What's your favorite John Wayne movie?
 

No poll, just need an answer.

The Cowboys or Big Jake.

Hmm. Tough choice to make but I would have to go with El Dorado

Sons of Katie Elder.

Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit were a very close second

Just FYI

The real Wyatt Earp was friends with John Wayne. They met on a movie set and became close friends. He gave him advise on how to be a cowboy, hold a gun etc. John Wayne gave him advise on how to get Wyatt Earps screenplays and books into the right hands of Hollywood.

His last one was a dandy:

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Are you sure? Earp died before Wayne became a true star. It's not impossible, but it would have had to be REALLY early on and close to Earp's death, no?

Probably an urban legend.

Strangely not a western. The Quiet Man.

Fact according to the Duke. In multiple interviews over the years, he credited his believability as a cowboy to what Wyatt Earp taught him.

Their ages don't add up. Earp died in 1929. Wayne was still a sophomore football player at USC and hadn't thought of acting.

Rio Bravo.

Rio Grande

The Searchers

I really couldn't pick a favorite. I've never seen one I wouldn't watch again
So many come to mind. They, or rather he was a big part of my childhood.

McClintock then The Green Berets.

"Tefertiller claims that while Earp was hanging around Hollywood backlots at the end of his life, he ran into the young Marion Morrison, a.k.a. John Wayne, who later "modeled his persona" on those encounters. Tefertiller's source? A single remark by TV's Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian, claiming that the Duke once, 30 years ago or so, told him that he was doing a helluva job, and he, the Duke, should know because he knew Wyatt Earp. That's it. No other reference, no other source, no mention of this rather earth-shaking news by anybody who ever knew John Wayne, including John Ford, who did know Earp and who undoubtedly would've told everyone if Earp had met Wayne."

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I've never seen a John Wayne movie. But I LOVE his music!!

There are too many great ones to pick just one. Hell, I'm not sure I could narrow it down to a dozen.

Wow! It's hard for me to pick just one too. I like several...

He was brilliant as Genghis Khan.

And we have a winner.

Wayne was not yet acting, but was a stagehand. Earp was hanging around the studio, and that's where they supposedly had a lot of conversations.

Red River

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They are all the same.

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The one where he plays an Army guy and the one where he's a cowboy.

Shit. I forgot that one. So bad ass. OK...also the one where he was Genghis Khan.

Yeah. And the one where he was a boxer.

I think we need an 8 week poll/tournament, with 20 rounds, to really determine which is the best!

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North to Alaska

Sands of Iwo Jima

I'd prefer John Wayne vs. Elvis Presley. Which Presley movie could take out Genghis Khan? The one where he's a race car driver moonlighting as a singer, or the one where he's a singer moonlighting as a race car driver? Or the one where he's a bartender moonlighting as a singing race car driver?

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sons of katie elder is good too


lots of good ones

Lets call it a tie for first between Stagecoach and Rio Bravo.

This, my uncle played himself in the movie.

Rooster Cogburn

It would be easier to tell ones I didn't like. I wasn't fond of Cahill US Marshall and The Shepard of the Hills. I didn't hate it but Hatari wasn't a favorite.

I guess favorites would be Big Jake, The Cowboys, Searchers and Comancheros.

Shepherd of the Hills was garbage.

or so you've been told, by our government

War: They Were Expendable
Western: Rio Bravo
Other: The Quiet Man

McClintock or True Grit. I've always liked McQ also because I saw it with my dad and I loved the Trans Am in that movie.

WTF how about this classic

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Not a Wayne fan but men like Ford and Hawks made good use of him. Stagecoach, The Searchers, Red River, and The Long Voyage home are the favorites.

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin and directed by John Ford. (Most critics consider this Ford's greatest work.)

Also, as a bit of trivia, the title song sung by Gene Pitney and written by Burt Bacharach was recorded for the movie, but rumor has it that Ford didn't like it and left it out. However, it was released independently and reached #4 on Billboard the same year that the movie was released (1962).

***** - rogerebert.com
93% - Rotten Tomatoes

From Classic Film Guide:
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Too many to choose from. I've been a BIG fan ever since I can remember. He was my hero growing up. He was my favorite actor of all time. Wayne took care of his acting friends also. You repeatedly see them in his movies; Ben Johnson, Victor McGlauflin, Ward Bond, Maureen O'hare ect. I have a picture of him, that my wife allows me to hang in the bedroom. Not many women would allow that kind of decor.

