If Westerns were ailing heading into the '80s, the arrival of Heaven's Gate all ... follow-up to the acclaimed The Deer Hunter, with the movie taking place during the Johnson County War, as ...

and he had appeared in over 80 Western movies since his breakout role in 1939's Stagecoach. Stagecoach was one of the movies that defined John Wayne's career, and Wayne played the sharpshooting ...