Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Neil Welch Squillionaire rancher and land baron John Chisum comes up against crooked and murderous business magnate Lawrence Murphy. Chisum is a hard nut, too, and no prizes for guessing who prevails in this highly inaccurate retelling of the Lincoln County range wars.One of John Wayne's last few westerns, directed by Victor Maclaglen's son Andrew (who usually turned out reliably entertaining cowboy fare) this one is full of action, colourful, long, and pretty much done by numbers. Many familiar faces from westerns of the day pop up in this absolutely bog-standard John Wayne oater.What else can I say? Not much. Wayne's stunt double in the final film is hilariously obvious, and the theme song is perfectly dreadful.Enjoy.

JLRVancouver A typical star-driven late 60's Hollywood-oater, "Chisum" was entertaining but it's easy to see the rising appeal of grittier, harder Westerns like 1969's "The Wild Bunch" (a film reportedly disliked by John Wayne). Other than the iconic Wayne as the titular character and the always great Ben Johnson as his muttering sidekick, most of the cast looked like Hollywood actors and actresses playing at 'old-west' – hairstyles seemed anachronistic, women had tight fitting dresses, everyone had perfect teeth etc. Billy the Kid was portrayed as a pretty nice guy with his on-screen killings always justified (at least by him) and lots of references to him learning to read, do sums etc., and again, his mentor Tunstall is portrayed as an older British father-figure (he was actually less than 10 years older that The Kid). After watching John Wayne play a lot of 'larger-than-life' heroes like John Chisum, it's not surprising that some people were surprised by his actual acting ability when he finally played a more complex and ambivalent character in "True Grit". What I most disliked about "Chisum" was the music, especially the clichéd opening Ballad of John Chisum and the intrusive "Sally" song. All-in-all, an OK old-school western from an era when the genre was moving away from white hats vs. black hats story lines to more realistic (at least as realistic as a highly-fictionalised era can be), dirtier, and bloodier films.

vorkapich "No matter where people go, the law follows, and no matter where people go, they find God has been there first." Thus utters The Duke in the title role of this typical product of John Wayne's waning years. He utters this after a considerable body count has accumulated in the course of recounting some of the events of the Lincoln County War in New Mexico in the 1870s. God was passive as all that corruption and killing, including some who were unarmed, was going on. Mysterious ways...The Chisum depicted here is the Wayne character that developed in the decade after Rio Bravo put him back in the saddle after excursions into non-Westerns: tough but fair; ready to do what it takes to make things right, i.e. be extremely violent; amiable but something of a loner (too many personal connections might compromise one at some point). Wayne wears the same togs he wore in all his Westerns from this period: vest, red or blue shirt, bandanna, high-crowned Stetson. He was already enshrined as the personification of the Old West, or the Old West by way of Hollywood. Next stop, Madame Tussaud's.The screenplay actually has some details here and there that are supported by the history of the events, but this is mostly a warped and inflated version of the story. For instance, in this telling, Billy the Kid rides into town, big as you please, shoots Sheriff Brady in front of Chisum and co., then rides out without anyone so much as reaching for their six-shooter. In the actual incident, Billy the Kid (aka Henry McCarty) and his accomplices ambushed Sheriff Brady, a much wiser tactic. McCarty was wounded in the thigh when he broke cover to retrieve something (a warrant or a rifle) from Brady's body. The height of the ludicrous is reached, fittingly, at the film's climax, the shootout at McSween's store. A slew of bad guys are slain, even though they are barely visible (there were perhaps a half dozen casualties on both sides in the actual confrontation) and the whole shebang is wrapped up when The Duke and his boys come with guns blazing amid a herd of stampeding cattle. The Duke then dukes it out with the Murphy character (Forrest Tucker); they both fall from a balcony and Murphy is...impaled on steer horns. Wow! The real Chisum was a couple of days ride away on his ranch when that action was taking place in Lincoln. In fact, Chisum himself never fired a shot in the Lincoln County War. Murphy was ill with cancer by time the conflict in Lincoln County reached a fever pitch; he died a few months after the Battle of Lincoln.This is simply an excuse to make another Wayne Western, and dress it up as Something That Really Happened. The efficient director, Andrew McLaglen, assembled a passel of familiar faces — Forrest Tucker, Bruce Cabot, Ben Johnson, Christopher George (he had been a bad guy in El Dorado), Richard Jaeckel, all of whom could be depended on to give unsurprising performances. Wayne's house cinematographer (he did 21 films for Wayne's Batjac production company), William Clothier, keeps things in focus and the contrasts in the bright sunlight of the Durango, Mexico and other Southwestern locations well-balanced. The whole thing is a product of pros in the process of "keeping on", as the lyrics of the film's song say, without any urge to do much more.Filming was done in the late fall, which must have made for a nice working vacation for all involved.

