

[@dippin1523]

he is right about John Ford. one of the greatest.

[@vincentbelfire2873]

John Wayne and James Arness are my favorite western stars,

[@popcornenglishonline9548]

John Wayne was the American Icon

[@lonmcq7317]

... And still is...

[@timrake5497]

His pain and discomfort of his cancer are visible and it hurts just to watch, but there he is anyway...that was John Wayne.

[@WayneGoody-w9l]

Americans Should B Proud Of Peoole Like John Wayne And Elvis,,,'As They R AMERICA',,,,,,,,And Patriotic,,As A Proper Englishman🇬🇧🇺🇲

[@lonmcq7317]

Absolutely!!!

[@willswalkingwest7267]

That voice.

[@philiplewis7252]

Great clip,thanks for sharing

[@eclecticx]

Man was a terrific actor. Should have won Oscars for The Cowboys, The Shootist, and perhaps The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance, which still stands the test of time.

[@John_Duke_Wayne]

Thank you.

[@eusebiothomas2481]

Say what you want of my hero. He was an American.

[@johnsewell6593]

My personal favorite , of ALL of Marion Morrisons films is -- " The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence ".....! A true classic and one thats been terribly overlooked.....Its 1963 If memory be accurate.......!

[@francerichards5955]

Not one person ever said a bad word about him!!!!! He was a giant!!!!!

[@carloscrespo3345]

The screen becomes small when John Wayne is on it

[@bobbyquack4908]

I still miss the Duke. Real people make real impressions.

[@davidtaylor6613]

One of the great Americans.

[@michaeldugan4015]

He was one of the greatest....

[@johnspence8141]

He had cancer at this point, having a lung removed in 77, and succumbing to stomach cancer in 79 at the age of 72

[@a2j.holyloveaffairreyna757]

DEFINITELY UNIVERSALLY KING.OF ENTERTAINMENT 🐎 👢

[@anthonymorales8510]

One of my favorite John Wayne movies is “true Grit”.

[@walterminer4990]

R.I.P. Duke!

[@matthewcaldwell267]

BIG JOHN,just sitting there talking normally without bluster.That'll do for me!!..One of a VERY SMALL KIND.

[@ronniebishop2496]

Man he’s giving want to be students of the picture business a class right now for free.!

[@alexandrudicu7042]

Legendar actor

[@sonjakrause8506]

John Wayne 👍🙂🇺🇲

[@Slipmahoney21]

Sadly, you can tell he is out of breath just giving this interview. Operating off one lung, and a weakened one at that, while trying to talk at length was difficult at best. He was the last of his kind.

[@jansjogren8794]

A real american movie icon!

[@Wes-l2d]

I love John Wayne as if he was my own Grandfather 💪😁🇺🇸

[@jamesbarryobrien3514]

What a man

[@gianca60]

For years and year he was nominated the most loved American actor. Even after his death. Today... I don't know, cause the woke mentality took over many minds.

[@michaelcollins237]

The interviewer did do his homework

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"Get er done" 😄🥰

[@francescobaiz312]

Ancora oggi se c'è un film in tv di john wayne tutti guardano il telefono ma nessuno cambia canale. E come se tutti si sentono al sicuro e lui e li che gira.

[@donaldshryock2852]

Gave my grandson the nick name of the Duke . Been call him that since he was born . February 8 2016 . His name is Brayden Noah . My daughter in law said after John Wayne . Yep after the man himself

[@DodgeMan74]

Nice one buddy 👊

[@michaelcollins237]

The Duke should have ten Oscars RIP

[@stevelamberto5424]

Actors arnt as classy and intelligent today as he was

[@a1kid]

Great westerns are still made. About one every 10-20 years...

[@TheTriplelman]

Tom hanks new western, storyteller is pretty good, realistic gritty

[@chrissmith3369]

Look up the definition of woke pilgram

[@dippin1523]

the shootist may be his best movie.

[@michelleharak7849]

And unfortunately it was his last movie. 😭

[@chiefscheider]

Richie Cunningham was great in it.

[@MrPerthglory]

It’s def in his top 5 that’s for sure. I’d put the man who shot liberty valance, true grit, the searchers, red river alongside the shootist.