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King of the Pecos (Republic, 1936)

  Second-feature cattle baron   King of the Pecos dates from the period when John Wayne, who had flirted with stardom in Fox’s wagon-train epic The Big Trail when he was chosen by director Raoul Walsh to replace an otherwise-occupied Gary Cooper, was re-consigned, after the commercial failure of that picture (it cost a fortune […]