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Release Date:
29 July 1970 (USA) moreTagline:
THE HERO - John Wayne is "Chisum" morePlot:
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
A Fine Western Ahead Of Its Time more (29 total)US TV Schedule:
| Sat. Nov. 14 | 8:15 AM | AMC |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Wayne | ... | John Simpson Chisum | |
| Forrest Tucker | ... | Lawrence Murphy | |
| Christopher George | ... | Dan Nodeen | |
| Ben Johnson | ... | James Pepper | |
| Glenn Corbett | ... | Pat Garrett | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Sheriff Brady | |
| Andrew Prine | ... | Alex McSween | |
| Patric Knowles | ... | J. Henry Tunstall | |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Jess Evans | |
| Lynda Day George | ... | Sue McSween (as Lynda Day) | |
| Geoffrey Deuel | ... | Billy 'The Kid' Bonney | |
| Pamela McMyler | ... | Sallie Chisum | |
| John Agar | ... | Amos Patton | |
| Lloyd Battista | ... | Neemo | |
| Robert Donner | ... | Bradley Morton - Deputy sheriff |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
111 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoCertification:
UK:PG | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-11 (new rating: 2001) | Finland:K-12 (original rating) | France:U | Finland:K-12 | Norway:16 (theatrical rating: 1970) | USA:GFun Stuff
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The Zoom in and zoom out sequences of Chisum sitting on his horse on the hillside at the beginning and end of the movie are the same footage. The original shot was the zoom out used at the end. That was reversed to produce the zoom in used at the beginning. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the gunfight at the store/bank, when the scene changes from nighttime to daylight two curtains on the outside of the store change lengths. moreQuotes:
Sheriff Brady: He's deader than a can of corned beef. You just had to kill him, huh?Dan Nodeen: A whole lot less trouble that way.
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Ballad of John Chisum moreFAQ
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Although a few notches below classic Wayne westerns like "Stagecoach" and "Rio Bravo," this film was a masterful return to form for Wayne. This was the first film Wayne did after gaining weight and donning an eye-patch for his work on "True Grit." In this film, Wayne plays an honest, straight talking man of action, not too different from the type character on which he built his career. The supporting characters are very well drawn and the villains resourceful enough to keep the action moving. In a way, this character, though based on an actual rancher, is similar to the character of Dunson in the superior "Red River." Both characters gambled on a long cattle drive from Texas and although "Red River" is about the drive itself, "Chisum" is about what happens to a similar character twenty years after the drive succeeds. At the time the film was released, at least one critic commented on how improbable it was for John Wayne, at the climax of the movie, to have done that much riding, fighting and falling all within the same sequence. As far as I am concerned, that sequence helped prepare me for later action sequences of 1980's action stars like Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and action directors like James Cameron and John Woo. The film is no "Red River" but it is fine western nonetheless.