3 Godfathers 1948  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Three Godfathers
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Jane Darwell, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick, Guy Kibbee, Dorothy Ford, Charles Halton, Hank Worden, Jack Pennick, Fred Libby, Michael Dugan
Three outlaws, Robert Marmaduke Hightower, Pedro "Pete" Roca Fuente, and William Kearney "the Abilene Kid" (John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, and Harry Carey Jr.), become godfathers to an orphaned baby. When two of them die, the remaining guardian, Hightower, undergoes a spiritual change and cares for the baby.
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 The Alamo 1960  N/R, 161 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Drama / Adventure
Director: John Wayne
Cast: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Joan O'Brien, Joseph Calleia, Carlos Arruza, Veda Ann Borg, John Dierkes
John Wayne directed and starred (as Davy Crockett) in this major production about the famous battle of Texas' independence in 1836 against an attack by the Mexican army at a small fort near San Antonio. Great musical score by Dimitri Tiomkin, and the final attack is a real spectacle. Several Oscar nominations were received with one winner: Best Sound. Nominations included Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Chill Wills). 1 User Review
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| | Mt. Everest of western epics | crocketteer 02/22/2008 | Mighty and glorious in the old style of vast Hollywood epics, directed by the Paul Bunyan of the genre himself, John "Duke" Wayne.
After being schooled by master directors Walsh, Wellman, Hathaway, De Mille, Von Sternberg, Hawks and Ford - the actor put his self on the line, by producing and directing, as well as heading the cast - to release the immortal story of the doomed patriots, awaiting reinforcements that never came, as they battled the Army of Mexico and meglomaniacal dictator Santa Anna.
Though padded out with unneccesary subplots and occasional historical inaccuracies - it rises to the levels of greatness with a heartfelt soundtrack, sumptous cinematography, and vivid battle action that ranks among the best, in historic recreations. Later versions of the story - lack the folkloric essence of Manifest Destiny, that Wayne infused in his version. Mocked upon its release, it has been justly rewarded with continuous sales in the VHS / DVD market worldwide, and is now getting the respect it deserves.
Recent remake of story is morose and lacking in spirit and vigor. Though Wayne's panoramic release was never made for tiny TV screens, it is getting it's due - when seen on a large plasma screen - and eventually will be given the DVD release it deserves. Ghost riders of the West salute you, John Wayne. |
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Allegheny Uprising 1939  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy, Chill Wills, Wilfrid Lawson, Robert Barrat, Moroni Olsen, Ian Wolfe, Eddie Quillan
Set in Ohio before the Revolutionary War, this is the story of Jim Smith (John Wayne), a colonial leader who falls in love with Janie (Claire Trevor)–all the while attacking Indians and British profiteers.
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Angel and the Badman 1947 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Romance / Western
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Irene Rich, Bruce Cabot, Lee Dixon, Stephen Grant, Tom Powers, Olin Howland, Paul Hurst, Craig Woods, John Halloran, Kenne Duncan, Joan Barton, Marshall Reed
In this John Wayne movie, he plays wounded gunslinger Quirt Evans who becomes the patient in a family of Quakers. The daughter, Penelope Worth (Gail Russell), of the house falls for him and tries to keep him from going after his enemy Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot) who had murdered his foster father. Over time, Quirt changes his ways and begins life anew with Penelope.
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Baby Face 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Margaret Lindsay, Douglass Dumbrille, John Wayne, Arthur Hohl, Robert Barrat, Nat Pendleton
Lily (Barbara Stanwyck), a.k.a. "Baby Face", is a beautiful woman who uses sex in exchange for financial gain and uses her unique charms to attain security.
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Back to Bataan 1945 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Paul Fix, Lawrence Tierney, John Miljan, Ray Teal, Alex Havier, "Ducky" Louie, Leonard Strong, Abner Biberman, Vladimir Sokoloff
In this World War II action film, General MacArthur has left the Philippines, and Colonel Madden (John Wayne) remains behind to organize native Filipinos into a guerilla force in preparation for ousting the Japanese from the Philippines. Madden's second in command, Captain Andres Bonifacio (Anthony Quinn), falls in love with resistance liaison Dolici Dalgado (Fely Franquelli) while inspiring the guerillas to organize against the Japanese and tries to emulate his hero father's reputation.
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Big Jim McLain 1952  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier, Hans Conried, Veda Ann Borg, Sarah Padden, Paul Hurst, Hal Baylor, John Hubbard
House Un-American Activities investigators, Big Jim McLain (John Wayne) and Mal Baxter (James Arness), travel to Hawaii to investigate a possible Communist espionage plot.
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The Big Stampede 1932 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Tenny Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Noah Beery, Mae Madison, Luis Alberni, Berton Churchill, Paul Hurst, Sherwood Bailey, Lafe McKee, Joseph W. Girard, Frank Ellis, Hank Bell
New Mexico Territory Governor Lew Wallace (Berton Churchill) sends Deputy Sheriff John Steele (John Wayne) into the range lands to stop cattle rustling and help colonize the territory. Steele deputizes rustler Sonora Joe (Louis Alberni) along with his gang, and they assist in bringing justice to cattle rustler/land baron Sam Crew (Noah Beery).
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 The Big Trail 1930 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Western / Adventure / Romance
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr., Ward Bond, Helen Parrish, Frederick Burton, Ian Keith, Charles Stevens, Louise Carver, Iron Eyes Cody, David Rollins, DeWitt Jennings, William V. Mong
In John Wayne's first starring role, he plays Brick Coleman who guides a wagon train pioneering the Oregon Trail. Along the trek, the wagon train confronts desert heat, steep cliffs, a fierce storm, an Indian attack, and swollen rivers. Brick fearlessly leads the wagons while still finding time to romance Ruth Cameron (Marguerite Churchill)–despite competition from gambler Bill Thorpe (Ian Keith) and villain Red Flack (Tyrone Power Sr.).
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Blood Alley 1955  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim, Berry Kroeger, Mike Mazurki, Anita Ekberg, Henry Nakamura, W.T. Chang, George Chan
Chinese refugees escaping the Communist regime are led to Hong Kong by Merchant Marine Captain Tom Wilder (John Wayne).
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Blue Steel 1934 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt, George "Gabby" Hayes, Edward Peil Sr., Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland, Lafe McKee, Earl Dwire, Horace B. Carpenter, Theodore Lorch, Tex Phelps, Hank Bell, Bud McClure, Herman Hack, Perry Murdock
Bad guys know there is gold in the hills surrounding the town of Yucca City, California, and try to force the townsfolk out of the area. A supposedly honest, leading citizen Malgrove (Edward Peil Sr.) hires the Polka Dot Bandit, aka Danti (Yakima Canutt) to rob the town's payroll of $4,000. But, never fear, undercover Marshal John Curruthers (John Wayne) saves the day when he comes to the aid of the struggling townsfolk.
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Born to the West 1937 N/R, 52 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, Monte Blue, Syd Saylor, John Patterson, Nick Lukats, Lucien Littlefield, James Craig, Jack Kennedy
Misfit Dare Rudd (John Wayne) shows up at cousin Tom's (Johnny Mack Brown) ranch and is offered a job to head a cattle drive. After "stealing" Tom's girlfriend, Dare gets taken by crooked gamblers (who had also tried to rustle cattle in Dare's care). The cousins team up to take care of the bad guys. Reissued (with added footage) as "Hell Town."
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Brannigan 1975 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, Ralph Meeker, John Vernon, Lesley-Anne Down, Barry Dennen, Brian Glover, James Booth
Chicago cop Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) heads for London on the trail of an escaped criminal.
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Cahill U. S. Marshall 1973 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Cahill: United States Marshall
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Gary Grimes, George Kennedy, Neville Brand, Marie Windsor, Denver Pyle, Jackie Coogan, Harry Carey Jr., Pepper Martin, Paul Fix, Clay O'Brien, Morgan Paull, Royal Dano, Dan Vadis, Hank Worden
A United States Marshal (John Wayne) must deal with the fact that one of his sons has chosen a life of crime.
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Cancel My Reservations 1972  G, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Bogart
Cast: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, Forrest Tucker, Anne Archer, Keenan Wynn, Chief Dan George, Ned Beatty, John Wayne, Bing Crosby
A TV talk show host, Dan Bartlett (Bob Hope), gets involved with the murder of a millionaire Arizona rancher. This is really bad despite the big-name guest stars.
