"Badlands" was a film based on the Starkweather-Fugate murders that took place in the fifties in the Dakotas. "Companeros" was a 1970 Sergio Corbucci Western starring Franco Nero. Wayne's last film was The Shootist (1976), in which he played a legendary gunslinger dying of cancer.
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What 1970 film starred John Wayne?
Rio Lobo is a 1970 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, from a screenplay by Burton Wohl and Leigh Brackett.
What was the last movie John Wayne ever made?
Wayne's final film, The Shootist (1976), in which he portrays an aging gunfighter who is dying of cancer, was praised by many as his best western since Rio Bravo. This role was a poignant screen farewell for an actor who himself would succumb to cancer three years later.
What caused John Wayne's death?
Stomach cancer
Wayne made his last public appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979, and died of stomach cancer two months later. In 1980, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States.
What is considered John Wayne's best movie?

John Wayne's five greatest film performances

True Grit (1969) In this adaptation of Charles Portis's eponymous novel, John Wayne as US Marshal Rooster Cogburn is hired by a young girl to apprehend her father's murderer. ...
Stagecoach (1939) ...
Rio Bravo (1959) ...
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) ...
The Searchers (1956)
During the 1960s and 1970s, Wayne starred in more Westerns, such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and True Grit (1969), in ...
John Wayne and Marguerite Churchill in The Big Trail (1930) · John Wayne and Laura La Plante in Arizona (1931) · Susan Fleming and Buck Jones in The Range Feud ( ...
Actor ; Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, John Wayne, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Sheree. The Shootist. 7.6 ; Rooster Cogburn (1975). Rooster Cogburn. 6.8 ; Brannigan ( ...
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Mar 6, 2008 · Some of his films from this period are ok. "The Shootist" is by far the best. "Big Jake" is pretty good. I've never really had the problem you ...
1950s ; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), ; The Quiet Man (1952), and ; The Wings of Eagles (1957). The first movie in which he called someone "Pilgrim", Ford's ...
Film highlights of the decade were Big Jake (1971) and The Cowboys (1972), which today are often cited as favorites among Wayne fans. “He was kind, positive and ...
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