John Wayne film "Rio Grande" with 1880's Cavalry and Peace Dollars

These pictures are from the 1950 Republic Pictures film "Rio Grande", directed by John Ford, which stars John Wayne as a US Army Cavalry officer commanding an outpost in the 1880's American Southwest.
Maureen O'Hara plays his wife, who has not lived with him for a long time.
She comes out west to visit their son who has enlisted in the Cavalry.
Their breakup occured during the Civil War when John, a Union officer, burned down Southerner Maureen's family plantation.


Maureen throws some silver coins on the table as "change"
They include some Peace dollars and Walking Liberty half dollars.
The Peace dollar was made from 1921 to 1935, the Liberty half from 1916 to 1947.


John Wayne hands Maureen O'Hara a Confederate 10 dollar bill

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In the old days, people paid to watch a movie once and it went by and you couldn't stop it. Now, however,...

Cool site, Brian! I added it to my favorites.

 

Don't forget the "$50 Gold Pieces" that appeared in Rio Bravo.

Rio Bravo $50 Gold Pieces

 

Willie, 50 years ago John Ford never dreamed that someone would be putting his film under a microscope.......

 

I should probably point out that the Peace dollar was immediately obvious when I watched
the DVD and would have stood out even more on a theatre screen.

 

Great stuff. Nobody ever accused Hollywood of being accurate.

 

"The Green Berets".......'nuff said.