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Cast a Giant Shadow 1966 N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Yul Brynner, James Donald, Luther Adler, Topol
Col. David Marcus (Kirk Douglas), West Point graduate and military lawyer, is recruited to aid Israel in its 1947 war against the Arabs. This is a romanticized perspective of the establishment of the Jewish state.
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 Chisum 1970 G, 111 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Bruce Cabot, Andrew Prine, Patric Knowles, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Lynda Day George, Pamela McMyler, Lloyd Battista, Robert Donner
King of the Pecos John Simpson Chisum (John Wayne) is the wealthiest cattleman in the New Mexico Territory in the 1870s. Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) arrives on the scene, challenges Chisum, and the cattle war begins.
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College Coach 1933 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Pat O'Brien, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Donald Meek, John Wayne, Ward Bond
Corruption in college sports is part of the theme of this film in which Phil Sargent (Dick Powell) is a young chemistry major AND football player who wins the big game for Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien). Watch for USC player John Wayne in a bit part.
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The Comancheros 1961 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Bruce Cabot, Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan, Joan O'Brien, Henry Daniell, Richard Devon, Bob Steele, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Comancheros (White men who supplied the warring Comanches with guns) were in full swing in the middle 1800s. Enter Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) who teams up with his prisoner Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) to ward off the Comancheros and bring peace to the Texas Territory.
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The Conqueror 1956  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Dick Powell
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz, Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, William Conrad, Lee Van Cleef, Thomas Gomez, Billy Curtis
This unintentional comedy stars John Wayne as Gengis Khan and Susan Hayward as Bortai his concubine. It is supposed to be a tension-filled action story of Mongols versus the Tartars, but it ends up being little more than silly dialogue. 2 User Reviews
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| | Deadly | Anonymous 02/04/2008 | | This is the film famous for the fact that all of the stars of the film would die of cancer, believed to have been caused (at least in part) by nearby nuclear bomb testing by the government. This is a film that should never have been made and certainly not "on location." |
| | The Critics were right | 1fatts 04/05/2007 | Nobody liked this movie.
Sometimes everybody can be wrong.
Not this time though. |
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 The Cowboys 1972 PG, 128 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Lonny Chapman, A Martinez, Allyn Ann McLerie, Robert Carradine, Matt Clark, Nicolas Beauvy, Sean Kelly, Charles Tyner, Jerry Gatlin, Walter Scott
When a cattleman, Wil Anderson (John Wayne), loses his experienced drovers to the lure of the gold rush, he is forced to hire raw recruits in the form of teenagers to get the cattle to market. When Wil is slain by a psychopath Long Hair (Bruce Dern) during the cattle drive, the boys become killers in their attempt at revenge.
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Dakota 1945 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ona Munson, Hugo Haas, Ward Bond, Mike Mazurki, Paul Fix, Grant Withers, Pierre Watkin, Olive Blakeney, Nick Stewart, Robert Livingston, Olin Howland
In this so-so Western, John Devlin (John Wayne) is in a territorial dispute over a railroad line. John's love interest, Sandy (Vera Ralston), is the daughter of the railway tycoon.
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The Dark Command 1940 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Main, Porter Hall, Raymond Walburn, Joe Sawyer, J. Farrell MacDonald
During the Civil War, the border between Missouri and Kansas became a hotbed when Quantrill's (Walter Pidgeon) Raiders attacked, murdered, and pillaged innocent citizens. Into the fray comes Bob Seton (John Wayne) who had become the Marshal by defeating Quantrill in an election. In the meantime, both are in love with Mary McCloud (Claire Trevor), which adds fuel to the fire.
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The Dawn Rider 1935 N/R, 53 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Yakima Canutt, Reed Howes, Dennis Moore, Joseph De Grasse, Earl Dwire, Bert Dillard, Nelson McDowell, Tex Phelps, Herman Hack, Jack Jones, Fred Parker, James Sheridan, Tex Palmer
John (John Wayne) is on the trail of the gang that killed his father and suffers a gunshot wound in the process. He is nursed back to health by Alice (Marion Burns) who turns out to be the sister of the killer. Add to that a touch of jealousy, and we're talking a final shootout.
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The Desert Trail 1935 N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lewis D. Collins
Cast: John Wayne, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler, Carmen Laroux, Lafe McKee, Al Ferguson, Henry Hall, Frank Ball, Artie Ortego, Dick Dickinson
Rodeo rider John Scott (John Wayne) is wrongly accused of a killing, so he and sidekick Kansas Charlie (Eddy Chandler) take off in pursuit of the real culprits. John even falls for a gang member's sister (Mary Kornman).
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Donovan's Reef 1963 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour, Marcel Dalio, Mike Mazurki, Edgar Buchanan, Patrick Wayne, Dick Foran, Jeffrey Byron
A group of retired sailors have found their ideal home on an island. Then, the daughter (Elizabeth Allen) of one of them joins the group, and she has her own ideas for their island paradise.
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 El Dorado 1966  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George, Jim Davis, Michele Carey, Marina Ghane, Robert Donner, John Gabriel, Johnny Crawford
John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in the same film makes for one very good Western. Hired gunman Cole Thornton (Wayne) comes to the aid of his alcoholic friend, J.B. Harrah (Mitchum), who is embroiled in a land war between the evil Bart Jason (Ed Asner) and Kevin MacDonald (R.G. Armstrong). Follow-up to "Rio Bravo."
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The Fighting Kentuckian 1949 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: George Waggner
Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor, John Howard, Hugo Haas, Grant Withers, Paul Fix, Odette Myrtil
Following the War of 1812, two frontiersmen (John Wayne and Oliver Hardy), help French refugees in Alabama who are in danger of being tricked out of their land.
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The Fighting Seabees 1944 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, William Forrest, Leonid Kinskey, J.M. Kerrigan, Grant Withers, Paul Fix, Addison Richards, Roy Brent
The danger inherent in those who serve with the Seabees is the focus of this World War II film starring John Wayne as a construction boss.
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Flame of Barbary Coast 1945 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey, Butterfly McQueen, Paul Fix, Marc Lawrence, Russell Hicks, Jack Norton
Montana rancher Duke Fergus (John Wayne) goes to San Francisco where he confronts the famous San Francisco earthquake AND a love affair with saloon singer Flaxen Tarry (Ann Dvorak).
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Flying Leathernecks 1951 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen, William Harrigan, Carleton Young, Harry Lauter, Adam Williams, Barry Kelley
This story about United States Marine Corps pilots stationed in the Pacific during World War II focuses on the interplay between the commanding officer (John Wayne) and his executive officer (Robert Ryan) who often do not see eye-to-eye.
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Flying Tigers 1942 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: David Miller
Cast: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones, Mae Clarke, Addison Richards, Gregg Barton, Richard Loo, Tom Neal
This World War II action film features John Wayne in the role of air-ace Jim Gordon who excelled in daredevil feats during dogfight actions. This film, along with others like it, improved the morale of those back home during the War.
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Fort Apache 1948 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Ward Bond, John Agar, George O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Irene Rich, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendariz, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Mae Marsh
Lt. Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) is annoyed because he has been sent out West to command Fort Apache in Arizona after serving valiantly during the Civil War. After his daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) and Lt. Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond) discover the bodies of mutilated soldiers murdered by the Apaches, Thursday decides to stir up the Indians for his own fame and fortune. One of his officers, Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), tries to teach him the realities of co-existing with the Indians and tells him that the real problem is not the Apaches, but, instead, it is the corrupt Indian agents promoting the problems. York's words go unheeded, and Thursday leads his men into a disastrous situation after which he is labeled a hero by the press.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965 N/R, 225 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, Charlton Heston, John Wayne, Shelley Winters, Robert Blake, Sidney Poitier, Telly Savalas, Michael Anderson Jr., Carroll Baker, Martin Landau, Van Heflin, Richard Conte
The life and times of Jesus Christ are depicted in this film containing an all-star cast. Max von Sydow plays the role of Jesus Christ, and the large supporting cast includes Dorothy McGuire as Mary, Claude Rains as Herod the Great, Jose Ferrer as Herod Antipas, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, and Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate.
