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Favorite John Wayne movie

wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
It's the Duke's birthday today. What's your favorite John Wayne movie?
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    OK What's Your favotite Duke movie.
    Mine #1 is The Searchers.
    Best Western ever made
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    They were all good (even the 'Singing Sandy' movies). The Searchers is not just the best western but the best movie ever made.

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    I am partial to Big Jake, Hatari is a close second and although it really is not a JW movie The Longest Day. My 2 cents
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Searchers.
    McQ.........."Just funnin', son. Just funnin'"

    Mudge the ex-geezer

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1. The Quiet Man. "If you count to three mister, you'll never hear the man count ten".

    2. The Green Berets

    IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.
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  • PDF.44PDF.44 Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Red River (1948)
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Cowboys.....

    True Grit.......Fill your Hand you SOB....

    The Green Berets.....


    Thanks for straightening me out there Mudge.

    W81 the confused...



    Edited by - william81 on 04/18/2002 20:52:50
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Red River.......the best.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    William81.....before any of the "Duke" aficiandos jump on ya'....I'll do it. I jump softer....
    "Fill yore hand, you sonofabitch." is from True Grit.

    Mudge the gentle

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So many to choose from. The Searchers of course. True Grit of course. The Quiet Man of course. I always liked The Shootist for sentimental reasons if nothing else.
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best overall, The Quiet Man
    Best WWII, Sands of iwo Jima
    Best Civil War, The Undefeated "windage and elevation Mrs Langdon"
    Best no one has heard of, The Sea Chase
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    The Alamo closely followed by Big Jake.

    "We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*

    **Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I kinda liked The Commancheros and I also liked McClintock, Neither is his very best (The Searchers), but both are a lot of fun.

    Note to Mudge (to be read in your best John Wayne impression): Pilgrim, jumpin' gentle is for sissies...

    He Dog the stern



    Edited by - He Dog on 04/18/2002 18:26:15
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  • mdcacmdcac Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    clearly Rio Bravo. it was on last night
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I lean towards The Green Berets because I'm in the Army. If I had to step "out of the uniform" I'd have to go with Rooster Cogburn.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can't decide which is the best....but here is some interesting reading and his movie career:



    True Grit (1969)
    The Green Berets (1968)
    El Dorado (1967)
    The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
    The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
    Circus World (1964)
    How the West Was Won (1962)
    Hatari! (1961)
    The Horse Soldiers (1959)
    The Wings of Eagles (1957)
    Trouble Along the Way (1953)
    The Alamo
    The War Wagon
    Wyoming Outlaw
    Winds of the Wasteland
    Without Reservations
    Tycoon
    Wake of the Red Witch
    West of the Divide
    Westward Ho
    Blood Alley
    The Searchers
    The Undefeated
    Back to Bataan
    Island in the Sky
    Donovan's Reef
    In Harm's Way
    The Sea Chase
    Allegheny Uprising
    Big Jim McLain
    Two * Law
    The Longest Day
    Seven Sinners
    North to Alaska
    They Were Expendable
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    The Barbarian and the Geisha
    McQ
    Brannigan
    Rooster Cogburn
    McLintock!
    Rio Bravo
    30, Still Single: Contemplating Suicide
    The Comancheros
    The Range Feud
    Legend of the Lost
    Chisum
    The High and the Mighty
    Cast a Giant Shadow
    Fort Apache
    Jet Pilot
    Baby Face
    Chesty
    Rio Grande
    The Conqueror
    Big Jake
    The Cowboys
    The Train Robbers
    Cahill, United States Marshal
    The Quiet Man
    I Married a Woman
    Adventure's End
    Arizona
    Angel and the Badman
    The Big Stampede
    The Big Trail
    Red River
    Blue Steel
    Born to the West
    California Straight Ahead
    Conflict
    Dakota
    Dark Command
    The Dawn Rider
    The Desert Trail
    The Fighting Seabees
    The Fighting Kentuckian
    Flame of the Barbary Coast
    Flying Leathernecks
    Flying Tigers
    The Shootist
    Rio Lobo
    In Old California
    In Old Oklahoma
    King of the Pecos
    Lady and Gent
    Lady For a Night
    Lady From Louisiana
    A Lady Takes a Chance
    The Lawless Frontier
    The Lawless Nineties
    Lawless Range
    The Life of Jimmy Dolan
    The Long Voyage Home
    The Lonely Trail
    The Lucky Texan
    Maker of Men
    The Man From Monterey
    The Man From Utah
    Men Are Like That
    Men Without Women
    Haunted Gold
    His Private Secretary
    Hondo
    The Hurricane Express
    'Neath the Arizona Skies
    The New Frontier
    The Night Riders
    Operation Pacific
    The Oregon Trail
    Overland Stage Raiders
    Pals of the Saddle
    Paradise Canyon
    Pittsburgh
    Rainbow Valley
    Randy Rides Alone
    Reap the Wild Wind
    Red River Range
    Reunion in France
    Ride Him Cowboy
    Riders of Destiny
    Sagebrush Trail
    Salute
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Santa Fe Stampede
    Sea Spoilers
    The Shadow of the Eagle
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    The Shepherd of the Hills
    Somewhere in Sonora
    The Spoilers
    Stagecoach
    The Star Packer
    Tall in the Saddle
    The Telegraph Trail
    Texas Cyclone
    Texas Terror
    Three Faces West
    Three Girls Lost
    Three Godfathers
    Three Texas Steers
    The Three Musketeers
    The Trail Beyond
    The Fighting Kentuckian
    Angel and the Badman
    The High and the Mighty
    China Doll
    Bullfighter and the Lady
    Island in the Sky
    The Alamo



