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.
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!
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.
I remember it well.
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.
In addition to the “traditional” JW classics:
Big Jake
Chisum
Donovan’s Reef
Hatari! (for Elsa Martinelli)
Brannigan (Jaguar chase scene)
McQ
I guess I'm getting old enough to have outlived a lot of other people who may have seen it!
Yea, the old lady got one........:O)
Yeah I love “The Cowboys,” definitely one of my favorites from the Duke...
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.
My kids LOVE “The Cowboys”, even though I fast forward through the scene with the hookers.
Regards,
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.
i hated that movie. lol i still cannot stand to watch bruce dern in anything because of that movie.
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