Tha Duke

I'm watching Rio Bravo and while most of the adjectives commonly ascribed to John Wayne have differing levels of accuracy - iconic, archetypal, masculine, black-lister, misogynist, really big - there is one that is perfectly accurate. The man was cool!

And so's this movie. I've heard it referred to as the archetypal buddy moive, the archetypal siege movie (tho would Zulu have a claim to that? It did come out 5 years later) and the archetypal action movie and it is interesting to see all the things we take for granted in action movies nowadays in this one from nigh on fifty years ago. Comic relief characters, snappy one-liners and some threatening dialogue and scenery chewing that would make Arnold or Chuck jealous.