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In the early 1970s, Johnon Wayne, probably the biggest 20th -century star, made reasonably profitable films on an impressive decent clip for a man who lost lungs on cancer. Although it seemed significantly older than it was (a by -product of heavy smokes, heavy drinking and too many hours spent under the sun as an actor and an external man), he felt obliged to continue making films to support the conservative values ​​for his aging fans, and, whether they were, or not,

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More often than not, Wayne's films of the 1970s felt old-fashioned, but the actor, now in his 60s, was ready to expose his image to keep up with changes in the flavors of Movieegoers. After Wayne He declined the lead role in Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry" (A decision he regrets), he starred in the Grit-for-himm drama "MCQ". He also allowed himself to kill himself in Mark Ridge's "cowboys" as a means of learning young people a lesson on what is needed to be human.

Wayne was ready to try, but when it comes to sharing a screen with the man who tightened him as a favorite western star in the world, the Duke had nothing. On the one hand, this was surprising; In terms of his political views and general temperament, Clint Eastwood was not so different from Wayne. But when the younger Starwar approached the western icon with an attractive scenario of a qualified genre technician, Larry Cohen, Wayne brutally refused. Why was he so dead to work with Eastwood?

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While talking to Michael Doyle, the author of "Larry Cohen: Things of Gods and Monsters," The writer-director of such horror classics as "God told me to", "It's alive" and "Q: Winged Snake" told the disappointing story of how Wayne was constantly, constantly, constantly, angry He shot the offer for an Eastwood co-stint in a promising project that was then called the "Hosts". The film will play Eastwood as a young gambler, who won half of the old gun ranch in playing with poker. The two men remain to protect their property and a young woman (who are both sweet) from a bandits horde, which would basically give Wayne the opportunity to make Another West Siege (in "Rio Bravo") with Eastwood.

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However, Wayne was not in the mood for the torch that passed by his career. He rejected Eastwood completely for the first time when he was asked. At the moment, Cohen thought he could convince Blusteri Duke by sending a copy of the script to the son of Starvala Michael, who agreed to hand over his father's script as the couple went on a weekend boat. According to the younger Wayne, his father will be bored of his mind and, thus open to reading a book to spend time.

According to Cohen, this withdrew in humiliating fashion. As he told Doyle:

"Next week, I got Michael on the phone and asked him what happened. He said," Well, Dad was sitting on the ship and handing him the script. He looked at him for a few minutes and then said, 'This piece of *** again!' And then he threw it on the plane. And Bob Barbash! " "

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Unfortunately, Eastwood wouldn't make the movie with someone other than Wayne. Cohen has set the Starwater director of legendary actors like George F. Scott or Burt Lancaster in the role of Wayne, but Eastwood was simply not disinterested in moving forward without the duke.

While Cohen called Wayne's Snee, the biggest heart -breaking heart, he could at least take some comfort in knowing that Wayne's resistance had much more to do with his harassment of Eastwood's films from the script.

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Although it is true that Wayne felt that Cohen's script is something like a revisionist Western, he was more delayed by the films that turned Eastwood into his successor to the genre. In an interview with Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan, Eastwood said the Duke once wrote it A letter that sets his hit in 1973 "High Plains Drifter". According to Eastwood, "he said that it was not about the people who pionered the West. I realized that there were two different generations and he would not understand what I was doing. Hours of pioneering dragons should not be shown.

That letter used every hope that Wayne and Eastwood would ever share the big screen. (The former has never had a chance to soften his decision because he died at the age of 72 in 1979.) As for the "hosts", Cohen rejoiced at the sale of the script, which he co-wrote with Bob Barbash, Halmark in the late $ 2000. The screenwriter said he did it just to send half of the money to the deceased widow and Barbas' family - and that's a good thing that he was not too invested in the project on this late date because he hated the film they made from him. How bad is the film, who was the "gambler, the girl and the Gunslinger"? Dean Cain was thrown into the role of Eastwood. That bad.

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