What is your favorite John Wayne movie?

[TheHobbyist]

Lately, i've been watchin' a few Westerns when I have a moment of quiet.

I'd have to say, John Wayne has got to be one of my favorite actors of all time.

So, what is your favorite John Wayne movie, quote, excerpt, et cetera?


"...where the river is winding...big nuggets their finding...North to Alaska..." - Johnny Horton, in North to Alaska

Way up Noooooorth...

North To Alaska ~ Johnny Horton - YouTube

 

[keith44spl]

"Big Jake"

 

[dmar]

The Searchers, followed by The Shootist.

 

[TheHobbyist]

I don't recall ever seeing "The Searchers" will have to check it out. The Shootist is a classic!

 

[QuickDrawMcGraw]

.. oooooo' ... tough one!
Guess I'll go with "True Grit"
... "Fill your hands you Sonofabitch!"


~ Joe

 

[Gatofeo]

McQ (1974) in which Wayne plays a modern-day detective in Seattle. Most of it was filmed around Seattle. I particularly like it because Wayne is armed with a suppressed MAC-10 machine pistol in some scenes. An unusual weapon at the time, and doubly unusual to have it in John Wayne's hands.

The Shootist (1976). A fine film I enjoyed because it's not the stereotypical Wayne. The cast is great too: Lauren Bacall, Richard Boone, Ron Howard, Jimmy Stewart, Hugh O'Brian, Harry Morgan John Carradine and the woman who never knew she stole my heart when I was a teen: Sheree North (RIP Sheree).

 

[EB71]

Conservative humorist Florence King once defined a conservative movie as "any movie where John Wayne says 'we're going in' or 'we're moving out'."

 

[Smith357]

The Quiet Man

Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady.

 

[TAROMAN]

While they're all great, it would have to be The Fighting Seabees.
Must have seen it at least a dozen times as as the TV station in Gulfport, MS (home of the Atlantic Fleet Seabee base) showed it regularly.

 

[REM 3200]

The Shootist. I never really cared for The Searchers.

 

[Fredo Batali]

"The Green Berets" of course (We woke up to that theme song every day in Phase I SFQC). Seconded by "The Shootist".

De Oppresso Liber

 

[Alpo]

El Dorado. I know that Rio Bravo is basically the same movie, but James Caan's Mississippi makes the flick.

 

[Alpo]

Although I do like the gunfight between Rooster Cogburn and Sheriff Deadeye.

Red Skelton And John Wayne - YouTube

 

[Bert Man]

She Wore A YellowRibbon

 

[Faulkner]

True Grit . . . I can never get enough of the final shootout with Lucky Ned Pepper and his gang.

 

[GKC]

Is there a John Wayne movie that isn't my favorite?

Since you didn't limit it to westerns, I will say "The Quiet Man." Considering westerns only, I will say "The Shootist."

I was in a gun shop this afternoon, and one of the employees was actually wearing a John Wayne gold signature edition Vaquero in .45 Colt, blue, in a custom made gun belt. (We need a drooling icon...) He said he had had it for several years and had never fired it. Why in the heck he was carrying it was beyond me...but it's his gun and he can carry it if he wants to!

 

[Foodfuzz]

So many to choose from." Angel and the Badman," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "The Quiet Man"," Rooster Cogburn", "The Shootist", "The Searchers," "True Grit." It's hard to pick just one.

 

[msinc]

My favorite is "They Were Expendable" My father, an Army veteran of WWII was discharged after the war but the Army came and got him and quarantined him with several other guys that tested positive for malaria. He was in the pacific theater and contracted the disease. The Army sent him to an island off Miami, Fla. He said they sat on the beach and watched while many of the scenes in that movie were filmed. I remeber him saying they watched with binoculars as the movie was filmed and often caught a glimpse of John Wayne. I remember he said that JW always had a cigarette in his mouth and they would sometimes stop shooting a scene just so the Duke could smoke one. In the end of the movie you can see a PT boat, cant remember if its coming in or going out btu the lighthouse in the scene is the Miami light.

 

[o3rugby1]

Green Berets.

 

[Sprefix]

All of 'em....The Quiet Man first, then the rest.