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The Fighting Kentuckian was one of only four films in which John Wayne wore a buckskin suit with a coonskin cap, the others being the 1930 widescreen epic The Big Trail (in the Grand Canyon sequence shot on location), Allegheny Uprising (1939) and as Davy Crockett in the concluding battle footage in The Alamo (1960).
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
An urban legend has it that in 1955, Wayne turned down the role of Matt Dillon in the long-running television series Gunsmoke and recommended James Arness, instead. While he did suggest Arness for the part and introduced him in a prologue to the first episode, no film star of Wayne's stature would have considered a television role at the time.
The legend of Bunny Man is ripe for a horror movie retelling. There are a few different stories that surround the Bunny Man lore, but they all have one thing in common: Bunny Man is out for blood.
Phi Yai Wan is an urban legend about the ghost of a pregnant woman similar to renowned Mae Nak Phra Khanong, but her story takes place in Taling Chan in the 1970s. [78] Pigman Road is an urban legend of a butcher from Angola, New York who would place the heads of pigs on stakes in front of his home on Holland Road to ward off trespassers ...
The Pope Lick Monster (more commonly, colloquially, the Goat Man) is a legendary part-man, part-goat [1] and part-sheep [2] creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. [2] [3]
The Kentucky Derby is one of the most iconic events and horse races on the calendar. The first leg of the Triple Crown occurs annually on the first Saturday in May, when thousands of people flock ...
Goatman or Goat man may refer to: . Goatman (urban legend), a legendary creature from Prince George's County, Maryland, United States Goatman (Kentucky), also known as the Pope Lick Monster, a legendary creature of Louisville, Kentucky, United States