John Wayne and Robert Montgomery in They Were Expendable
The Big Picture No relationship demonstrates the power of a prolific director-actor pair more than John Ford and John Wayne. Together, they made 14 feature films, most of which were Westerns, but each grappled with American mythos. Unfairly maligned as superficially jingoistic, Ford and Wayne poignantly reflected on the nation's history and its uncompromising implications on its future.
Release Date December 31, 1945 Director John Ford , Robert Montgomery Cast Robert Montgomery , John Wayne , Donna Reed , Jack Holt , Ward Bond , Marshall Thompson , Paul Langton , Leon Ames Runtime 135 Minutes John Ford's Roughneck Persona and Veteran Background Contrasts With His Sentimental Films At the prime of his career, with classics such as Young Mr.
John Ford Caused John Wayne to Walk Off the Set of 'They Were Expendable' Say what you want about Ford's notoriously cantankerous behavior, he wasn't afraid to punch up. Ford mercilessly disparaged John Wayne's acting abilities, from the way he walked to his speech patterns, once even calling him an "idiot." From their first collaboration in 1939, Stagecoach, to their last in 1963, Donovan's Reef, they were consistently contentious, yet always reverential.
Ford resented Wayne for avoiding military service and vented his frustration through public acts of humiliation. In one scene, Montgomery and Wayne's characters salute an admiral as he drives away, with their backs facing the camera.
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