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John Wayne is one of the famous movie stars of all time, ... Though Wayne's gun-toting hero, Thornton, is a highlight, it's Mitchum's drunken Sheriff Harrah that steals the show.

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John Wayne. Getting his start in B-movies in the 1930s, Wayne ...