{"id":36013,"date":"2024-06-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36013"},"modified":"2024-06-18T23:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:07:21","slug":"chisum-1970-starring-john-wayne-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36013","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chisum&#8221; (1970) starring John Wayne \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z062024zview_chisum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Chisum <\/i><\/b>(1970)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Andrew V. McLaglen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Andrew J. Fenady,<\/strong> based on the short story <em>Chisum and the Lincoln County War<\/em> by <strong>Andrew J. Fenady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Bruce Cabot, Patric Knowles, Richard Jaeckel, Geoffrey Deuel, Pamela McMyler, John Agar, Robert Donner, Ray Teal, Edward Faulkner, Ron Soble, William Conrad<\/strong> (voice), <strong>Lee Meriwether<\/strong> and<strong> Lynda Day <\/strong>(<strong>George<\/strong>)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>THE LEGEND &#8211; John Wayne is &#8220;Chisum&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Chisum (Wayne) and Lawrence Murphy (Tucker) are the biggest land owners in Lincoln County, New Mexico.\u00a0 Murphy has been buying up land and businesses by exerting behind-the-scenes pressure.\u00a0 Murphy goes too far when he pays off the sheriff and hires outlaws to rustle cattle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chisum, aided by his trail boss Pepper, along with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett take a stand against Murphy and his gang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Wayne was 44 years into his career when he made <em>Chisum.<\/em> Wayne was the #2 Money-Making Box Office Star for 1970.\u00a0 Paul Newman was #1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christopher George and Lynda Day had met before, but during filming of <em>Chisum<\/em> they fell in love and were later married.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ranch house John Chisum lives in will be reused the following year for Wayne&#8217;s ranch house in <em>Big Jake<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Geoffrey Deuel&#8217;s feature film debut.\u00a0 Geoffrey is Pete Duel&#8217;s younger brother.\u00a0 They look enough alike to be twins.\u00a0 Pete changed his last name for professional reasons.\u00a0 Pete would become famous for his role on <em>Alias Smith and Jones<\/em>.\u00a0 Sadly Pete Jones died from a self-inflicted gunshot on December 31, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Meriwether&#8217;s only appearance in the film is in a photograph in Chisum&#8217;s pocket watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Wayne was reportedly disappointed that his stuntman was so obvious in the big fight scene with Forrest Tucker.\u00a0 Tucker&#8217;s stunt man was Jim Burk who performed stunts on over 50 movies including <em>Tango &amp; Cash, Conan the Barbarian<\/em> and <em>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chisum<\/em> is based on the Lincoln County War of 1878.\u00a0 Although fictionalized, several of the characters in the film were based on real people and events.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Chisum <\/i><\/b>(1970) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z062024zview_chisum2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chisum (1970) Director: Andrew V. 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