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The Green Berets 1968  N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Wayne
Cast: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Bruce Cabot, Jack Soo, Patrick Wayne, Raymond St. Jacques, George Takei, Mike Henry, Luke Askew, Irene Tsu, Edward Faulkner, Jason Evers, Craig Jue
John Wayne moves out of the World War II genre and plays Col. Mike Kirby who leads his special forces Green Berets in the Viet Nam War. Liberal war correspondent George Beckworth (David Janssen) accompanies Col. Kirby and his troops and, as time passes, begins to understand more about the conflict and even joins in the fighting. One of the missions they accomplish is to courageously go behind enemy lines to kidnap a Viet Cong general. This film features the song, "Ballad of the Green Berets," sung by Sgt. Barry Sadler. 1 User Review
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Hatari! 1962 N/R, 159 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gerard Blain, Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, Eduard Franz, Michele Girardon, Queenie Leonard, Major Sam Harris
African adventures abound as zoo hunters on safari in Africa encounter beauty and danger on the Dark Continent as they seek new animals for America's zoos.
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Haunted Gold 1932 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Mack V. Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Harry Woods, Erville Alderson, Otto Hoffman, Martha Mattox, Blue Washington, Slim Whitaker, Bud Osborne, Ben Corbett, Bob Burns, John T. Prince, Mack V. Wright
John Mason (John Wayne) receives a weird message telling him to return to a mine that his father left him half interest in. He arrives with his sidekick Clarence (Blue Washington) and finds the deserted Sally Ann mine–an abandoned mine shaft with secret passages. But the mine is already occupied by Joe Ryan (Harry Woods) and his gang of bandits who are holed up trying to claim the mine's gold. Also in the mine is a mysterious phantom who spies on the goings on through holes in the wall. Who is the phantom, and will John be able to thwart the bandits? Throughout the adventures, love blooms between John and Janet (Sheila Terry) whose father had discovered the mine years ago.
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Hell Town 1937 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, Monte Blue, Syd Saylor, John Patterson, Nick Lukats, Lucien Littlefield, James Craig, Jack Kennedy
This is a reissue of "Born to the West" with additional footage added from that original film. Misfit Dare Rudd (John Wayne) shows up at cousin Tom's (Johnny Mack Brown) ranch and is offered a job heading a cattle drive. After "stealing" Tom's girlfriend, Dare gets taken by crooked gamblers (who also tried to rustle cattle in Dare's charge). The cousins team up to take care of the bad guys.
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 The High and the Mighty 1954 G, 147 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Newton, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Sidney Blackmer, Ann Doran, David Brian
Passengers' emotions rise to the surface when their airplane is in danger of crashing into the Pacific Ocean. All of the "Airplane" comedies resulted from this, the first airplane disaster film. The film won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score and had four other nominations, including Best Director and two for Supporting Actress (Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor).
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His Private Secretary 1933 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Phil Whitman
Cast: Evalyn Knapp, John Wayne, Alec B. Francis, Reginald Barlow, Natalie Kingston, Arthur Hoyt, Al St. John, Hugh Kidder, Mickey Rentschler, Patrick Cunning
Playboy Dick Wallace (John Wayne) can't seem to leave women alone and settle down in the family business. His father (Reginald Barlow) sends Dick to Somerville to collect overdue payments from the Reverend Hall (Alec B. Francis). Along the way to Somerville, Dick picks up Marion (Evalyn Knapp) and gives her a ride. Dick puts moves on Marion, and she slaps him. It turns out that Marion is the Reverend's granddaughter, and, for the first time in his life, Dick is really in love. They do marry, but before Dick can introduce Marion to his father, she is hired by his father as his private secretary, and her identity is kept secret. His father is impressed with Marion, who Dick works diligently for, and soon tells Dick that he wishes that Dick had married Marion.
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 Hondo 1953 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Farrow
Cast: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, Lee Aaker, James Arness, Paul Fix, Rodolfo Acosta, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish
Set among the Apache Wars of 1874, Hondo (John Wayne) is an Army scout who leads frontierswoman Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page) and her young son (Lee Aaker) through dangerous territory on their trek to California. Geraldine Page was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in this film.
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The Horse Soldiers 1959  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Strother Martin, Hoot Gibson, Anna Lee, Russell Simpson, Carleton Young, Ken Curtis, Judson Pratt, Willis Bouchey, Bing Russell, O.Z. Whitehead, Hank Worden
This story is based on a true event during the Civil War; a Union cavalry unit, led by Col. Marlowe (John Wayne), invaded the Confederacy in an attempt to weaken it into early submission. John Ford/John Wayne do their usual good job of entertaining. 1 User Review
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| | liked the movie | dirtyways 08/14/2009 | | IT WAS BASED ON TRUE EVENTS SO THAT MAKES IT ONE YOU SHOULD WATCH +JOHN WAYNE,WILLIAM HOLDEN |
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 How the West Was Won 1962 N/R, 155 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Western / Romance
Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Cast: Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Karl Malden, George Peppard, Spencer Tracy, Agnes Moorehead, Lee J. Cobb, Carolyn Jones, Carol Baker, Robert Preston, Richard Widmark
This stirring epic of the settling of the West uses the Preston family (Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Karl Malden, and Carol Baker) as its core for telling the trials and exhilarations of the move West. From farming to mining to fighting outlaws, this film is memorable. Dozens of movie stars add to the pleasure, as do the photography and musical score. The film won three Oscars and was nominated for five more, including Best Picture.
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The Hurricane Express 1932 N/R, 225 min.
Genre: Action
Director: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer
Cast: Tully Marshall, Conway Tearle, John Wayne, Shirley Grey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Matthew Betz, James P. Burtis, Lloyd Whitlock, Joseph W. Girard, Edmund Breese, Al Bridge, Charles King
In this 12-episode serial, trains are being wrecked by "The Wrecker," a master of disguises. After pilot Larry's (John Wayne) father is killed in one of the wrecks, Larry is determined to find the culprit, despite the red herrings thrown up before him.
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In Harm's Way 1965 N/R, 165 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Burgess Meredith, Slim Pickens, Dana Andrews, Brandon DeWilde, Jill Haworth, Stanley Holloway, Franchot Tone, Carroll O'Connor
The heroic efforts of the U.S. Navy following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the camaraderie of those men and women as they found ways to fight back is the theme of this movie. John Wayne plays the hero and romantic lead Capt. Rockwell Torrey, while Kirk Douglas takes on the role of the executive officer Commander Paul Eddington Jr. who creates problems.
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In Old Oklahoma 1943 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Western
aka: War of the Wildcats
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Fix, Irving Bacon
Daniel (John Wayne) and Despirit (George "Gabby" Hayes) take on villains involved in the oil business. Not bad.
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Island in the Sky 1953 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine, Harry Carey Jr., Regis Toomey, Darryl Hickman, Paul Fix, Bob Steele
Dooley (John Wayne) and the crew of his C-47 are forced into a crash landing in the frozen Arctic where their knowledge of survival tactics helps to keep them alive while awaiting rescue.
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Jet Pilot 1957 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, Richard Rober, Hans Conried, Denver Pyle, Roland Winters, Kenneth Tobey
Anna (Janet Leigh) is a Soviet agent in the United States to gather military intelligence when she meets air-ace Colonel Shannon (John Wayne). Although their relationship is supposed to be strictly business, they soon fall in love. A Howard Hughes movie that was filmed in 1950, but sat on the shelf for seven years.
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King of the Pecos 1936 N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Cy Kendall, Jack Clifford, Arthur Aylesworth, J. Frank Glendon, Herbert Heywood, Earl Dwire, Mary MacLaren, Yakima Canutt
Law student John Clayborn (John Wayne) comes home to avenge the murder of his parents several years earlier by a ruthless landowner (and rustler). After failure in the court system, John must take matters into his own hands.
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Lady from Louisiana 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: John Wayne, Ray Middleton, Ona Munson, Henry Stephenson, Helen Westley, Jack Pennick, Dorothy Dandridge, Shimen Ruskin, Jacqueline Dalya, Paul Scardon, James C. Morton
A lawyer, John Reynolds (John Wayne), leaves New England and travels to New Orleans where he looks into the lottery with plans to fight the local crime syndicate that is skimming off profits. On the trip to New Orleans, John meets Julie (Ona Munson) and falls in love. But, problems develop because Julie just happens to be the daughter of General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson) who runs the gaming business that John is trying to clean up.
