Most film fans know that UN Ford Dal Higon Wayne his big break with Stagecoach in 1939, much of the surprise of the young actor. After meeting in the 20s of the last century when Wayne worked as a prop. Wayne literally knocked out Ford) The couple will work together sporadically over the coming years, but only with the Duke of small roles. Ford actually waited for more than a decade to bring Wayne to the big leagues With "Stagecoach" and after that his acting career and life were never the same.

But that's just part of how Johnon's legend Wayne began. The actor, whose real name was Marion Robert Morrison, received support for another influential director early in his career when Raul Walsh gave him his first lead role in the "big track". This 1930s wide screen EP was designed to celebrate Oregon's centenary, and introduced Wayne as Trapper Breck Coleman, who runs a large wagon train through the track. However "The Great Trail" was mostly doomed to state -of -the -art camera technology and great depressionIt was impressive on its scale and a lot before its time in many ways. The film is shot in the then new 70mm wide screen format known as Fox's magnificence. The scenes were filmed in seven countries with more than 700 actors from indigenous Americans and five different castes for English, Spanish, Italian, French and German versions. However, perhaps most importantly, the film presented the audience with Johnon Wayne as a leading man.

Although the film failed to fulfill its sublime ambitions, due to the fact that the format of the grandiose Fox was mostly too much for the theaters to accommodate, the film was a big step in Wayne's career, especially as he waited for his other mentor, Ford, to give him a chance to use the big feature. But Walsh's contribution to Wayne's career did not end with the "big track" or even after the actor was thrown at Stagecoach.

In an interview with Real westDocumentary and journalist Richard Shikel talked about how Raul Walsh and Johnon Ford felt responsible for starting Johnon Wayne's career. "(Walsh) was very proud, as he felt - I think it was a source of dispute between he and Ford (laughs) - that he found Johnon Wayne," he said. Moreover, Znikel recalled that Walsh claims he is the one who gave Johnon Wayne his stage name. "He said he was reading a book about the American revolutionary general" crazy "Anthony Wayne, remembered Shicel." He thought Wayne would be a good name for Marion Morrison. That's how the name emerged. "

Elsewhere Wayne claims his stage name comes from executions in the studioBut the fact that Walsh wanted to get the loan at least shows how he felt for the duke. There was a sense of friendship, but also a responsibility by Walsh, who was clearly proud to have taken Wayne from the stage to the leading man. "My new leading man made a nice border," Walsh wrote in his autobiography. "His acting was instinctive, so he became what he was playing. Later, under the guidance of Foron Ford, he joined the ranks of the movie immortals. There is a lot of pride in the knowledge that I discovered a winner. Not only that. I also found a great American."

It is high praise given Walsh's standing in the industry. The man was not only a director, but a former actor, who was also a founding member of the Academy of Art and Sciences for Image (AMPAS). As such, Walsh certainly thinks that not only one of Wayne's most important associates, but also one of his most respected.

Raul Walsh was born in 1887 in New York, but had his own cowboy credentials. After his mother's death, a 15-year-old Walsh traveled through Texas to Montana, visiting Cuba before working as a cowboy in Mexico. His movie debut came to DW Griffith Controversial 1915 Silent epic "Birth of Nation" in which he played a stand at Johnon Wilks. But Walsh is much more remembered for his directorial talents. After giving his first lead role in the "Great Path", he worked for Paramont, but found more success in Warner Bros., where he directed Jameseshes Cagni and Humphrey Bogart Gangster Flick "The Roaring Twenties". "White Heat" in 1949 also starred Jameseims Cagni along with Edmond O'Brien and became one of Walsh's most famous films. He only worked with Wayne once again at the "Dark Command" in the 1940s, which paired the Duke with fellow citizens of Western icons Roy Rogers.

Somewhere between all this, Walsh found the time to co-establish the Academy of Art and Sciences, which, of course, became best known for the "Oscars". In January 1927, Metro-Golodwin-Meyer chief Luis B. Meyer gathered 36 prominent people from the banquet film industry, held at the "Separate Hotel Ambassador". There Walsh found himself in a valued company. Other directors included in the original 36 founding members were Cecil B. Demil, Henry King and M.on M. Stal along with the entire host of actors, writers, producers and much more. Unfortunately, Walsh himself would never get a nomination from the Academy that he helped himself with his career stabbed by original classics.

Not that it was important to him. At a time when Walsh was sitting in his banquet at the ambassador hotel, Wayne was still just a Fox boy. But he will soon oppose the supermitwire, not helping any small part of Walsh, who may not give his real breakthrough, but clearly saw the incredible potential in a young Marion Morrison. In the same way as the "Great Path" was before its time, then it was also Walsh in its ability to recognize the true starfish power in a modest scene.