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Sibling Relationship | Texas
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Theatrical Motion Picture | 1966 | Michael Anderson
Budget 6,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 23,000,000 USD
Dean Martin later said of John Wayne, "Someone else would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn't know how to be sick. He's recuperating the hard way. He's two loud speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, 'Oh, there goes Perry Como.' But there's only one John Wayne, and nobody makes any mistakes about that".
After being cast in the role of youngest son Bud Elder, Tommy Kirk was fired from the film after being arrested for possession of marijuana at a party on Christmas Eve 1964. Photographs of him wearing police handcuffs made the front pages of newspapers, and consequently he found it increasingly difficult to get film roles. The role of Bud was recast with Michael Anderson Jr..
Before John Wayne signed on for the film in June 1964, Charlton Heston had been sought to play John Elder.
When John Wayne is dragged into the river, a child calls out, "Come on Dad!" This was his three-year-old son Ethan Wayne, who was watching off camera and knew how ill his father was. Wayne contracted a serious cold due to filming this scene, and narrowly avoided the cold worsening into full blown pneumonia.
This movie marked the return of John Wayne to work after having a cancerous lung and two ribs removed just four months earlier. He insisted on doing some of his own stunts to show the public that the illness hadn't slowed him down.
"Tom Elder: Mr. Hastings, you know everybody around here: Can you tell us who is the dirty stinkin' lowdown rat that shot our pa?"
"John Elder: All we want to do is make you end up rich and respectable. You fight us every step of the way. Bud Elder: I don't want to be rich and respectable. I want to be just like the rest of you."
