John Wayne’s superb kindness at 3am after attending Chisum premiere | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Chisum, which is on ITV4 this afternoon, was John Wayne’s first film of the Seventies, which might even be the Western legend’s ultimate decade.

The movie was primarily based on the Lincoln County War of 1878 with Duke starring as John Simpson Chisum, a rich cattle baron of the American West.

The 62-year-old actor was taking part in a 54-year-old man, so needed to exit of his option to disguise his advancing age, having beauty surgical procedure in September 1969 – a month earlier than filming started.

As normal, Wayne wore his hairpiece and had make-up utilized to look younger than he was.

Meanwhile, Patric Knowles, who performed Henry Tunstall, was labelled because the older man within the film, though at 58 he was 4 years youthful than Duke.

As was the case in his later movies, Wayne had a stunt double and ended up being left very disillusioned by the top of the film.

It turned out it was actually apparent it wasn’t him as Chism within the ultimate combat scene between his character and Forrest Tucker’s Lawrence Murphy.

Despite this disappointment, after the movie’s Dallas premiere, Duke went out of his option to present unbelievable kindness to sick youngster followers.

According to the John Wayne property: “Did you know? One writer tells of the night he and Duke were in Dallas for the premiere of Chisum.

“Returning late to his hotel, Duke found a message from a woman who said her little girl lay critically ill in a local hospital. The woman wrote, ‘It would mean so much to her if you could pay her just a brief visit.’

“At 3 o’clock in the morning he took off for the hospital where he visited the astonished child and every other patient on the hospital floor who happened to be awake.”