    John Wayne Biography

    John Wayne, one of the cinema's greatest stars, is also one of the cinema's greatest problems. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit has overshadowed his career to such an extent that it is almost impossible for viewers and writers to separate Wayne the legend from Wayne the actor and Wayne the man. 5 As Marion Michael Morrison, he played football for USC and held several behind-the-scenes jobs at Fox before moving in front of the cameras in the late 1920s in a series of bit roles. Director John Ford, who had befriended "Duke" Wayne, recommended him for the lead in Raoul Walsh's 1930 western epic, "The Big Trail." But stardom did not materialize and Wayne spent the rest of the decade slogging through a series of low-budget oaters whose meager budgets and rapid shooting schedules did little to sharpen his acting skills. Still, even in the unsophisticated world of the Poverty Row studios, his easygoing authority and physical presence could command attention. 5 John Ford gave Wayne another career break in 1939 by casting him as the Ringo Kid in "Stagecoach," thus rescuing the actor from a life in serials and cheap action pictures. The role propelled Wayne into the top ranks of box-office stars and during the 1940s his legend began to take shape. Excused from military service because of physical ailments, Wayne became the film industry's exemplar of the hard-bitten, decisive soldier who could be compassionate when necessary. Wartime releases such as "Flying Tigers" (1942), "The Fighting Seabees" (1944) and "Back to Bataan" (1945) placed Wayne squarely in the larger-than-life, heroic mold. 5 But it was the movies he made at the end of the decade that established him as an actor of merit, something more than just a star of tremendous stature. Howard Hawks emphasized the willful side of Wayne's screen persona, taking it to extremes in "Red River" (1948). As the inflexible Tom Dunson, Wayne was able to eschew mock heroics and concentrate on the psychology of a man obsessed. Giving an uncompromisingly hard-edged performance, Wayne created a difficult, unlikable, yet compelling character. Two other John Ford films from the period gave Wayne the opportunity for greater depth--"Fort Apache" (1948) and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949)--the latter a particularly moving portrait of a man and an era reaching a turning point. 5 For most of the 1950s and 60s Wayne ambled through a number of mediocre pictures, standard westerns and action movies made watchable, and financially successful, because of his participation. When the script was poor and the role ill-considered, the results could be disatrous: witness "The Conqueror" (1956), which featured the unfortunate Duke as Genghis Khan. But with a carefully tailored part and a director at the top of his form, Wayne always rose to the occasion--"Rio Bravo" (1959) for Hawks, and "The Searchers" (1956) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) ""for Ford. "The Searchers," now considered by many to be Ford's greatest picture, also features Wayne's best performance, perhaps because in the driven character of Ethan Edwards viewers can negotiate their private terms with Wayne the man, super-patriot and defender of the conservative faith. Ethan is a grotesque figure, the essence of patriarchy, a victim of his personal prejudices and blinded by an extremist code. But at the same time his skill and tenacity are admirable. Finally, one must feel compassion for him, realizing that he will never be integrated into the mainstream, will never be thought of in terms of human scale. Understanding the character of Ethan helps demystify Wayne the icon. 5 Although he won the 1969 Best Actor Oscar for "True Grit," a light-hearted if not particularly impressive performance, Wayne's best role in his last decade on screen was also his last. In "The Shootist" (1976) he played a dying gunman who is just beginning to understand his own life and legend. It was the perfect elegy for Wayne, who was himself dying of cancer, and a role which he invested with a touching simplicity and directness--the hallmarks of both his acting career and personal popularity.
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Varmint Mist....you beat me to it..when the Duke rips down the Nazi rag and hoists the Imperial German Battle Ensign and turns his freighter into the pursuing British cruisers in the Sea Chase I still get chills. Other than the "Sea Chase" would have to say the "Cowboys" as most inspirational film.....and the payback in the "Cowboys" is great. Beach
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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll go with mcneely and varmintmist on this one.Many good flicks,just really like the quiet man.

