I like to think that Widmark fans are generally nice people. It's possible that people who like him are people like him - easygoing, fairly liberal, open minded, generous ... you get the idea. But if there's a red flag for Widmark fans then it's likely to be John Wayne. If there's a red line that will divide people, that's likely to be it. We all know a bit of the history behind their acrimonious meeting on the set of The Alamo; it's practically movie legend now. Wayne's and Widmark's politics were opposite and Wayne seems to have managed to come out with statements that set off Widmark's hair-trigger temper.
And yet.
To quote Hamlet, "there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." Even with John Wayne. And I was amazed to come across this item from Listverse which I'm not going to reproduce in full here, but do go and look it up. Who knew that John Wayne invested so much in making The Alamo, and hit so many problems in doing it that a sensible man should have given up? I'd never heard of the murder, for example, or the way the unions got involved. With all that hassle, I think we can take a moment to be grateful to him, for without him going through all that, we'd never have had one of our favourite characters, Colonel Jim Bowie.
https://listverse.com/2016/03/09/10-amazing-stories-about-john-waynes-epic-failure/
And yet.
To quote Hamlet, "there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." Even with John Wayne. And I was amazed to come across this item from Listverse which I'm not going to reproduce in full here, but do go and look it up. Who knew that John Wayne invested so much in making The Alamo, and hit so many problems in doing it that a sensible man should have given up? I'd never heard of the murder, for example, or the way the unions got involved. With all that hassle, I think we can take a moment to be grateful to him, for without him going through all that, we'd never have had one of our favourite characters, Colonel Jim Bowie.
https://listverse.com/2016/03/09/10-amazing-stories-about-john-waynes-epic-failure/
