Kirk Douglas Doesn't See Eye-To-Eye With John Wayne | The Dick Cavett Show

we're talking during the break about I mentioned you broke your nose earlier and during the break I asked you how it was by a horse broke it for you well I was doing a horse fall you're talking about you know in Europe with European films very often they don't do a horse fall it's dangerous for the horse but you know I'm sure that it's over there oh it's yeah very often serious the United States a horse is trained to fall and I was doing a picture called Indian fighters about if that's the first movie I did with my company Brian and the first time Walter Matthau worked in the picture and I was training I was falling a horse in the picture and the signal to fall the horse was to pull it very different horses to pull one rein so you pull a horse's head around and he falls and then you get the dangers you've got to get this leg out of the way you see because so when the horse Falls you get this leg out when you fall down with it this yeah you can't fall but one time I am falling the horse I leaned over and when the horse's head went around bang Oh broken nose and push your nose into your no light into your face it's still a little crooked yeah I hate to keep you know pointing out these imperfections because you've been so good at pointing them out for me but well add to these imperfection but I do have a crooked nose it's right but people like to know that you're human and I think that's terrific about the Hickory Apaches I can't get over that financing the movie I don't think they'd finance a John Wayne movie though if they read his playboy interview did you see that he said he didn't think that it was bad that we took this country away from the Indians because a lot of people needed land and the Indians were being selfish and thought that they ought to have it and is that the John Wayne you know movie no as a matter of fact I don't want to get involved in a conversation on John Wayne oh I tell you I've made quite a closer to his size I am so good here no I I've made quite a few pictures with John Wayne and by the way I've always called him John everybody calls him Duke yeah I have never we have never seen eye-to-eye and a lot of things but professionally yeah I think he's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with oh yeah and I've worked I don't know about four or five pictures with him the last one I did was war wagon we worked in harm's way and cast a giant shadow which was a picture done in Israel Wayne was the one who set it up Wayne is the one who called me in London hey Kirk I think there's a part you ought to play so we have never whenever we work in a picture we rarely maybe we'll have dinner together one night during the whole picture but we get along very well we never discussed politics politics best effect yeah that's right but he's the first guy on the set he's the hardest worker I've ever worked with and I think he's quite a character as a matter of fact I just saw a picture of his Big Jake which were coming out soon and it's it's it's a really good John Wayne picture he really is a giant personality yes he is I mean has he been hurt by a horse would a horse dare hurt yeah well I think he'd heard a horse probably they really can't get a horse big enough for him how big is John Wayne I'm interested in dimensions uh I'd say John's about six foot four he is that John oh yeah yeah well sure no wonder you don't see eye to eye there I am marking on your size again you made a Jules Verne film that I've heard about for some time and I don't I don't mean 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea there back to the edge of the world is that a fact that's coming out it's coming out it opened in Washington is coming out soon in this area and in the matter of fact the reason I did it was because of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea I always wanted to do another Jules Verne pictures let a good Steffen Julesburg yeah you asked if they could get a little clip from that do we have we have a little bit of yeah I think they put together some things from a trailer I haven't seen but I'll be glad to [Applause] [Music] wait a minute we saw a horse with a horn and then you running I was being pursued that was a scene you will plays this game where he has this sharp like a unicorn on the horse where he tries to run me down that light at the edge of the world again is an example of the different ways of making movies we've talked about the Indian tribe financing one this was financed by a Spanish a Spanish bank and we shot this this was all shot in in Spain frankly I could little tired of going to you know far-off places to make movies you know and get away from my family I prefer to be making more movies here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: The Dick Cavett Show

Views: 1,503,248

Rating: 4.74789 out of 5

Keywords: 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, United States, USA, john wayne, kirk douglas, kirk douglas and john wayne, john wayne politics, john wayne actor, western movies, john wayne movies, kirk douglas movies, kirk douglas interview, kirk douglas dick cavett, full interview, dick cavett interview, the dick cavett show, john wayne height, classic interview, The War Wagon, In Harms Way, Cinema Paradiso, Cast a Giant Shadow

Id: JscInCk56YY

Length: 5min 3sec (303 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 04 2019

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I watched this and wondered when Kirk Douglas died....

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HE'S STILL ALIVE!

He's 102!

[u/TheSingulatarian]

Shout factory recently put up a lot of the old Dick Cavett shows on the Tube site. They are a gold mine of old interviews.

[u/jereezy]

Dick Cavett was a great interviewer, he was just a little before my time.

[u/nakedsamurai]

Wayne also said he believed in white supremacy because he didn't think blacks were educated or responsible enough to be given any power.