    Have guns,will travel
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...
    but then Lee Marvin stole the show!

    .218

    Did sombody say somethin` about bees?
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  • gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt; I dont care what any one here says You are all right.
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  • PiadeaPiadea Member Posts: 146 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    His last- "The Shootist"
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt--The length of the entire list of movies in which The Duke has starred doesn't quite hit you until you actually see their titles all in one place. Thank you for the info on our fellow Iowan.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • oldfriendsoldfriends Member Posts: 167 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt, Thanks for the post. I agree with idsman, great. It is hard to say which is the best and hard to say which is my favoriite. One had a profound affect on my life. I don't know where I would be if it were not for the movie, the book, and the song. (Of course, a Colonel leading a combat patrol, a little far fetched.)

    Life is Tough!It's Tougher if You're Stupid
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    My favorite is "Big Jake." Adventuring man turned rich cowman turned adventuring man risks all to rescue a grandson he has never seen and avenge a bloody attack on his ranch. Sam Sharpnose threw in on the deal without question, and lost his life. Where does one make friends like that?

    "No matter what happens...no matter who else gets killed...I'm gonna blow your head off!"

    Another favorite is "True Grit."

    I like "The Searchers," unusual in the starkness of the scenery and hopeless feeling about the mission.


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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Shootist

    The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
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  • gars320gars320 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1. "The Searchers"
    2. "McClintock"
    3. "Sands Of Iwo Jima" For the greatest all time movie line ever,
    "I'll do the mastermindin' around here. If you're nervous count your toes"
    And I'll bet I've used that line more than the Duke ever did.

    GML
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was going to answer "The Shootist", But there are too many on that list I haven't seen yet. Time to start renting, I'll answer when I'm done seeing them all.

    Woods

    How big a boy are ya?
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    John Wayne?

    John Wayne!?

    John Wayne!?!?

    He's a little girl. Eastwood is the man!!!

    (Let the pie fly!)

    Stand And Be Counted
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  • SCREWEDUPSCREWEDUP Member Posts: 60 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ALL HIS MOVIES WERE GREAT, PERSONALLY I LIKE BIG JAKE FOR THE INTERACTION WITH HIS SONS. PLUS , THEY ALL HAVE SOME COOL NEW GUNS THEY GET TO USE.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had forgotten about Sea Chase. Lana Turner, Jim Arness, Lyle Boettger.
    Green Berets was OK, but I have a problem with a line from the song....."Fearless men, who JUMP AND DIE.

    Maybe, if they used a parachute.......
    "Just funnin', son. Just funnin'."

    I've often wondered why Duke chose the name "The Sons of Katie Elder". for a movie. If my memory serves me. Kate Elder (aka "Big Nose" Kate) was "Doc" Holliday's "companion". Makes ya' wanna' say......HMMMMM!

    Mudge the Duke fan




    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!

