John Wayne's Best Movies - Top Ten?

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[JoeProBono]

Good one

[My hearts in London - Everett]

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!

[BenLurkin]

Horse Soldiers

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

[Reagan Man]

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.

[Oztrich Boy]

Another really really bad John Wayne movie is “Jet Pilot”.

I remember it well.

[william clark]

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.

[PLMerite]

In addition to the “traditional” JW classics:

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

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[oldsalt]

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!

[goat granny]

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

[sargon]

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

[PLMerite]

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.

[JoeProBono]

[VermiciousKnid]

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

Regards,

[Shqipo]

My vote goes for “They Were Expendable.”

[JoeProBono]

[BenLurkin]

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

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

[madamemayhem]

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.

[madamemayhem]

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