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A Lady Takes a Chance 1943 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Romance
aka: The Cowboy and the Girl
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers, Hans Conried, Mary Field, Don Costello, Grady Sutton, Grant Withers, Eddy Waller
Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur) is on vacation in the West when she takes in a rodeo, and a handsome cowboy (John Wayne) falls into her lap–and her heart.
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The Lawless Frontier 1934 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Earl Dwire, Yakima Canutt, Jack Rockwell, Jay Wilsey, Gordon De Main, Herman Hack, Artie Ortego, Lloyd Whitlock, Arthur Millett
John Tobin and Dusty (John Wayne and George "Gabby" Hayes) team up to capture the outlaw Zanti (Earl Dwire) who killed John's parents years before. John takes Zanti prisoner after Zanti tries and fails to kidnap Dusty's granddaughter Ruby (Sheila Terry), but Marshal Walton (Jack Rockwell) believes that John is an outlaw. Meanwhile, Dusty is hiding in a mine where Zanti is shackled, but Zanti escapes. Now, John tracks Zanti into the desert where Zanti drinks poisoned water and dies. By story's end, John captures the other gang members, becomes the new marshal, and marries Ruby.
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Legend of the Lost 1957 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar, Sonia Moser, Angela Portaluri, Ibrahim El Hadish, Marsha Hunt
Soldier of fortune Joe January (John Wayne) leads Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi) and prostitute Dita (Sophia Loren) on a journey across the Sahara Desert in search of a treasure in jewels that was left hidden in the sand by Bonnard's religious father. They reach their destination and find the skeletal remains of Bonnard's father. After learning that his father wasn't the good man Bonnard believed him to be, Bonnard takes off with the jewels and abandons Joe and Dita. But, they survive and even fall in love, which is a much better ending to the journey than what Bonnard will be experiencing.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan 1933 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Guy Kibbee, Fifi D'Orsay, Aline MacMahon, Lyle Talbot, Mickey Rooney, George Meeker, Harold Huber, John Wayne
After he thinks he has accidentally killed a man, a prizefighter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) retreats to the children's home where he was raised. Look quickly for John Wayne as a boxer. Remade as "They Made Me a Criminal."
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The Long Voyage Home 1940 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Thomas Mitchell, John Wayne, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, Mildred Natwick, John Qualen, Ward Bond, Arthur Shields, Rafaela Ottiano
Based on a story by Eugene O'Neill, this excellent film is about the men who go down to the sea in ships to transport cargo–not fight battles–and the dangers they encounter during wartime. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Writing, Cinematography, and Music.
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 The Longest Day 1962  N/R, 180 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernard Wicki
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Curt Jurgens, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Rod Steiger, Sean Connery, Mel Ferrer, Eddie Albert, Richard Todd, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Edmond O'Brien
The sixth of June, 1944–D-Day–is relived in this saga about the Allied invasion of Europe via the beaches at Normandy. This war film is based on Cornelius Ryan's book "The Longest Day" that he compiled through interviews with D-Day survivors. The story is told through the eyes of all participants including the German high command, the French Resistance, and the Allied side of the invasion. A great epic that was nominated for Best Picture and won Oscars for Best Cinematography and Special Effects.
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Lucky Texan 1934 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lloyd Whitlock, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Eddie Parker, Gordon De Main, Hal Taliaferro, John Ince, Tex Palmer, Tex Phelps, Artie Ortego, George Morrell, Phil Dunham
Jerry (John Wayne) graduates from college and becomes a partner with Jake (George "Gabby" Hayes) in the blacksmith business. After removing a piece of gold from the hoof of a horse, Jerry and Jake track down the mine and find gold. The local assayers (Lloyd Whitlock and Yakima Canutt) are crooks and shoot Jake when he will not tell them where the mine is. Jerry is charged with the murder, but Jerry has already rescued Jake who was left for dead and makes plans to trap the assayers during his trial.
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A Man Betrayed 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Wheel of Fortune
Director: John H. Auer
Cast: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford, Ward Bond, Harold Huber, Alexander Granach, Barnett Parker, Edwin Stanley, Harry Hayden
Lawyer Lynn Hollister (John Wayne) arrives in town to take on political corruption and ends up falling in love with a crooked politician's (Edward Ellis) daughter, Sabra Cameron (Frances Dee).
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The Man from Monterey 1933 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Mack V. Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Luis Alberni, Francis Ford, Nina Quartero, Lafe McKee, Donald Reed, Lillian Leighton, Slim Whitaker, Jim Corey, Frank Ellis, Tom London, Chris-Pin Martin
U.S. Army Captain John Holmes (John Wayne) is sent to Monterey to convince land owners to register their Spanish land grants else the land will become public domain. But there are bad people out there who want property to become public domain so that they can take over the land at a cheap price. Can Captain Holmes save the land owners from such dastardly acts? This is John Wayne's last "cheapy" film before moving on to bigger and better movies.
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The Man from Utah 1934 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Polly Ann Young, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Edward Peil Sr., Anita Campillo, Lafe McKee, George Cleveland, Earl Dwire, Herman Hack, Tex Palmer, Tex Phelps, Perry Murdock, Artie Ortego, Archie Ricks
A drifter, John Westin (John Wayne), is hired by Marshal George Higgins (George "Gabby" Hayes) to investigate a gang that is cheating and then killing rodeo champions. When John participates in a rodeo and wins the first competitions, the gang's leader Spike Barton (Edward Peil Sr.) wants him to quit, but John refuses and then wins the competition. John deposits his winnings in the local bank, and Barton plans a bank robbery. But, John works on a tip, comes to the rescue, and foils Barton's plot.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Jeanette Nolan, John Carradine, John Qualen, Ken Murray, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle
This film begins with Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) arriving at the frontier town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). The visit peaks the interest of reporter Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young), and Stoddard tells the story of what took place years before when Stoddard was a young lawyer and was attacked by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) because of Stoddard's desire for statehood. Stoddard was left for dead, but Doniphon found him, took him to Shinbone, and helped him find a job. Later, Valance challenged Stoddard to a gun fight, which ended with Valance dead. By story's end, it is learned that it is Doniphon, not Stoddard, who killed Liberty Valance. But when asked if the truth will be published, the reporter replies, "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." A John Ford classic.
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McLintock! 1963 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western / Comedy / Romance
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Chill Wills, Jerry Van Dyke, Edgar Buchanan, Strother Martin, Aissa Wayne, Jack Kruschen, Bruce Cabot, Perry Lopez, Robert Lowery, Hank Worden
Rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) tries to keep peace between cattlemen and homesteaders, although he almost has more than he can handle with his estranged wife, Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), in this Comedy/Western version of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
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McQ 1974 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Sturges
Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, Julie Adams, Clu Gulager, David Huddleston, Al Lettieri, Jim Watkins, Roger E. Mosley
This fast-paced, tension-filled movie is about a policeman (John Wayne) who discovers a group of bad apples in the police force.
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Neath the Arizona Skies 1934 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western
aka: 'Neath the Arizona Skies
Director: Henry L. Frazer
Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Jay Wilsey, Shirley Jean Rickert, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Jack Rockwell, Phil Kieffer, Harry L. Fraser, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Tex Phelps, Artie Ortego, Eddie Parker
Nina (Shirley Jean Rickert) is a half-Indian child who has inherited land that contains oil. Her guardian, Chris Morrell (John Wayne), tries to contact Nina's long-lost father Tom (Earl Dwire) because she needs his signature before collecting the oil lease. Meanwhile, Sam Black (Yakima Canutt) and his gang will stop at nothing to get their hands on Nina's inheritance. Chris does find Tom, and with cowhand Matt Downing (George "Gabby" Hayes), they fight Black and his gang in a final confrontation in the Snake River.
