𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐦 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 "𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞" 𝐈𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 - 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟎 Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war. Stars 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.
John Wayne did one thing that I really liked, he had a lot of fellow actors/friends that he used in a number of his movies. There are so many actors in this movie from other Wayne movies. They all work and fit in perfectly. This is a good/great western that we do not see much of today. Geoffrey Deuel as Billy the Kid was excellent and he was not a Wayne regular. He was also a bit older than the real Billy the Kid, but he was excellent in this role.