But it wasn’t always this way.

The movie in question?The Big Trail.

Here’s what happened.

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Flack had killed Coleman’s old friend, and now he wants to see justice done.

One of Hollywood’s great icons is something of an underrated actor.

As theBBConce noted, “The Big Trailwas artistically ambitious but flopped at the box office.”

Tyrone Power as Red Flack faces off against John Wayne as Breck Coleman over a frightened Marguerite Churchill as Ruth Cameron in The Big Trail (1930)

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As a result, Wayne’s sudden rise to fame quickly plummeted.

Though, his luck eventually changed.

Okay, it’s notStagecoachorThe Searchers, but it is certainly one ofthe Duke’s most underrated roles.

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The Big Trailis available to rent on Prime Video in the U.S.

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Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

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