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New Frontier 1939 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Frontier Horizon
Director: George Sherman
Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Jones, Eddy Waller, Sammy McKim, LeRoy Mason, Harrison Greene, Reginald Barlow, Dave O'Brien, Jack Ingram, Hal Price
In John Wayne's last "Three Mesqueteers" film (since he moved up to bigger-time films), the group helps settlers whose land is the prospective site for a reservoir. The Mesqueteers convince the settlers to move to a new area where irrigation is scheduled to become available. But when that turns out to be a hoax, the Mesqueteers take action.
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North to Alaska 1960 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Romance
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Fabian, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Mickey Shaughnessy, Karl Swenson, Joe Sawyer, Kathleen Freeman, John Qualen, Stanley Adams, Frank Faylen, Kermit Maynard, Roy Jenson, Alan Carney
After Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska, Sam goes to Seattle to bring back George's fiancee but finds that she has married someone else. Sam heads for a saloon and meets French dancer Michelle (Capucine). He invites her to join him on the trek back to Alaska as a replacement for George's fiancee. Michelle agrees to the plan, and all goes well–until Sam falls in love with Michelle. Other problems rise to the fore with George's young brother Billy (Fabian) who is smitten with Michelle, but she resists his advances. Meanwhile, con-man Frankie Cannon (Ernie Kovacs) plots to convince Michelle to help him steal George and Sam's gold claim. By story's end, Sam, George, Billy, and Michelle join forces to protect the gold, and Sam and Michelle discover their love for each other.
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Operation Pacific 1951 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Waggner
Cast: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Martin Milner, Philip Carey, Milburn Stone, Paul Picerni, William Campbell, Kathryn Givney
This World War II submarine drama involves the love story of "Duke" Gifford (John Wayne) and Mary Stuart (Patricia Neal) whose romance must often be put on hold while Gifford is off testing torpedoes and fighting submarine battles.
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Paradise Canyon 1935 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Carl Pierson
Cast: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Earle Hodgins, Yakima Canutt, Reed Howes, Earl Dwire, Gino Corrado, Perry Murdock, James Sheridan, Henry Hall, Horace B. Carpenter, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Tex Palmer, Tex Phelps
John Wyatt (John Wayne) rides the range in pursuit of counterfeiters in this movie starring Wayne in an early role. When he suspects Doc Carter (Earl Hodgins) of leading the counterfeit gang, Wyatt goes undercover and joins the show as a sharpshooter. When Doc and his daughter Linda (Marion Burns) are kidnapped by the real counterfeiters, Wyatt realizes his mistake and sets out to rescue them.
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Pittsburgh 1942 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Frank Craven, Louise Allbritton, Thomas Gomez, Shemp Howard, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Fix, William Haade, Nestor Paiva, Charles Coleman, Ben Taggart, Virginia Sale, Wade Boteler
Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham (John Wayne) is an ambitious man whose time spent with the coal business shows that he places work above family. He eventually loses his wife Josie (Marlene Dietrich) to John "Cash" Evans (Randolph Scott).
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The Quiet Man 1952 N/R, 129 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Francis Ford, Arthur Shields, Mae Marsh, Eileen Crowe, Sean McClory, Jack MacGowran, Ken Curtis, Harry Tenbrook, James Lilburn
American ex-boxer Sean Thornton (John Wayne) returns to his mother's village in Ireland. Once there, he falls in love with Mary Kate (Maureen O'Hara) and must win her over from her family. John Ford won his fourth Best Director Academy Award for this film. An Oscar was also received for Best Cinematography along with five other nominations, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Victor McLaglen).
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Rainbow Valley 1935 N/R, 52 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Lucile Browne, George "Gabby" Hayes, LeRoy Mason, Bert Dillard, Lloyd Ingraham, Jay Wilsey, Frank Ball, Lafe McKee, Fern Emmett, Art Dillard, Tex Palmer, Tex Phelps, Herman Hack, Eddie Parker
The Rainbow Valley community needs a new road, but Rogers (LeRoy Mason) and his gang continuously halt the project through the use of explosives. John Martin (John Wayne) sets out to uncover who is responsible and why the effort is being undermined. Martin finds that the gang is causing problems as the means to buy the land cheap, and he takes appropriate action.
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Randy Rides Alone 1934 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Henry L. Frazer
Cast: John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Artie Ortego, Tex Phelps, Horace B. Carpenter, Mack V. Wright, Tex Palmer, Murdock MacQuarrie, Herman Hack, Tommy Coats, Perry Murdock
The express office has been robbed, and Randy (John Wayne) rides into the town of Peyote Pass where he finds a saloon filled with dead bodies. Randy is falsely accused of the murders and is taken to jail. The saloon owner's niece, Sally Rogers (Alberta Vaughn), helps Randy escape so that he can find the real culprits. Randy finds the killers hiding in a cave with their leader Marvin Black (George "Gabby" Hayes) who poses as Peyote Pass shop-keeper Matt the Mute while plotting to take control of the town. Randy joins the gang members as part of his plan to bring them to justice.
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Reap the Wild Wind 1942 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford, Hedda Hopper, Lynne Overman, Walter Hampden
Set among the shipping and salvage world off the Georgia coast, this is the story of Jack Martin (John Wayne) and the owner of a shipping company (Ray Milland) who vie for the attentions of Loxi Claiborne (Paulette Goddard).
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Red River 1948 N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Carey, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Chief Yowlachie, Hank Worden, Mickey Kuhn, Hal Taliaferro, Shelley Winters
A cattle baron, Tom Dunson (John Wayne), has built up a huge estate, but trouble brews when his adoptive son Matt (Montgomery Clift)–who Tom had rescued as a boy (Mickey Kuhn) from an Indian raid–is not quite ready to put up with the hardships involved in moving cattle to the railroad in Abilene. Matt has just returned from the Civil War and stampedes and pressures of the cattle drive on a difficult route cause tension for Matt, and he is driven to the point of confrontation with his father. One of the best Westerns of the 1940s.
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Reunion in France 1942 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, John Carradine, Henry Daniell, Howard Da Silva, J. Edward Bromberg, Moroni Olsen
During World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, a Parisian woman (Joan Crawford) teams up with an American pilot (John Wayne) to escape the clutches of the Gestapo.
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Ride Him, Cowboy 1932 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Fred(2) Allen
Cast: John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Henry B. Walthall, Otis Harlan, Harry Gribbon, Frank Hagney, Edmund Cobb, Frank Ellis, Glenn Strange, Slim Whitaker, Lafe McKee, Edward(2) Burns, Ben Corbett, Hal Price, Murdock MacQuarrie
John Drury (John Wayne) saves the life of a wild horse named Duke when the horse is sentenced to death as a danger to the community after knocking a cowboy unconscious. John trains Duke and learns that Duke was framed. Later, John is about to be lynched for a crime he did not commit when the previously unconscious cowboy regains consciousness in time to name the real culprit and save John.
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Riders of Destiny 1933 N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Forrest Taylor, Al St. John, Heinie Conklin, Earl Dwire, Yakima Canutt, Si Jenks, Lafe McKee, Addie Foster, Horace B. Carpenter, Tex Palmer, Hal Price, William Dyer
An undercover government agent poses as drifter Singin' Sandy Saunders (John Wayne) while investigating James Kincaid's (Forrest Taylor) plot to steal water rights from local ranchers. Kincaid has been charging ranchers outrageously high rates to use his water, and Saunders plots with the ranchers to dry up Kincaid's water supply by opening up a lost river.
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 Rio Bravo 1959 N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, John Russell, Ricky Nelson, Claude Akins, Bob Steele, Myron Healey, Estelita Rodriguez, Malcolm Atterbury, Yakima Canutt, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Bing Russell
Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) sits with his cohorts Dude, Stumpy, and Colorado Ryan (Dean Martin, Walter Brennan, and Ricky Nelson) while holding killer Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) in his jail and waits for the Marshal to come for him. Problems develop when Joe's brother Nathan (John Russell) sends in help for a jail escape. Followed by "El Dorado."
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Rio Grande 1950 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Claude Jarman Jr., Ben Johnson, Maureen O'Hara, Harry Carey Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen, Grant Withers, Patrick Wayne, Steve Pendleton, Alberto Morin, Stan Jones
Indians are on the warpath. Fortunately for the good guys, Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is a cavalry commander fighting the Indians while trying to convince his wife (Maureen O'Hara) that life along the Mexican border is not all that bad.
