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** "I'm just an old man afraid of the light".
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** "I'm just an old man afraid scared of the light".dark".
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* QuestionableCasting: There was some opposition to Creator/JohnWayne's casting, as the producers believed that he was be too old to be a gunfighter at 68 (the character in the book was in his fifties).
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* WTHCastingAgency: There was some opposition to Creator/JohnWayne's casting, as the producers believed that he was be too old to be a gunfighter at 68 (the character in the book was in his fifties).
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A gunslinger John Wayne shoots in the head may be more recognizable decades later as Jonathan Goldsmith, Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A gunslinger John Wayne shoots in the head may be more recognizable decades later as Jonathan Goldsmith, Creator/JonathanGoldsmith, Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A gunslinger John Wayne shoots in the head may be more recognizable decades later as Jonathan Goldsmith, Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: A weaselly reporter shows up and offers to write an exploitative piece of yellow journalism on Books, who responds by sticking a gun barrel in the guy's mouth and curtly advising him to "Pretend this is a nipple."
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* WTHCastingAgency: There was some opposition to Creator/JohnWayne's casting, as the producers believed that he was be too old to be a gunfighter at 68 (the character in the book was in his fifties).
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* AwardSnub: Creator/JohnWayne believed that his performance would gain him an Oscar nomination, even putting ads in Variety. He blamed the studio's lack of promoting the film on his failure to get nominated.
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* AwardSnub: Creator/JohnWayne believed that his performance would gain him an Oscar UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination, even putting ads in Variety.''Variety''. He blamed the studio's lack of promoting the film on his failure to get nominated.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Books wanting to kill for sport one last time or were his final three victims legitimate bad guys?
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* TearJerker:
** "I'm just an old man afraid of the light".
** The ending.
** Hell, most of the film. The sight of Creator/JohnWayne, an icon of masculinity, as a frail, sick, dying old man is enough to make grown men cry. The fact that this was his final film doesn't help at all.
** "I'm just an old man afraid of the light".
** The ending.
** Hell, most of the film. The sight of Creator/JohnWayne, an icon of masculinity, as a frail, sick, dying old man is enough to make grown men cry. The fact that this was his final film doesn't help at all.
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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/JohnCarradine's cameo as Hezekiah Beckum the undertaker.
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* AwardSnub: Creator/JohnWayne believed that his performance would gain him an Oscar nomination, even putting ads in Variety. He blamed the studio's lack of promoting the film on his failure to get nominated.
* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/JohnWayne's final performance is one of his very best.
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/JohnWayne's final performance is one of his very best.
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