Michael John Petty is a Senior Features Writer for Collider who loves to spend his days writing, in fellowship with his church, and enjoying everyday life with his wife and daughter.
The Big Picture It's kind of strange to think that Western icon John Wayne and Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford had overlapping careers. Ford began his road to stardom in the mid-1960s around the same time that the Duke starred in pictures like McLintock! and El Dorado, but didn't receive much notoriety until the late-1970s with Star Wars. By then, Wayne's career was winding down, and the Duke eventually left Hollywood behind.
"Legendary actor John Wayne was approached and showed interest in the film," wrote Brad Duke in his biography Harrison Ford: The Films, though apparently not before Harrison Ford was first considered. Evidently, it was director Robert Aldrich who suggested Wayne as an option, reported Gene Wilder in his own autobiography Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art. "Are you kidding?" Wilder said.
But not everything was wonderful on the set of The Frisco Kid. In fact, there was some unspoken animosity towards Ford by some of the crew, particularly director Robert Aldrich. "Ford had felt as if he was always in competition with Wayne," Brad Duke explained in Harrison Ford: The Films. "Although Ford had played a plethora of cowboy roles during his episodic television years, his director jokingly harassed him with constant comparisons as to how Wayne would have done it.
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