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 Rio Lobo 1970 G, 114 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Jack Elam, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French, Mike Henry, David Huddleston, Bill Williams, Edward Faulkner
In this light-hearted Western, John Wayne plays a Union colonel with problems getting gold shipments to their proper destinations; it seems that Confederate guerillas are in need of the loot and are helping themselves. As usual, Jack Elam is great. This was Howard Hawks' final film.
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Rooster Cogburn 1975 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Stuart Miller
Cast: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, Strother Martin, John McIntire, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin, Warren Vanders, Lane Smith
A boozing U.S. marshal (John Wayne), complete with patch over one eye, fights for law and order with a minister's daughter (Katharine Hepburn) as his sidekick. Hepburn and Wayne are a good team in this sometimes-exciting film.
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Sagebrush Trail 1933 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Armand Schaefer
Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler, Yakima Canutt, Henry Hall, Hal Taliaferro, Bob Burns, Hank Bell, Art Mix, Hal Price, Ted Adams, William Dyer, Tex Phelps, Archie Ricks, Slim Whitaker
John Brant (John Wayne) is arrested for murder, but he is innocent. He does not stay in jail for long because he finds that it is necessary to break out to clear his name. While searching for the real killer, Brant takes the alias of "John Smith" and teams up with outlaw Joseph Conlon (Lane Chandler) who has taken the alias of "Bob Jones." Unbeknownst to Brant, his new partner is the killer he is searching for. To make matters worse, both men fall for beautiful Sally Blake (Nancy Shubert). The story continues through a series of events until Brant finally figures out that "Bob Jones" is the real killer.
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The Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: John Wayne, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, John Agar, Arthur Franz, Richard Jaeckel, Julie Bishop, Wally Cassell, James Brown, Richard Webb, James Holden, Peter Coe, William Murphy, George Tyne, Hal Baylor
In this prototype of World War II movies, John Wayne epitomizes the "Semper Fi" attitude of the U.S. Marine Corps. Sergeant Stryker (Wayne) trains his men to prepare them for the rigors of battle; in the process, he earns their respect and devotion. Technical direction from the U.S. Marine Corps perspective was provided by Lt. Col. Merlyn D. Holmes, U.S.M.C. who participated in many Allied assaults during World War II. Wayne was nominated for an Oscar.
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Santa Fe Stampede 1938 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: George Sherman
Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, William Farnum, June Martel, LeRoy Mason, Tom London, Yakima Canutt, Martin Spellman, Genee Hall
The Three Mesquiteers (John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, and Max Terhune) square off against crooked politicians. When one Mesquiteer is jailed, the others must come to his rescue.
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The Sea Chase 1955 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Farrow
Cast: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness, Paul Fix, Alan Hale Jr., John Qualen, Claude Akins
This World War II drama stars John Wayne as a German sea captain who is bound for Germany and trying to elude British Naval Forces during the voyage home.
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 The Searchers 1956 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Adventure
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles, John Qualen, Harry Carey Jr., Patrick Wayne, Henry Brandon, Antonio Moreno, Lana Wood, Olive Carey, Hank Worden, Pippa Scott, Ken Curtis
Indians have captured nine-year-old Debbie (Lana Wood). During a five-year search, an embittered cowboy (John Wayne) and his partner (Jeffrey Hunter) search for Debbie (now played by Natalie Wood). One of the great Westerns and another John Ford treasure. 1 User Review
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| | Among the most complex Ford westerns, if not the best | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | Anyone who knows American movies knows this one. I don't think it is more quintessentially "American" than the Ford Cavalry Trilogy, but there is an edge to it which sets it apart. There is an emptiness in John Wayne's Ethan Edwards that marks him and separates him so fundamentally from everything around him that we are limited in our sympathy for him and find it only appropriate that he both begins and ends the film as the outsider and perhaps the outcast.
The movie is not without flaws. Structurally, we never see what it is that changes Ethan's intention to kill Debbie and, therefore, while we are willing to accept it emotionally, it doesn't really work in terms of the plot setup.
More seriously, the whole film sets us up for a confrontation between Edwards and Scar, and, in the end, we don't get that confrontation. That is a significant weakness.
But it is a great western. Monument Valley has rarely been used to better effect. Ford's stock company all acquit themselves well, and we have a chance to appreciate John Wayne in a more complex role than we usually get to see him. |
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Seven Sinners 1940 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Albert Dekker, Billy Gilbert, Oskar Homolka, Anna Lee, Samuel S. Hinds, Reginald Denny
Bruce (John Wayne) is a young Naval officer who, along with Dr. Martin (Albert Dekker), fights for the love of Bijou (Marlene Dietrich), a young cafe singer in the South Pacific.
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Shadow of the Eagle 1932 N/R, 220 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ford Beebe, B. Reeves Eason
Cast: John Wayne, Dorothy Gulliver, Edward Hearn, Richard Tucker, Lloyd Whitlock, "Little Billy" Rhodes, Ivan Linow, James Bradbury Jr., Pat O'Malley, Walter Miller, Kenneth Harlan, Ernie Adams
In this low-budget, 12-episode serial, the Eagle levels threats against a corporation that he contends stole his invention, and the head of a traveling carnival is thought to be the Eagle. When the carnival boss turns up missing, pilot Craig McCoy (John Wayne) takes to the air in search of him. Cheap, but fast-paced.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Harry Carey Jr., Mildred Natwick, Paul Fix, George O'Brien, Arthur Shields, Michael Dugan, Noble Johnson, Fred Graham, Tom Tyler, Jack Pennick
Tried and true cavalry officer Capt. Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) is getting ready for retirement, but there is one more job left to do. He is given the assignment of escorting the wife and niece–Abby and Olivia (Mildred Natwick and Joanne Dru)–of his commanding officer Major Mac Allshard (George O'Brien) from the fort to the stagecoach at Sudros Wells. However, the Apaches are on the warpath; they have massacred Custer and the Seventh Cavalry, and dangers lie ahead on the trek to Sudros Wells. The dangers include the Indians AND two of Brittles' men (John Agar and Harry Carey, Jr.) who fight for the attention of Olivia. John and John (Ford and Wayne) are in great form.
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Shepherd of the Hills 1941 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, Marjorie Main, Ward Bond, Marc Lawrence, James Barton, Samuel S. Hinds, John Qualen
Based on Harold Bell Wright's penetrating book about young Matt (John Wayne), this is the story about a man who cannot figure why his father (Harry Carey) deserted the family.
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The Shootist 1976 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney
A gunfighter dying of cancer (John Wayne) is haunted by his own reputation in the search for a way to die. This is Wayne's final film, and it is one of his best.
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Somewhere in Sonora 1933 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Mack V. Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer, J.P. McGowan, Ann Fay, Paul Fix, Frank Rice, Billy Franey, Ralph Lewis, Slim Whitaker, Blackie Whiteford, Jim Corey, Frank Ellis, Glenn Strange, Bud Osborne
John (John Wayne) is accused of tampering with a rival's stagecoach before the stagecoach race. After being jailed, he is sprung by his employer, Bob Leadly (Henry B. Walthall), and ranch hands who are sure that John is innocent. John heads to Sonora, Mexico to clear Leadly's son Bart (Paul Fix) from a charge of murder. Not only does he do that, he also clears his own name.
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The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, Michael Anderson Jr., Martha Hyer, Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, George Kennedy, James Gregory, Paul Fix, Jeremy Slate, John Litel, John Doucette, James Westerfield, Rhys Williams
Ranch owner Katie's sons John, Tom, Matt, and Bud (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and Michael Anderson Jr.) come home for her funeral and stay long enough to fight for their land and their lives.
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The Spoilers 1942 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Romance
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey, Richard Barthelmess, George Cleveland, Samuel S. Hinds, Russell Simpson, William Farnum, Marietta Canty, Jack Norton, Forrest Taylor, Ray Bennett, Art Miles
This is a good retelling of Rex Beach's novel, "The Spoilers." Roy Glennister (John Wayne) arrives in Alaska with Helen Chester (Margaret Lindsay) and is greeted by saloon owner Cherry Malotte (Marlene Dietrich) who has staked Flapjack (Russell Simpson) as a partner in Glennister's mine. Problems rise to the fore when the gold commissioner, Alexander McNamara (Randolph Scott), conspires to take over the rights to the mines in the area. A legal fight appears to be impossible, and the result is a bar-room brawl in which Glennister and McNamara fight for the rights to the mine.
