THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER ('65) stars John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Martha Hyer. The movie marked the return of Wayne after he had a cancerous lung and two ribs removed. ❤️‍🩹 Martin said of Wayne, "Someone else would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn't know how to be sick. He's recuperating the hard way...Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, 'Oh, there goes Perry Como.' But there's only one John Wayne, and nobody makes any mistakes about that".