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Chisum

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1hr 51min

Genre:

Western

Released:

July 29, 1970

Director:

Andrew V. McLaglen

Distributor:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Starring:

John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George ...more

Synopsis: John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) moves in on several local businesses and takes them over. By the time Chisum and his ally, fellow rancher Henry Tunstall (Patrick Knowles), decide to go to the law, Murphy's already bought and paid ... Full Synopsis

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	Brendon Hanley, AMG Review John Wayne was one of the few personalities who could carry a movie almost entirely on his personality, and Chisum is one of those movies. It came out in 1970, a year after Wayne won an Oscar for his self-referential role in True Grit and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch revolutionized the screen Western. Hollywood studios (behind the times as usual) continued to make the genre the old fashioned way ... Full Review

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	John Wayne John Chisum Forrest Tucker Lawrence Murphy Christopher George Dan Nodeen Ben Johnson James Pepper

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	Cow Town (1950) Heart of the West (1937)

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