Surprisingly, the best movie they made together didn’t even manage to achieve that.
But this award was too little and too late to right the wrongs done toThe Searchers.
The movie ought to have been seen asthe crowning achievement of Ford and Waynes collaboration.
John Wayne had an extensive career in Hollywood, but some of his Westerns were better than others.
Ford and Winton C. Hoch should have won Oscars for their direction and cinematography, respectively.
The fact that neither were even nominated isone of the most shocking Oscars oversights of Hollywoods Golden Age.
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Vera Miles also gives a career-best performance as the stoic farmers daughter Laurie Jorgensen.
Both she and the Duke should have been rewarded with nominations by the Academy.
It was the first movie to be funded by upstart business executive C. V. Whitneys production company.
There’s also the matter of the stiff competition it faced at the time.
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