She probably uses it for masturbation.

Combat: Sands of Iwo Jima
Western: True Grit
Drama: The Quiet Man
Obscure: Jet Pilot

well played sir, well played!

This movie does not have John Wayne, but it is one of my favorite westerns.
The Big Country starred Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Chuck Conner, and Charles Bickford. It was 'epic'.

As for Wayne, I'll cast a vote for Liberty Valance.

I liked his appearance in family guy. "Happy Thanksgiving pilgrims"

I'll probably go with The Shootist (1976). I've been meaning to check out the book for years, but I've never gotten around to it.


I'm a big fan of westerns, but oddly enough, I never liked John Wayne. He always seemed to sleepwalk through his movies. I hated the way he delivered dialog too; almost as if he were just reading the script aloud in a bemused sort of way. He never acted like his characters were concerned about their predicaments so I never felt much concern as a viewer.

p.s. If anyone is a fan of his movie "The Searchers" do yourself a favor and check out the book it was based on. It's fantastic.

Heh, didn't he make two of those?


That must have been his answer to the Dirty Harry series and westerns were starting to die out in the early 70s.

Blazing Saddles killed the Western for quite a while.

I think extreme overexposure killed westerns. Theater's and tv were flooded with them throughout the 50's and 60's. Strict new anti violence rules for tv in 68 finished off the tv western. The rise of urban crime thrillers combined with Hollywood's more "enlightened" revisionist westerns killed the big screen westerns.

Pretty much what I think.

Gritty, urban 70s cinema tastes killed the westerns.

Although, A lot of westerns made after it's heyday I liked.

Outlaw Josey Wales, Silverado, Pale Rider, Lonesome Dove, dances with wolves , Unforgiven. We're all strong in their own ways.

I could never stand the Pecker head rest of that cast is golden!

Dont forget Open Range, Tombstone and Wyatt Earp.

Have you ever noticed that Pale Rider is pretty much a remake of Shane combined with a bit of High Plains Drifter?

Post 1960's westerns that i like:

Barquero (1970)
Chato's Land (1972)
Hardcase (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Billy Two Hats (1974)
Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Barbarosa (1982)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Unforgiven (1992)

I like Gregory Peck. Pork Chop Hill, Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear (1962), The Omen - the dude was in a lot of great movies.




Outlaw Josey Wales


Anybody else think the movie bogged down a bit after Josey gets his new "family"? I was really hoping Eastwood would have gunned down the old woman and the carpetbagger. Still a great movie. Little trivia: The author of the book was a white supremacist.

Can't choose between them: The Searchers and The Quiet Man.

Shane was a POS the kids whine made me want him gunned down.



That was a movie Hollywood thought a western should be. Not at all what a fan wants.

I completely agree. That potato headed tard annoyed the hell out of me. Alan Ladd was completely wrong for the part of Shane too. The man was 3 feet tall. Jack Palance was good though.

Shane is a classic!


And yes, Pale Rider was basically a knockoff of Shane.

The plot is solid, but the casting ruined it for me.

Trivia note:

John Wayne (and Frank Sinatra) turned down the role of Dirty Harry.

John Wayne did his own version ---- McQ

Favorite Wayner..... In Harms Way, McClintock

The Quiet Man

Hard to picture either of them in DH. They made the right choice.

:thumb: Absolutely.

Good. Neither one would have been right for that.

Gotta be The Quiet Man.

I think Sinatra could have pulled it off. He was pretty good playing that vengeful cop in that episode of Magnum.

I really like Hatari!

Either would have been fine as Dirty Harry. It would just be a very different version, but still just fine.

Lee Marvin would have made a great Harry Callahan. I think James Coburn would have been great too. Steve McQueen of course, if he didn't get cancer.

Thing is, each of these Hollywood tough guys would have played it differently from what they bring to the silver screen, but every one would make it work.

John Wayne is the one I have a hard time really seeing as Harry Callahan, but he was a very good actor in his own right and played his owl style of the strong/silent type. You watch him in "The Searchers" and what is he in that but Harry Callahan. The Vengeance of Hell on wheels with steely eyes and single minded focus. He would need a director to keep him in that dead serious mode from The Searchers, and not take it ironic or comedic at all, but yes... the Duke could have pulled it off. No problemo.

You just wouldn't have lines like "Make my day" or "Do I feel lucky? Well, do you...Punk!"

But the Duke would have had his own memorable lines. Bank on it.