John Wayne Highlands, fierce fighters against communism, bestowed on Wayne a brass bracelet that he wore in the film and all subsequent films. Wayne finally won a Best Actor Oscar for "True Grit" (1969), two decades after his only other nomination. Wayne took on the role of the eponymous detective in the crime drama "McQ" (1974). His last film was "The Shootist" (1976), whose main character, J. B. Books, was dying of cancer—which Wayne himself succumbed to three years later. "The Shootist" (1976) contains numerous plot similarities to "The Gunfighter" of nearly thirty years before, a role which Wayne had wanted but
Midway (1976 film) (1960) (which also stars Mifune). Several action scenes, including the one where an Mitsubishi A6M Zero slams into 's bridge, were taken from "Away All Boats" (1956); scenes of Doolittle's Tokyo raid at the beginning of the film are from "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944). In addition, most dogfight sequences come from wartime gun camera footage or from the film "Battle of Britain" (1969). Cast member Henry Fonda (Admiral Nimitz) had been one of the narrators of the 1942 John Ford documentary "The Battle of Midway", some footage from which was used in the 1976 film. The only actress with