The two 1959 movies that convinced John Wayne America was doomed: “Our country’s going soft”If he’d gotten his way, then not just Hollywood, but the entirety of America would be a reflection of the way John Wayne wanted it to be, but even a star of his magnitude can’t perform miracles. He could try, and he did, but the inevitable winds of change blow too strongly for any man, even ‘The Duke’. I happen to believe our country’s going soft; we’re allowing machines to run it, not men; the federal government to run it instead of local governments.” Which films could be so egregious as to send ‘The Duke’ off into a tangent about the fate of his beloved America? Joseph L Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer, and Robert Rossen’s They Came to Cordura, apparently.