John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke
As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today. In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies, these pithy lessons will be appealing to John Wayne fansand Western film buffs.
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John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke
As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today. In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies, these pithy lessons will be appealing to John Wayne fansand Western film buffs.
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John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke

John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke

by Douglas Brode
John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke

John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke

by Douglas Brode

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As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today. In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies, these pithy lessons will be appealing to John Wayne fansand Western film buffs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493039296
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 10/01/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 1,040,999
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Douglas Brode is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, film historian, and multi-award winning journalist. He is the author of more than 30 books on film and the mass media.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

The Big Trail (1930) 1

The Hurricane Express (1932) 2

The Shadow of the Eagle (1932) 5

The Telegraph Trail (1933) 6

Somewhere in Sonora (1933) 8

The Three Musketeers (1933) 11

His Private Secretary (1933) 12

The Man from Monterey (1933) 14

Sagebrush Trail (aka An Innocent Man) (1933) 15

Blue Steel (1934) 17

The Lucky Texan (1934) 19

The Star Packer (1934) 21

Paradise Canyon (1935) 23

Texas Terror (1935) 25

Rainbow Valley (1935) 26

The Desert Trail (1935) 27

The Dawn Rider (1935) 29

Born to the West (aka Hell Town) (1937) 30

Three Texas Steers (1939) 31

Stagecoach (1939) 33

Allegheny Uprising (1939) 35

The Long Voyage Home (1940) 36

Seven Sinners (1940) 38

Three Faces West (1940) 39

The Dark Command (1940) 41

A Man Betrayed (1941) 42

The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) 44

In Old California (1942) 45

The Spoilers (1942) 47

Pittsburgh (1942) 48

Flying Tigers (1942) 49

Reap the Wild Wind (1942) 50

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) 52

War of the Wildcats (aka In Old Oklahoma) (1943) 53

The Fighting Seabees (1944) 55

Tall in the Saddle (1944) 56

They Were Expendable (1945) 57

Dakota (1945) 59

Back to Bataan (1945) 61

Tycoon (1947) 62

Angel and the Badman (1947) 64

Fort Apache (1948) 65

3 Godfathers (1948) 67

Wake of the Red Witch (1948) 68

Red River (1948) 69

The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) 71

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) 73

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 75

Rio Grande (1950) 77

Flying Leathernecks (1951) 79

Operation Pacific (1951) 80

Big Jim McLain (1952) 82

The Quiet Man (1952) 83

Trouble Along the Way (1953) 85

Island in the Sky (1953) 86

Hondo (1953) 87

The High and the Mighty (1954) 89

Track of the Cat (1954) 91

Blood Alley (1955) 92

The Sea Chase (1955) 94

The Searchers (1956) 95

The Conqueror (1956) 97

Seven Men from Now (1956) 99

Gun the Man Down (1956) 100

The Wings of Eagles (1957) 101

Legend of the Lost (1957) 102

Jet Pilot (1957) 105

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) 106

The Horse Soldiers (1959) 107

Rio Bravo (1959) 109

The Alamo (I960) 111

North to Alaska (1960) 113

The Comancheros (1961) 115

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 117

The Longest Day (1962) 119

How the West Was Won (1962) 121

Hatari! (1962) 123

McLintock! (1963) 124

Donovan's Reef (1963) 126

Circus World (1964) 127

In Harm's Way (1965) 128

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) 129

The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) 131

Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) 132

El Dorado (1966) 135

The War Wagon (1967) 136

Hellfighters(1968) 138

The Green Berets (1968) 139

True Grit (1969) 141

The Undefeated (1969) 143

Chisum (1970) 145

Rio Lobo (1970) 147

Big Jake (1971) 149

The Cowboys (1972) 151

The Train Robbers (1973) 153

Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) 155

McQ (1974) 156

Rooster Cogburn (1975) 157

Brannigan (1975) 159

The Shootist (1976) 160

Index 162

About the Author 173

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