With so many excellent films in The Duke's arsenal, this Western heist is often overlooked.
John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and a bunch of nitroglycerine in a Western heist movie – what’s not to love? In The War Wagon, Wayne and Douglas plan to rob the eponymous war wagon carrying $500,000 in gold and avoid a Gatling gun while they do it. While the Burt Kennedy caper is full of humor and action, and some great lines, it doesn’t seem to have much of a footprint in the cultural landscape.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT In The War Wagon, John Wayne plays Taw Jackson, a rancher that was framed for a crime and swindled out of his property and the gold beneath it by his rival Frank Pierce . Out on parole after three years, Jackson hatches a plan to get back his property by robbing Pierce’s upcoming gold shipment worth half a million dollars with the help of Lomax – the man Pierce has hired to kill him.
‘The War Wagon’ Features an All-Time Great Bar Brawl The bar brawl is a core feature of many Westerns, and The War Wagon features one of the best. Sometimes the action can lean too far into humor or be completely devoid of it, but this particular brawl straddles the line perfectly. There are broken bottles, broken chairs, broken windows, and a piano used as a weapon. The gag of someone walking into the saloon only to get punched in the face immediately is well-deployed.
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