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 Stagecoach 1939 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Drama / Romance
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, Donald Meek, George Bancroft, Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler, Louise Platt, Yakima Canutt, Si Jenks, Chris-Pin Martin, Merrill McCormick
Westerns just do not get any better than this classic about a stagecoach trip, which includes all the possible problems it could encounter–even an Indian attack. An Oscar was awarded to Thomas Mitchell as Best Supporting Actor for his role of alcoholic Doc Boone. The film had several other nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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The Star Packer 1934 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, George Cleveland, Glenn Strange, Billy Franey, Eddie Parker, Thomas G. Lingham, Tex Palmer, Arthur Millett, Frank Ball, Artie Ortego
"The Shadow" is a mysterious outlaw whose gang has been victimizing the local ranchers when U.S. Marshal John Travers (John Wayne) rides into town. After the sheriff (Thomas G. Lingham) is killed, Travers volunteers to take his job and, with help from his Indian pal Yak (Yakima Canutt), begins to investigate "The Shadow." He identifies "The Shadow" as Matt Matlock (George "Gabby" Hayes), a man who has assumed the identity of the real Matt Matlock after killing him. Matlock's niece, Anita (Verna Hillie), is visiting him and has no idea that the "uncle" she is visiting is really an imposter. Travers captures "The Shadow's" gang and rescues Anita. Now, Anita and Travis fall in love, marry, and live happily ever after on the Matlock ranch with Yak by their side.
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Tall in the Saddle 1944 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: John Wayne, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ward Bond, Ella Raines, Audrey Long, Elisabeth Risdon, Paul Fix, Raymond Hatton, Frank Puglia, George Chandler
Rocklin and Dave (John Wayne and "Gabby" Hayes) are the good guys who must fight against bad guy "Judge" Robert Garvey (Ward Bond) in an effort to clear Rocklin of false murder charges.
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 Texas Cyclone 1932 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Western
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: Tim McCoy, Wheeler Oakman, Shirley Grey, John Wayne, Wallace MacDonald, Jim Farley, Walter Brennan, Harry Cording, Vernon Dent, Mary Gordon
Texas Grant (Tim McCoy) rides into Stampede and finds out that he is a dead ringer for a rancher who disappeared several years before. He uses the rancher's identity to help the missing rancher's wife (Shirley Grey) rid the town of a cattle-rustling gang that has been stealing her cattle. Texas gets help from ranch hand Steve (John Wayne, in an early film appearance) and even discovers he really is the missing rancher but had suffered from amnesia after a blow to the head. Go figure.
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Texas Terror 1935 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Lucile Browne, LeRoy Mason, George "Gabby" Hayes, Fern Emmett, Jay Wilsey, Yakima Canutt, John Ince, Henry Roquemore, Jack Duffy, Artie Ortego, Herman Hack, Tex Palmer, Tex Phelps, Frank Ball
Sheriff John Higgins (John Wayne) thinks that he has killed his good friend, Dan Matthews (Frank Ball), during an outlaw gang shootout and turns over his badge to Ed Williams (George "Gabby" Hayes). Later, John meets Dan's sister Beth (Lucile Browne) who, not knowing of the role he may have played in her brother's death, hires John as her ranch foreman. Stagecoach robber Joe Dickson (LeRoy Mason) tells Beth about John's past, and, later, John learns that Joe is the one responsible for Dan's death. John calls together a tribe of Indians to track down Joe, and, no longer feeling guilty, John is now free to fall in love with Beth.
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They Were Expendable 1945 N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Cameron Mitchell, Donald Curtis, Arthur Walsh, Jeff York, Jack Pennick, Murray Alper, Harry Tenbrook
This is a good war film about American PT Boat crews battling the Japanese in the Pacific. Lt. John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) commands a Torpedo Boat Squadron in Manila Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea, at the beginning of World War II. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, and many U.S. ships are out of commission. The assignment of Brickley's PT Boats is to run messages, but they do manage to shoot down three Japanese planes. Fed up with message-running assignments, Brickley's executive officer Lt. Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) asks for a transfer to destroyer duties. This story does not glorify war; instead, it tells it like it is–warts and all. Vintage John Ford.
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Three Faces West 1940 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters, Roland Varno, Trevor Bardette, Wade Boteler, Sonny Bupp, Russell Simpson, Charles Waldron
Dr. Braun (Charles Coburn) moves his family to America and finds that his new countrymen are facing terrible odds in the Dust Bowl. One of the neighboring farmers (John Wayne) refuses to give up during the lack of rain and encourages his fellow farmers to have patience.
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The Three Musketeers 1933 N/R, 215 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Thriller
Director: Armand Schaefer
Cast: John Wayne, Raymond Hatton, Ralph Bushman, Noah Beery Jr., Lon Chaney Jr., Ruth Hall, Jack Mulhall, Al Ferguson, Edward Peil Sr., William Desmond, Yakima Canutt, Hooper Atchley, Gordon De Main, Robert Frazer, Robert Warwick
After rescuing Clancy, Renard and Schmidt (Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, and Ralph Bushman), Lt. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) joins them in a fight against their nemesis–the Devil of the Desert, El Shatan (Yakima Canutt)–during the reign of France's Louis XIII. The last of John Wayne's serials.
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The Trail Beyond 1934 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Verna Hillie, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr., James A. Marcus, Robert Frazer, Earl Dwire, Reed Howes, Artie Ortego, Iris Lancaster, Eddie Parker, Tex Palmer
While traveling on a train, Rod Drew (John Wayne) meets his old friend, card shark Wabi (Noah Beery Jr.), who has been framed for murder. Rod helps Wabi escape, and they end up at Wabinosh General Store where Rod meets and falls in love with the owner's (Noah Beery) daughter Felice (Verna Hillie). Rod and Wabi hear about a map leading to a gold mine and track down the map but find the owner dead. In the dead man's cabin is a portrait of his daughter who they identify as Felice. After more than a few problems, Rod and Wabi capture the villains and deliver them to the police, and, by story's end, Rod rides off into the sunset with Felice.
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The Train Robbers 1973 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: John Wayne, Ann - Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban
Lane (John Wayne) sets out with Jesse (Ben Johnson) and Mrs. Lowe (Ann-Margret) to find stolen gold that had disappeared after a train robbery. Mrs. Lowe tells Lane that her husband had stolen the gold and told her where the gold was hidden. She says that she wants to return it to the bank and clear the family name. They find the gold but then are attacked by banditos. They defeat the banditos, and Mrs. Lowe leaves on a train to return the gold. Then, a Pinkerton agent (Ricardo Montalban) arrives on the scene and tells Lane that he is following Mrs. Lowe because he knows that Mrs. Lowe has concocted the story about her husband and that she learned about the gold from the real thief as he lay dying. Angry at being tricked, Lane rides after the departing train.
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Trouble Along the Way 1953 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson, Marie Windsor, Leif Erickson, Chuck Connors, Bill Radovich, Ned Glass
When a Roman Catholic college decides to devote funds to a winning football team, coach Steve Williams (John Wayne) comes out of retirement to turn a hapless group into champions.
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 True Grit 1969 G, 128 min.
Genre: Western / Adventure / Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Glen Campbell, Strother Martin, Jeremy Slate, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey, Donald Woods, Alfred Ryder, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield, John Doucette, Edith Atwater
This movie is the vehicle for John Wayne's Academy Award for Best Actor. Wayne plays the role of a rough old guy "Rooster" Cogburn who helps Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) find her father's killer Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) deep in Indian territory. They are joined in their search by Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) who is also on the trail of Chaney.
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Tycoon 1947 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, James Gleason, Anthony Quinn, Grant Withers, Paul Fix, Harry Woods, Charles Trowbridge
Businessman Frederick Alexander (Cedric Hardwicke) is determined to build a railroad through the Andes to reach mines, and to accomplish his dream he hires Johnny Munroe and Pop Mathews (John Wayne and James Gleason) to manage the project.
