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John Wayne's Best Movies - Top Ten?
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Posted on 01/10/2010 11:19:14 AM PST by JoeProBono

1 The Searchers

This John Ford Western chronicles the efforts of a Confederate veteran (Wayne) to track down the daughter of his murdered brother.

2 Rio Bravo

The Duke and Dean Martin are the pair of old friends at the heart of this Howard Hawks hit, in which the pair tussles with a local lawbreaker.

3 The Quiet Man

Wayne shows his softer side with this drama about the tempestuous affair between an Irish-American expat and an Irish woman.

4 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

In this John Ford Western, Wayne stars as a rancher who pairs up with a law school grad (James Stewart) to take down the bad guy.

5 The Shootist

The actor's last movie ever finds Wayne starring opposite Lauren Bacall and James Stewart as a gunslinger dying of cancer.

6 True Grit

Wayne's Oscar-winning turn as aging sheriff Rooster Cogburn finds him trekking into Indian territory to avenge a man's death.

7 Stagecoach

For Wayne's breakout performance, he plays good-at-heart outlaw Ringo, who wins over a group of lawmen defending an east-bound train.

8 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

This vivid, meditative Western finds Wayne portraying an aging war hero struggling with his impending retirement.

9 Red River

This early Howard Hawks Western stars Wayne as a rancher who battles mutiny among his men as he drives his cattle up the Chisholm Trail.

10 Sands of Iwo Jima

This 1949 war flick finds Wayne starring as John Stryker, a marine sergeant charged with leading his men to war.



TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; johnwayne; jpb; topten; westerns
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To: goat granny
Good one


101 posted on 01/10/2010 2:25:35 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

My favorite is Lady Takes A Chance with Jean Arthur where’s he’s so besotted with her that he dons an apron, but then I’m a girl!


102 posted on 01/10/2010 2:33:05 PM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.)
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To: Reagan Man; JoeProBono; All

Horse Soldiers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7PPpyo6yw


103 posted on 01/10/2010 2:36:55 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Yes! Wayne and Holden. They both made over a million dollars on that one.

The Horse Soldiers was my the first movie in a theater. It was the only movie Ford ever directed about the Civil War. Aside from his episode in How the West Was Won.


104 posted on 01/10/2010 2:45:33 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Reily
Another really really bad John Wayne movie is “Jet Pilot”.

I remember it well.


105 posted on 01/10/2010 2:45:46 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Don't panic, the lunatics are in charge and have everything in hand.)
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To: 11Bush

Glad to see someone else likes The Train Robbers. It’s a personal favorite of mine. Not much on plot, but a really fun ensemble cast to watch:

Wayne
Rod Taylor
Ben Johnson
Christopher George
Bobby Vinton
Ann-Margret
Ricardo Montalban

But all other considerations aside, if we’re talking just plain best, my vote would go to Red River.


106 posted on 01/10/2010 2:51:35 PM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: JoeProBono

In addition to the “traditional” JW classics:

Big Jake
Chisum
Donovan’s Reef
Hatari! (for Elsa Martinelli)
Brannigan (Jaguar chase scene)
McQ


107 posted on 01/10/2010 3:07:06 PM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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108 posted on 01/10/2010 3:17:16 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: william clark

109 posted on 01/10/2010 3:18:42 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Am I the only one who ever saw Trouble Along the Way" where the Duke played a slightly underhanded college football coach who was reformed by his daughter,(Natalie Wood),and Donna Reed? It was circa 1950 or so and was one of my faves on late night TV in later years.

I guess I'm getting old enough to have outlived a lot of other people who may have seen it!

110 posted on 01/10/2010 3:21:47 PM PST by oldsalt (There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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To: JoeProBono

Yea, the old lady got one........:O)


111 posted on 01/10/2010 3:23:54 PM PST by goat granny
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To: historyrepeatz

Yeah I love “The Cowboys,” definitely one of my favorites from the Duke...


112 posted on 01/10/2010 3:26:41 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: oldsalt

Yes!

I love the scene where the president of the college is running down the football schedule (all powerhouse teams) and John Wayne’s character falls off the stage.


113 posted on 01/10/2010 3:36:19 PM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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114 posted on 01/10/2010 3:41:28 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: historyrepeatz

My kids LOVE “The Cowboys”, even though I fast forward through the scene with the hookers.

Regards,


115 posted on 01/10/2010 3:43:41 PM PST by VermiciousKnid (Grab your gun and bring in the cat.)
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To: JoeProBono
My vote goes for “They Were Expendable.”
116 posted on 01/10/2010 3:49:53 PM PST by Shqipo (Palin/Thompson 2012)
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To: goat granny

117 posted on 01/10/2010 3:55:10 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: PLMerite

McQ Car Chase (1974) — featuring, I think, a MAC-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2IQfxg2rN4


118 posted on 01/10/2010 4:24:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: JoeProBono

the quiet man definately. after that i would include hatari! (just for the hell of it), and donovans reef (its john wayne and lee marvin), hellfighters (its john wayne and jim hutton), big jake (its john wayne, maureen ohara, and richard boone), the sons of katie elder (keep an eye out for dennis hopper), el dorado, (hey theres john wayne! with robert mitchum and james cann), gotta have true grit on that list (robert duvall and one of the greatest lines in movie history “fill your hand you son of a b!tch) and what is probably my most favorite mclintock (john wayne, maureen ohara, yvonne decarlo, a fight in a mud pit, and a butt whippin) it just does not get better than that. although i would probably put the green berets in that list somewhere, i am not a huge fan of the war movies.


119 posted on 01/10/2010 4:28:40 PM PST by madamemayhem (defeat isn't getting knocked down, it's not getting back up)
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To: historyrepeatz

i hated that movie. lol i still cannot stand to watch bruce dern in anything because of that movie.


120 posted on 01/10/2010 4:31:55 PM PST by madamemayhem (defeat isn't getting knocked down, it's not getting back up)
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