[fredhead]

What are the best and worst John Wayne movies?

Best: The Searchers Worst: Riders of Destiny (In this 1933 film Wayne stars as Singin' Sandy Saunders, who also happens to be a government agent. The singing is dubbes, and the lipsync is terrible.)

What are the best and worst Humphrey Bogart movies?

Best: The Caine Mutiny Worst: The Return of Doctor X (Bogie plays a zombie of sorts)

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Duke Best: The Shootist
The Duke Worst: Jet Pilot

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I'm not a fan of Wayne, but I think the worst fit for him was that movie set in present day (for the time -- about 1970ish) with lots of car chases. My favorite is "The Quiet Man".

Bogart -- the best -- Casablanca or Caine Mutiny, haven't seen Doctor X, so I'll take your word for it.

[Brainhose]

Favorite John Wayne movie(s)? That's a toughie,I enjoy every one I've seen. Lately its: The Silent Man and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and McQ.
Least favorite? I haven't seen Riders of Destiny but from the description that would probably be it.

[day10]

Best: True Grit
Worst: McQ (the worst I have seen anyway)

[Mathews]

The Duke
Best: True Grit
Worst: Sands of Iwo Jima (only 'cause he gets killed in the end... really can't think of a John Wayne flick I didn't like)

Bogart:
Best: Cain Mutiny
Worst: Doctor X

[Maximus of Texas]

The Duke:

The Best is True Grit
The worse are any of his black and white films and it looks like his wearing make up.

Bogy:
Haven't seen enough to know.

[Maximus of Texas]

The Duke:

I should mention that "The Cowboys" runs a close 2nd.

[tje]

The worst John Wayne was the one where he was cast as some mongolian war lord...

[Semper Vigilantis]

Best Duke: True Grit & (too a lesser degree) Rooster Cogburn. I also enjoy El Dorado.
Worst Least liked Duke: McQ - seemed like a Dirty Harry knockoff.

Bogart: I like The African Queen.

[Richard Kimball]

Best John Wayne movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Best Bogey: Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Would have been the Caine Mutiny if they hadn't screwed up the ending.

"Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance."

"Hey mister, can you stake a fellow American to a meal?"

[LongElegantLegs]

I can't remember the name, but one of my favorite Bogart movies was the one where he plays a man wrongly convicted of murdering his wife; he escapes from prison and has plastic surgery, then sets out to screw over the woman responsible...Sort of The Fugitive meets The Count of Monte Christo...Anyone know what it was called?

My least favorite was The Jade Falcon

[trubluolyguy]

John Wayne?


I never liked "The Cowboys."

But my favorite movie of all time is "Sons of Katie Elder"

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Bogie - maybe not his very worst movie but for my money To Have and Have Not --- sucked.

Why?

1. The title implies a relationship to the Hemingway book that is non-existent.
2. It looks like they were trying to remake Casablanca and failed, right down to the gather round the piano scenes.
3. Lauren Bacall may have been hot but she's trying waaaay too hard.
4. The plot makes no sense (to me).
5. Nothing in it is believable and that goes for all of the characters.

It's hard to re-catch lightning in a bottle and that's what this movie tried to do.

[djf]

The Bogie film I want the most was only recently released on DVD.

The Petrified Forest, 1936, with Bette Davis and Leslie Howard

[lugsoul]

The worst Duke movie - though it is fun in a campy kind of way - is Reap The Wild Wind.

"I adjourn this trial to the wreck of the Southern Cross."

[johnny7]

Best of Bogie = Casablana... Key Largo, close 2nd

Best of Duke = Sands of Iwo Jima

[johnny7]

Casablan(C)a

[PhatHead]

Hard to pick a favorite - like trying to choose between my children - here are a few that I like for each:

Bogart:
Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Duke:
True Grit
Hondo

[Auntbee]

Major John Wayne fan here. Favorite would have to be Big Jake. Didn't care for the real early ones. Another fave, Sons Of Katie Elder.

[04-Bravo]

John Wayne's best: "The Searchers". It's my favorite western.

John Wayne's worst: A tie between "The Conquerer" and "Jet Pilot."

I don't know what this says about me, but I kind of like the Singin' Sandy movies and The Three Mesquiteers, especially when they have Gabby Hayes and Yakima Canutt as co-stars.

Bogart's best: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

If there's a bad bogart movie, I haven't seen it.