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While I'm not really a fan of Wayne, his body of work is pretty diverse. The whole persona was created by the classic hollywood director Raoul Walsh.

If we were to pick one film (of which there are so many other John Ford films more deserving of our attention, especially the cynicism and disillusionment of the American Dream in his late career films) that matches what the poster was probably referring to, it's the Searchers.

While a problematic film (and basically remade as Taxi Driver) Wayne's character is a vigilante but not a part of the community. His character is a racist psychopath. And while he does return the daughter to her family, he is forever doomed to wander similarly to the dead indigenous whose eyes he shoots out to deny them a proper afterlife.