Posted on 01/19/2016 12:32:17 PM PST by Sparticus
So I was watching a movie with my kids (10 and 13) the other day and was thinking about how different the media is that they consume than from the stuff I was raised on.
I would like to get them interested in older movies with positive messages. Which John Wayne and which WWII movies are your favorites and which would think would grab kids' attention?
I'm thinking "The Cowboys" would be good, but what else would everyone suggest?
John Wayne made a lot of movies very early in his career which are quite entertaining. I would look for them.
I forget what a big man the Duke was. Met him at a dinner in Hollywood once. Then I was 6’1”, 240lbs of football muscle. He made me feel small.
Hmmmm. I’d skip “Hatari” (1962). Saw it at a drive-in theater when it first came out. I think his son was in it with him. Also Red Buttons. They lasso rhinoceros’ from a jeep and stuff like that.
Definitely Patton and a Gregory Peck favorite of mine 12 O’Clock High. Also like Guadalcanal Diary.
The Searchers
The Longest Day
“The Cowboys (1972)
A GREAT film about ‘boys becoming men’ under Wayne’s guidance. “
It also had one of the all time hate-worthy villains (Bruce Dern). Few times have I enjoyed the comeuppance more. Yeah, I didn’t like him one bit.
Stagecoach & McClintock for the west
“Flying Tigers” & “Back to Bataan” for WW II.
Could be”In Harms Way.”
“For WWII movies, you can have them see the good version of Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor.”
Dear lord, that movie is filled with outright lies.
Westerns with John Wayne: all of the John Ford cavalry sagas - Rio Grande, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
“The Searchers” is probably Wayne’s best western, though not necessarily the best for kiddies - the scene where Wayne talks about finding the body of his murdered niece is maybe the single best bit of acting he ever did (except perhaps the one wherein he says goodbye to his landlady in “The Shootist”).....
Chisum, Eldorado, or the Train Robbers in that order.
I suggest The Big Trail. There are so many sights of how to do things the old way, before powered equipment. I think that’s next of my watch list for tonight.
I will add:
Tom Mix
Roy Rogers
Hopalong Cassidy
There are other cowboys and cowgirls from that time who did some very good movies.
I believe so
Hey dumbass, you’re the only one who mentioned The Big Trail.
Well, even tho it’s from 1930 or 1934, it’s still one of the great ones.
One tv show that wanted Wayne,that he did a promo for but did not want to do tv,was Gunsmoke,with James Rness,good values.
Also The Rifleman with Chuck Conners always had good Father son messages.
Don’t forget ‘The Conqueror’!
/s ;D
I also loved “The Enemy Below” with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jergens,. Thought it really showed what war on and below the high seas was all about. Man against Man. A killer sub fighting a sub-killer. Always liked thhe book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. don’t know if it was ever made into a movie. Great read.
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