John Wayne Movies what's your fav.?

[botrytis]

I like - The Quiet Man - it is a great movie. I do like most of the John Wayne movies. I remember, as a kid, being taken to see Chisum with my Grandfather who really liked John Wayne.

Dave

[Andyman]

Originally Posted by Mike Bama

There will never be another Duke, as well as Steve McQueen, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, and the likes. I fear we will never again have so many great actors at the same time, ever again.

Well maybe not the current crop, but the '70s were pretty damn good with Pacino, DeNiro, Nicholson, Hoffman, and Eastwood to name a few

BTW, you can add Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Spencer Tracy to that first list

[Thatch_Ear]

Red River....a black and white Ford western and Montgomery Clift as his son...... too bad that guy died young, he was a real talent.

[nevermind]

I like the ones when he was really young.Don't remember the names of the movies.
And,Rio Bravo.

[Marantz3650]

I like "The Man who shot Liberty Valance"

"That's my steak.....pick it up!!!"

[Tom Brennan]

Finally somebody with some taste. The best Wayne pictures are, of course, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "The Searchers". That's because they're Ford's best.

Next comes "Rio Grande" and two Hawks pictures, "Rio Bravo" and "Red River".

Anything directed by Andrew McGlaglen or Burt Kennedy is automatic junk.

"Donovan's Reef" is very interesting but what Ford was really up to on that picture is probably over most folk's heads.

Wayne's best scene is in Ford's "The Wings of Eagles" as the used-up old sailor (Wayne) is sent by breech's bouy from the big carrier to the destroyer and realizes his whole life has been a waste. Wayne doesn't speak, nor does he in his next best scene, in "The Searchers" when he silently reacts to the insane woman rescued from the Comanches.

[2DualsNotEnough]

The Wings of Eagles has a lot of great Duke scenes in it,like the extended sequence when hes bedridden,trying to will his toe to move.
I think The Searchers is the best American Western,period.But any Duke will do as long as I dont have to watch Paint your Wagon Again!!!!
Jimmy

[VintageNut]

Here's an article about Lonesome Dove. http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/...some_dove.html

"Lonesome Dove originated as a screenplay called The Streets of Laredo, which was intended as a vehicle for John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart." That would have been something. Or how about John Wayne in Silverado. Or how about a new thread on what movie would you like to have seen Wayne in.

Hard choice, so many had such great one liners

The Undefeated
when asked "You went out there to talk. Why did you have to shoot the man?" Wayne " Well m'am the conversation just sort of dried up"
True Grit
Duvall" I'd call that mighty bold talk for a one-eyed fatman, Rooster"
Wayne. "Fill your hands you son-of-a-bitch"

I could go on for a long time on this thought, but after having read Charles Portis' book "True Grit" the screenplay was a perfect adaptation.I have to say "True Grit" I thought it was weak at the time but it has held up extremely well.
Also

Rio Lobo
just love the cast of characters especially Jack Elam

McClintock
the mud fight

I really just like them all, some are just better than others.
John

I even enjoy the really early ones he made with Yakima Canutt (one of the great early stuntmen who developed many of the stunt techniques still used today). Many of my favorites have already been mentioned like Big Jake, The Quiet Man, Red River and The Searchers. I'll add some that are not thought of as often like Stagecoach, Angel and the Badman, Tall in the Saddle, Sands of Iwo Jima,Fort Apache and Three Godfathers. One of my favorite one liners is in Tall in the Saddle. After whacking a bad guy in the head with his gun rather than shooting him an older woman runs up to Wayne and says (as near as I can remember) "I saw what you did young man. You hit that man right in the head!" To which Wayne laconically replies, "Yes ma'am. Just as hard as I could." Now that's vintage. Oh and by the way, John Wayne didn't appear in Hud (Paul Newman) or Paint Your Wagon (Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood).

Gary

[Sandy G]

"The High and the Mighty". Don't know what I like the best about it-Duke, crippled airplane, or that beautiful theme. Filmed when flying WAS a real adventure-the planes were rough 'n' tough as the men who flew 'em...IIRC, a fella named Dmitri Tiomkin wrote that haunting theme-he also wrote the theme to "Rawhide".-Sandy G.

[wizard_len]

I'd have to vote for McClintock, North to Alaska and Sons of Katie Elder.

[Toasted Almond]

Not a big fan of The Duke, but I've seen a lot of his work. The Searchers is a great movie.

[Tonedeaf]

I pretty much like them all.
AMC had a marthon last weekend with nothing but John Wayne movies.
I had to work nights, but was I watching John Wayne non stop most of the day.
Turned out to be a good weekend after all.