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The Undefeated 1969 G, 119 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Bruce Cabot, Ben Johnson, Antonio Aguilar, Lee Meriwether, Roman Gabriel, Merlin Olsen, Harry Carey Jr., Royal Dano, Marian McCargo, Melissa Newman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Edward Faulkner, Paul Fix
Ex-Yankee Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) join forces after the Civil War in the business of selling horses in Mexico.
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Wake of the Red Witch 1948 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Luther Adler, Grant Withers, Dennis Hoey, Paul Fix, Henry Daniell, Adele Mara, Eduard Franz, Jeff Corey, Erskine Sanford, Duke Kahanamoku, David Clarke, Al Kikume
Captain Ralls (John Wayne) is a ship's captain out to seek justice and the love of Angelique (Gail Russell). Dutch shipping magnate Sidneye (Luther Adler) had stolen Angelique away from Ralls and married her seven years ago, and their feud still continues. Now, Ralls finds his means of getting even. While Ralls is serving as captain of Sidneye's ship, the Red Witch, he drives the ship into a reef and sinks it with plans to return and retrieve $5,000,000 in the cargo of gold that is on the ship.
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The War Wagon 1967 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Keenan Wynn, Bruce Dern, Gene Evans, Bruce Cabot, Joanna Barnes, Sheb Wooley
Wanting revenge for being framed and sent to prison, Taw Jackson (John Wayne) gets help from his friend, Lomax (Kirk Douglas). Together, they try to hijack an armored wagon filled with gold. But–Lomax has been hired by the dastardly framer to kill Taw.
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West of the Divide 1934 N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Virginia Brown Faire, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lloyd Whitlock, Yakima Canutt, Billy O'Brien, Earl Dwire, Hal Price, Archie Ricks, Blackie Whiteford, Lafe McKee, Dick Dickinson, Horace B. Carpenter, Hal Taliaferro, Tex Palmer
Ted Hayden (John Wayne) is searching for his missing younger brother Spud (Billy O'Brien) and for the killer of his mother and father. Impersonating an outlaw named Gat Ganns, Ted joins Mr. Gentry's (Lloyd Whitlock) gang. Ted falls in love with Fay Winters (Virginia Brown Faire) and saves her ranch from Gentry's gang. He also rescues Spud and later learns that it is Gentry who killed his parents.
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Westward Ho 1935 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jack Curtis, Dickie Jones, Yakima Canutt, Hank Bell, Bradley Metcalfe, Jim Farley, Mary MacLaren, Glenn Strange
While traveling West with their parents, John Wyatt (John Wayne) and his brother, Jim (Frank McGlynn Jr.), were the only survivors of a wagon train attack. Jim was kidnapped by the band of outlaws. Years later, John forms a vigilante posse, The Singing Raiders, and seeks revenge the outlaws–not knowing that his brother now leads the gang.
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Winds of the Wasteland 1936 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Mack V. Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Phyllis Cerf, Lew Kelly, Yakima Canutt, Douglas Cosgrove, Lane Chandler, Sam Flint, Bob Kortman, Ed Cassidy, Jon Hall, Merrill McCormick, Christian J. Frank, Jack Rockwell, Arthur Millett, Horace B. Carpenter
John Blair and Larry Adams (John Wayne and Lane Chandler) buy an old stagecoach line in hopes of getting a government mail contract. But they must win a race with a rival line, and the rivals Cal Drake (Douglas Cosgrove) and his henchman Smokey (Yakima Canutt) will do anything to knock the good guys out of the running. A good early Wayne effort that helped launch him to stardom.
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The Wings of Eagles 1957 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Edmund Lowe, Kenneth Tobey, James Todd, Sig Ruman, Barry Kelley, Henry O'Neill, Willis Bouchey, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Trowbridge, Mae Marsh
This is the film biography of U.S. Navy aviator Frank W. "Spig" Wead (John Wayne) who became a writer. His marriage flounders after their baby's death, and Spig is crippled after a fall. However, World War II becomes the pivotal force in his life when he must choose between duty and the emotional needs of his wife (Maureen O'Hara).
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Without Reservations 1946 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola, Phil Brown, Frank Puglia, Thurston Hall, Dona Drake, Cary Grant, Jack Benny
Kit (Claudette Colbert) is an authoress looking for a man to play the leading role in the film version of her book when she meets returning World War II soldiers on a train and is determined to turn one of them (John Wayne) into the needed actor.
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1. 3 Godfathers (1948)
aka: Three Godfathers
2. The Alamo (1960)
3. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
4. Angel and the Badman (1947)
5. Baby Face (1933)
6. Back to Bataan (1945)
7. The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
8. Big Jake (1971)
9. Big Jim McLain (1952)
10. The Big Stampede (1932)
11. The Big Trail (1930)
12. Blood Alley (1955)
13. Blue Steel (1934)
14. Born to the West (1937)
15. Brannigan (1975)
16. Cahill U. S. Marshall (1973)
aka: Cahill: United States Marshall
17. California Straight Ahead (1937)
18. Cancel My Reservations (1972)
19. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
20. Chisum (1970)
21. Circus World (1964)
22. College Coach (1933)
23. The Comancheros (1961)
24. The Conqueror (1956)
25. The Cowboys (1972)
26. Dakota (1945)
27. The Dark Command (1940)
28. The Dawn Rider (1935)
29. The Desert Trail (1935)
30. Donovan's Reef (1963)
31. El Dorado (1966)
32. The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
33. The Fighting Seabees (1944)
34. Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
35. Flying Leathernecks (1951)
36. Flying Tigers (1942)
37. Fort Apache (1948)
38. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
39. The Green Berets (1968)
40. Hangman's House (1928)
41. Hatari! (1962)
42. Haunted Gold (1932)
43. Hell Town (1937)
44. Hellfighters (1968)
45. The High and the Mighty (1954)
46. His Private Secretary (1933)
47. Hondo (1953)
48. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
49. How the West Was Won (1962)
50. The Hurricane Express (1932)
51. I Cover the War (1937)
52. In Harm's Way (1965)
53. In Old California (1942)
54. In Old Oklahoma (1943)
aka: War of the Wildcats
55. Island in the Sky (1953)
56. Jet Pilot (1957)
57. King of the Pecos (1936)
58. Lady for a Night (1941)
59. Lady from Louisiana (1941)
60. A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
aka: The Cowboy and the Girl
61. The Lawless Frontier (1934)
62. Lawless Range (1935)
63. Legend of the Lost (1957)
64. The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
65. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
66. The Longest Day (1962)
67. Lucky Texan (1934)
68. A Man Betrayed (1941)
aka: Wheel of Fortune
69. The Man from Monterey (1933)
70. The Man from Utah (1934)
71. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
72. McLintock! (1963)
73. McQ (1974)
74. Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
aka: 'Neath the Arizona Skies
75. New Frontier (1939)
aka: Frontier Horizon
76. The Night Riders (1939)
77. North to Alaska (1960)
78. Operation Pacific (1951)
79. Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
80. Pals of the Saddle (1938)
81. Paradise Canyon (1935)
82. Pittsburgh (1942)
83. The Quiet Man (1952)
84. Rainbow Valley (1935)
85. Randy Rides Alone (1934)
86. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
87. Red River (1948)
88. Reunion in France (1942)
89. Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
90. Riders of Destiny (1933)
91. Rio Bravo (1959)
92. Rio Grande (1950)
93. Rio Lobo (1970)
94. Rooster Cogburn (1975)
95. Sagebrush Trail (1933)
96. The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
97. Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
98. The Sea Chase (1955)
99. The Searchers (1956)
100. Seven Sinners (1940)
101. Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
102. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
103. Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
104. The Shootist (1976)
105. Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
106. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
107. The Spoilers (1942)
108. Stagecoach (1939)
109. The Star Packer (1934)
110. Tall in the Saddle (1944)
111. Texas Cyclone (1932)
112. Texas Terror (1935)
113. They Were Expendable (1945)
114. Three Faces West (1940)
115. The Three Musketeers (1933)
116. The Trail Beyond (1934)
117. The Train Robbers (1973)
118. Trouble Along the Way (1953)
119. True Grit (1969)
120. Tycoon (1947)
121. The Undefeated (1969)
122. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
123. The War Wagon (1967)
124. West of the Divide (1934)
125. Westward Ho (1935)
126. Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
127. The Wings of Eagles (1957)
128. Without Reservations (1946)
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