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John Wayne's Best Movies - Top Ten?
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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.



TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; johnwayne; jpb; topten; westerns
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To: JoeProBono

“The Three Godfathers” has to be up in the top 10 somewhere...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040064/


61 posted on 01/10/2010 12:17:27 PM PST by Syntyr (Mace, Kirk, Thomson, Griffin, Scusa, Martin, Gallegos, Hart - Remember the fallen of Kamdesh)
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To: KrisKrinkle

I saw part of that movie once in the eighties. It was so bad I couldn’t even watch it.


62 posted on 01/10/2010 12:17:44 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: PeteB570
"Gimme a beer"
"Sorry, no drinking on election day"
"Then how 'bout a beer - beer's not drinking"
63 posted on 01/10/2010 12:18:13 PM PST by circlecity
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To: JoeProBono
If you only give me ten picks, I'll have to fudge a bit.

In chronological order.

They Were Expendable
Red River
The Ford Cavalry Trilogy
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Quiet Man
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Shootist

64 posted on 01/10/2010 12:18:18 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: thescourged1


65 posted on 01/10/2010 12:18:48 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: circlecity

Man, I screwed it up. First line should be, “Give me a whiskey”


66 posted on 01/10/2010 12:19:27 PM PST by circlecity
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To: JoeProBono

Rio bravo is ranked way too high in that list. Iwo jima, true grit, and the shootist are ranked too low.


67 posted on 01/10/2010 12:19:49 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: KrisKrinkle
Yes it proably lead to his death as well as a host of others in the film.

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

Very sad, Armendariz has several bouts with cancer before he committed sucide. I loved him in The Three Godfathers.

68 posted on 01/10/2010 12:19:55 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Marmolade

57 posts and you are the first mention of “the Sons of Katie Elder”...


69 posted on 01/10/2010 12:21:05 PM PST by RebelTXRose
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To: NewJerseyJoe

70 posted on 01/10/2010 12:21:41 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Syntyr

71 posted on 01/10/2010 12:25:11 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: wildbill

Wasn’t Hondo played by Alan Ladd? (or I am thinking of another Louis Lamore book)


72 posted on 01/10/2010 12:26:11 PM PST by goat granny
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To: mware

The exterior scenes were shot on location near St. George, Utah, 137 miles downwind of the United States government’s Nevada Test Site, Operation Upshot-Knothole, where extensive above-ground nuclear weapons testing occurred during the 1950s. The cast and crew spent many difficult weeks on the site. In addition, Hughes later shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood for re-shoots. The cast and crew knew about the nuclear tests—there are pictures of Wayne holding a Geiger counter during production—but the link between exposure to radioactive fallout and cancer was poorly understood then.

Powell died of cancer in January 1963, only a few years after the picture’s completion. Hayward, Wayne, and Moorehead all died of cancer in the mid to late 1970s. Cast member actor John Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991. Pedro Armendáriz was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1960 and committed suicide after he learned it was terminal. Skeptics point to other factors such as the wide use of tobacco—Wayne and Moorehead in particular were heavy smokers—and the notion that cancer resulting from radiation exposure does not have such a long incubation period. The cast and crew totaled 220. 91 developed some form of cancer by 1981 and 46 had died of it by then.[1] Dr. Robert Pendleton, professor of biology at the University of Utah, stated, “With these numbers, this case could qualify as an epidemic. The connection between fallout radiation and cancer in individual cases has been practically impossible to prove conclusively. But in a group this size you’d expect only 30 some cancers to develop...I think the tie-in to their exposure on the set of The Conqueror would hold up in a court of law.”[


73 posted on 01/10/2010 12:26:39 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: RebelTXRose

74 posted on 01/10/2010 12:27:22 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: csmusaret

“Two of the very best westerns ever made; Red River and The Searchers.”

One of my wife’s favorite comments, “You’re watching The Searchers AGAIN?”.


75 posted on 01/10/2010 12:28:46 PM PST by dljordan (Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: JoeProBono

12 cents for a comic book. Boy those where the days.


76 posted on 01/10/2010 12:28:54 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: JoeProBono

My favorite line “Yer’ beautiful in yer’ wrath”. An absolutely terrible movie.


77 posted on 01/10/2010 12:30:18 PM PST by dljordan (Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: JoeProBono

Great movie. I have the dvd.Best naval battle on film,Battleships(Jap)heavy cruisers (ours) slugging it out. Our ships got wacked,but it is still good.


78 posted on 01/10/2010 12:35:07 PM PST by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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To: mware

In the historical epic The Conqueror, John Wayne stars as Temujin, better known as Genghis Khan. Red-haired Susan Hayward costars as Bortai, the Tartar princess whom Temujin claims as the spoils of battle. Eventually, Bortai’s hatred for her captor metamorphoses into love, while Temujin’s hordes lay claim to the entire Gobi Desert. 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


79 posted on 01/10/2010 12:35:22 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: goat granny; All

goat granny was wrong, googled Hondo, it was J.Wayne. I should know better than to question Freepers.....me bad


80 posted on 01/10/2010 12:38:53 PM PST by goat granny
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