cricket crockett . . . as in, "What would John Wayne do?" During CHISUM, Mr. Wayne joins forces with Billy the Kid to gun down countless corrupt sheriffs and deputies. No doubt many of these deputies think that they "were just following orders." But as hundreds of low-level Nazis hung for War Crimes after World War Two discovered as they were dangling from their nooses, this excuse of "I was just following orders" does NOT cut it when push comes to shove. How is CHISUM relevant to we Americans of the 21st Century Now? In a nut shell, 46% of U.S. voters have violated their Constitutional Oath NOT to elect Satan as America's President. First off, they voted for a self-proclaimed finger rapist of American Womanhood. Try to channel Mr. Wayne's (or Chisum's) reaction to the ACCESS H0LLYWOOD taped confession, or his response if Mr. T's tiny little digits had sneakily penetrated his niece Sallie's most personal part. Can't you just hear him muttering "You make me sick, Donald" in that disgusted guttural tone he had (assuming that he did not resort to immediate "Frontier Justice")? At the very least, CHISUM Justice calls for any known Trump supporters to spend the rest of their lives on their state's Sex Offender Registry, because American Law always has equated conspiracy to condone or facilitate a crime with actually committing that offense yourself, with an equivalent penalty being imposed on you.Perhaps the next biggest Reveal from last month's fiasco is that Communist Russia has been propping up the National Rifle Association financially for at least a decade, funneling in countless rubles for their pro-Trump political ads. Exit polls show that election loser Trump got 91% of the vote from card-carrying NRA dupes. If America ever gets back to her normal self, the NRA MUST be outlawed as a terrorist organization.Finally, Trump's appointment today of KGB chief Vlad "The Impaler" Putin's top Fifth Column Agent in America as U.S. Secretary of State--4th in line to the Presidency--after the previous Administration had Nixed this clown's plot to double what we pay at the gas pumps by merging his Exxon Company with Putin's Oligarch Oil Concern essentially welds America onto Russia's Rump as a Puppet Regime. Heroic Anti-Communist fighter Wayne would not have tolerated this sad situation for a New York Minute, nor would have Chisum or his buddy, Billy the Kid. They would have had the sense to go after ANY Trump supporter, given the fact that 24 U.S. intelligence agencies announced their agreement that the Trump Campaign was micro-managed, financed, and controlled by Putin and his Red Communist Henchmen in Russia BEFORE anyone voted. The U.S. military especially must be PURGED of the 226 generals and admirals Trump has claimed as supporters, and the rest of the Oath Takers there who have sworn to "fight to preserve and defend the U.S. Constitution" MUST be put on Trial for High Treason as soon as things get back to normal. John Wayne and his buddy Billy the Kid have NO qualms about killing as many corrupt so-called law enforcement people to make things right in CHISUM. If they had to waste a couple million Ring Leaders who duped a minority of 50 million some Fellow Travelers to Vote Trump, they would view the necessity for undertaking such a task--no matter how daunting--as a No-Brainer. America sometimes can show a little Mercy (though NOT toward a Baby Killer such as Tim McVeigh). As long as the weapons and assets of the weak-minded sheep who blindly danced to the tune of Trump's Pied Piper are promptly surrendered, there may not be a need to thin their suspect gene pool by liquidating them. We are NOT Nazi Germany. But we cannot afford to stay Putin's Amerika for very long, since inertia loves company. Again, ask yourself WWJD--What Would John Do?--and contribute to your local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps) Today!