Chisum (1970)

Storyline

As one of the founders of the town of Lincoln, John Chisum is increasingly worried as Lawrence Murphy moves in on the local stores, bank and land by questionable means. Chisum and fellow honest ranch owner Henry Tunstall try and use the law, but Murphy owns that too. Confrontation threatens and Tunstall’s man Billy Bonney is not slow to get involved. Chisum, the 1970 Andrew V. McLaglen cowboy western (‘The Legend’; ‘The Hero The Man The Winner The Western’; ‘The biggest man around when the biggest man was needed.’) starring John Wayne (in the title role as John Simpson Chisum), Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett (as Pat Garrett), Patric Knowles, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel, Lynda Day, Geoffrey Deuel (as Billy ‘The Kid’ Bonney), and Pamela McMyler (Deuel and McMyler are billed as ‘introducing Geoffrey Deuel, and Pamela McMyler’)