John Wayne's Best Movies - Top Ten?

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[JoeProBono]

[11Bush]

Thank you. My favorite line from that movie, and there was plenty of them, is:

'You follow them and I'll hunt you down and kill you. Every mother's son one of you.'

[mware]

It is said that, that movie lead to the death of just about everyone in the case and crew. Almost all died of cancer. Seems they filmed in an area where nuclear wastes were bumped.

[racing fan]

How about The Big Trail?

[JoeProBono]

[Tuxedo]

Didn’t see it listed but I have a soft spot for El Dorado. Plus Wake of the Red Witch, Hondo, Chisum, Angel and the Badman, The Comancheros... could go on and on. Even liked Hatari!

[BenLurkin]

[afnamvet]

‘In Harm’s Way’, ‘True Grit’, “The Shootist’ and ‘The Searchers’.

[NewJerseyJoe]

I know I'm gonna catch hell for this, but here goes...

Randolph Scott was much better than John Wayne.

[mware]

Director Dick Powell, many of the actors (John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz, Thomas Gomez, Agnes Moorehead), and several of the crew members later fell victim to cancer, allegedly the result of producer Howard Hughes’ decision to lens the film on location near the atomic testing grounds in the Utah desert. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

[mware]

My favorite co stars on Wayne films were Ward Bond, Pedro Armendariz, and Victor McLaughlin.

[thescourged1]

One of my favorite scenes that proved The Duke could act, was in the saloon after the battle at the railroad siding in 'The Horse Soldiers'. Drunk, angry, bitter all at the same time....well done and a poke in the eye for anyone that said he couldn't do it.

[advertising guy]

there is a b & w movie where the Duke plays a pharmicist from Boston visiting San Francisco to open a business.

The rich dude that ownes the town and his soon to be wed troph wife watch as the Duke makes his rounds in social parties......

.. after a while, the woman approaches the Duke and says

” I’ve been watchin you from afar, do you have ANY flaws ?”

the Duke looks, pauses, smiles and says “ Yes Ma’am, I tell the truth”

best line ever uttered

[Let's Roll]

“Hondo” needs to be in there.

And “El Dorado” instead of “Rio Bravo”. Although the two movies had the same plot, Robert Mitchum playing the Dean Martin part in “El Dorado” made it a much better movie because the very talented Mitchum, unlike the over rated Martin, had to do some acting to play a drunk.

[PeteB570]

What were those lines at the start of the movie?

“That’s highway robbery!”

“I don’t think you’ll get a better offer today.”

And then a bit later and a few more times in the movie -

“Who are you?”

Great movie for the one liners.

[quesera]

I loved “El Dorado”, too bad it’s not in the list.

[Marmolade]

I’ve always enjoyed a good John Wayne movie and our son is a huge fan, with quite the collection. I don’t see “The sons of Katie Elder” listed, which is another of my favorites.

[CAluvdubya]

It wasn’t a top 10 movies but the only one I don’t see even mentioned is The Sons of Katie Elder. I used to enjoy watching that one wth my dad.

[JoeProBono]

[KrisKrinkle]

To all those who can't think of a bad movie he made, I submit "The Conquerers", from 1956, in which he played Gengis Kahn. If you haven't seen it, there's a reason.