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-Final film of Howard Hawks.
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-Howard Hawks later said, "I didn't think it was any good." He also blamed the film's poor critical and commercial performance on John Wayne, saying that at 63 the star was now too old to carry a movie.
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-When John Wayne visits Bill Williams in the sheriff's office, there is a wanted poster on the wall for Hondo Lane, the character Wayne played in Hondo, l'homme du désert.
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-John Wayne was in poor health during filming, and had great difficulty getting on and off his horse.
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-Jack Elam, playing the "Old Man", was more than a decade younger than John Wayne.
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-During a break in filming John Wayne collected his Best Actor Oscar for 100 dollars pour un shérif from Barbra Streisand at The 42nd Annual Academy Awards. When he returned, every member of the cast was wearing an eye patch - including his horse!
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-Film debut of Peter Jason.
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-Writer and reporter George Plimpton was cast in a minor role in this film (4th Gunman) while collecting research on the film industry. In a TV documentary shown during this time he commented that John Wayne kept calling him "Pimpleton" as a joke.
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-The actress who portrays Amelita is Sherry Lansing, who was the first woman to head a major Hollywood studio when she became president of 20th Century Fox in 1980. In 1992 she became the chairman of Paramount Pictures, stepping down as CEO in 2004.