Griffith decided to invest his own money to turn Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman into a two and half In 1915, frustrated by his bosses' unwillingness to let him make a feature-length film, Biograph Studios Director D.W. Controversial movies have been around since the beginning of the industry. Wayne publicly thanked the East Coast reviewers who hated the movie for bringing it more attention, and laughed all the way to the bank.
Upon its release many critics who opposed the war called The Green Berets vile and boring, but to their great distress it was a huge box office success. It took all of Wayne's persuasive abilities to get Jack Warner to distribute the film. The Green Berets production problems ranged from a lack of cooperation from the Pentagon to battle scenes repeatedly being ruined when twirling helicopter blades blew the sixty-one year old actor's toupee off. Wayne, who never served in the military, hated being called a hero by the press while the young soldiers he visited in Vietnam were accused of being murderers.
Eight years before the Cowboy Star had taken a financial bath while producing The Alamo (1960), he considered The Green Berets an appropriate freedom-fighting sequel. In 1968 John Wayne decided to counter Vietnam War protests by turning The Green Berets, a collection of short stories by author Robin Moore about the superhero like exploits of the US Army Special Forces into a movie. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004) and Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ (2004) continued a long line of controversial films.
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