By the time the Duke had done "Chisum" he was 64 years old , had his left lung removed 6 years earlier, and just 9 years to live.
I suppose we "went" to "A John Wayne MOVIE" .... he was that great a draw....
A year earlier, he'd done True Grit .... he even survived two clunkers in McQ & Brannigan and had the Shootist as his swan song.
When you ask ,
Did we care when the movie was current? I think...NO ...he was JOHN WAYNE still bigger than life.
If he's on I still watch over and over
Favorites
The Quite Man , Searchers, Donovan's Reef , They Were Expendables , Blood Alley, Wings of Eagles , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , Operation Pacific , Sands of Iwo Jima , Horse Soldiers, In Harm's Way , McLintock & the Cavalry Trilogy
In no particular order