Details

Release year: 1973

Storyline

A tough Marshal has a difficult task when his two sons join a gang and rob a bank.

Top credits

Directors

Andrew V. McLaglen

Writers

Cast

John Wayne — Marshal J.D. Cahill
George Kennedy — Fraser
Gary Grimes — Danny Cahill
Neville Brand — Lightfoot

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Did you know

• John Wayne was sixty-five years old at the time the movie was filmed. He had had a cancerous lung removed in 1964, and was suffering from emphysema in his remaining lung. Wayne was so weakened that he had to use a stepladder to climb onto his horse in the film. In addition to his own declining health, news that his friend and mentor, John Ford, was dying of cancer forced the actor to consider his own mortality. After Ford's death in August, 1973, Wayne told reporters, "I'm pretty much living on borrowed time."

• John Wayne privately admitted he felt he gave up caring about the film halfway through filming when he learned that retired director John Ford had terminal cancer.

• Most of the scenes showing John Wayne riding from a distance were filmed with stuntman Chuck Roberson substituting for Wayne. Roberson also appears briefly as the leader of the posse.