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The War Wagon. Roger Ebert June 01, 1967. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The War Wagon" is that comparative rarity, a Western filmed with quiet good humor. It is also a point of departure for John Wayne, who plays a bad guy for just about the first time in his career.
Advertise With Us. Rancher Taw Jackson (John Wayne) is out for revenge. He was shot by a gunslinger, Lomax (Kirk Douglas), on the orders of mining tycoon Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot) and framed for ...
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TOP CRITIC. The War Wagon is that comparative rarity, a Western filmed with quiet good humor. It is also a point of departure for John Wayne, who plays a bad guy for just about the first time...
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Few stars have a filmography as stacked as John Wayne, both from a volume and quality standpoint. Whether you look at the 1930s or the 1970s, you can find a legitimately great movie with John Wayne top-billed without breaking a sweat. The inevitable consequence of a deep and wide-ranging career is that a lot of excellent movies fall through the cra...
One of the selling points of The War Wagon is its star power. Despite being extremely different people, the pair work perfectly on screen. The War Wagon is the last of their collaborations as well as their third in as many years, having previously appeared together in In Harm’s Way and Cast a Giant Shadow, and they show off their rapport right from...
The bar brawl is a core feature of many Westerns, and The War Wagon features one of the best. Sometimes the action can lean too far into humor (the mud-hole fight in McClintock! is a good example) or be completely devoid of it, but this particular brawl straddles the line perfectly. There are broken bottles, broken chairs, broken windows, and a pia...
Bank robberies, train robberies, carriage robberies, and, well, just about any kind of robbery you can think of are staples of the Western genre. However, very few Westerns should really be considered heist movies. It is perhaps an esoteric distinction, but something being stolen is not the same as something being heisted. There’s a level of planni...
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Feb 1, 2020 · The shootouts and cinematography in The War Wagon are mostly nothing special, coming at the tail end of an era where Westerns were kind of just cranked out. But there’s a F*CKING GREAT saloon brawl scene with overplayed punches and much buffoonery, which Lomax watches all nonchalant. If you don’t love a good 50-man bar fight accompanied by ...
'The War Wagon' will never be considered one of John Wayne's great Westerns like 'Rio Bravo', 'The Searchers', or 'Red River', but it is a an enjoyable Western with fine performances and great rapport between Kirk Douglas and John Wayne.
