John Wayne and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth." Wayne's other roles in Westerns include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in "Red River" (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in "The Searchers" (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in marriage in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in "True Grit" (1969). He is also remembered for his roles in "The Quiet Man" (1952), "Rio
Slightly Scarlet (1956 film) honest mayor, his secretary-mistress, her kleptomaniacal sister and the fellow who wants to get control of the gang. Critic and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was kinder to the film, placing it fifth in his list of the best films of 1956 in "Cahiers du Cinema". Slightly Scarlet (1956 film) Slightly Scarlet is a 1956 Technicolor film noir crime film based on James M. Cain's novel "Love's Lovely Counterfeit." It was directed by Allan Dwan, and its widescreen cinematography was by John Alton. The picture tells the story of Ben Grace (John Payne), a man working for a powerful metropolitan crime boss—Solly