John Wayne...on Ice? The Hollywood Hockey Movie He'd Probably Like You to Forget

John Wayne is most renowned, and rightfully so, for his work in Westerns, but he did work outside the genre as well. Films like The Quiet Man, Brannigan, and The Long Voyage Home, cited by Collider as the best non-Western John Wayne movie, proved there was more to Wayne than a Stetson on his head and a pistol at his side. But what if the Duke traded in that ten-gallon hat for a hockey helmet, his dusty boots for ice skates, and his gun for a hockey stick? I know what you're saying—"John Wayne playing hockey? Right."—but in 1937's Idol of the Crowds, he did just that.