    Edited by - mudge on 04/19/2002 12:01:29
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Evil ATF
    Why'd you have to bring up that namby pampy Eastwood.
    He does do good films but couldnt carry a serious role if you put it in a gunny sack. As for toughness the Duke was up and making The Sons Of Katie Elder a few months after the removal of a lung from cancer.
    Rembrant
    30 Still Single . Not familiar with that one when was it made

    Now look this over
    JOHN WAYNE'S FILMOGRAPHY
    1. 1925 Brown of Harvard
    2. 1926 The Great K&A Train Robbery
    3. 1926 Bardelays The Magnificent
    4. 1927 The Drop Kick
    5. 1927 Annie Laurie
    6. 1928 Mother Machree
    7. 1928 Hangmans House
    8. 1928 Four Sons
    9. 1929 Words & Music (S)
    10. 1929 Speakeasy
    11. 1929 Salute
    12. 1929 Noah's Ark
    13. 1929 The Forward Pass
    14. 1929 The Black Watch
    15. 1929 Words & Music (T)
    16. 1930 Men Without Women
    17. 1930 A Rough Romance
    18. 1930 Born Reckless
    19. 1930 Cheer Up & Smile
    20. 1930 The Big Trail
    21. 1931 Girls Demand Excitement
    22. 1931 Three Girls Lost
    23. 1931 Arizona a.k.a. Men Are Like That
    24. 1931 The Deceiver
    25. 1931 Range Feud
    26. 1931 Maker Of Men
    27. 1932 The Voice Of Hollywood
    28. 1932 Shadow Of The Eagle
    29. 1932 Texas Cyclone
    30. 1932 Two * Law
    31. 1932 That's My Boy
    32. 1932 Lady and Gent a.k.a. The Challenger
    33. 1932 The Hurricane Express
    34. 1932 The Hollywood Handicap
    35. 1932 Ride Him Cowboy
    36. 1932 Big Stampede
    37. 1932 Haunted Gold
    38. 1933 Telegraph Trail
    39. 1933 The Three Musketeers
    40. 1933 Central Airport
    41. 1933 Somewhere In Sonora
    42. 1933 His Private Secretary
    43. 1933 The Life Of Jimmy Dolan
    44. 1933 Baby Face
    45. 1933 The Man From Monteray
    46. 1933 Riders Of Destiny
    47. 1933 College Coach
    48. 1933 Sagebrush Trail
    49. 1934 West Of The Devide
    50. 1934 The Lucky Texan
    51. 1934 Blue Steel
    52. 1934 The Man From Utah
    53. 1934 Randy Rides Alone
    54. 1934 The Star Packer
    55. 1934 The Trail Beyond
    56. 1934 The Lawless Frontier
    57. 1934 `Neath Arizona Skies
    58. 1935 Texas Terror
    59. 1935 Rainbow Valley
    60. 1935 The Desert Trail
    61. 1935 The Dawn Rider
    62. 1935 Paradise Canyon
    63. 1935 Westward Ho
    64. 1935 Lawless Range
    65. 1935 The New Frontier
    66. 1936 The Oregon Trail
    67. 1936 Lawless Nineties
    68. 1936 King Of The Pecos
    69. 1936 winds Of The Wastelands
    70. 1936 The Lonely Trail
    71. 1936 The Sea Spoilers
    72. 1936 Conflict
    73. 1937 California Straight Ahead
    74. 1937 I Cover The War
    75. 1937 Idol Of The Crowds
    76. 1937 Adventures End
    77. 1937 Born To The West a.k.a. Helltown
    78. 1938 Pals Of The Saddle
    79. 1938 Overland Stage Raiders
    80. 1938 Santa Fe Stampede
    81. 1938 Red River Range
    82. 1939 Night Riders
    83. 1939 Three Texas Steers
    84. 1939 Wyoming Outlaw
    85. 1939 New Frontier A.k.a. Frontier Horizon
    86. 1939 Stagecoach
    87. 1939 Allegheny Uprising
    88. 1940 Dark Command
    89. 1940 Three Faces West
    90. 1940 Long Voyage Home
    91. 1940 Seven Sinners
    92. 1941 Stars Past & Present
    93. 1941 A Man Betrayed
    94. 1941 Lady From Louisiana
    95. 1941 Shepard Of The Hills
    96. 1941 Lady For A Night
    97. 1942 Reap The Wild Wind
    98. 1942The Spoilers
    99. 1942 In Old California
    100. 1942 Flying Tigers
    101. 1942 Reunion In France
    102. 1942 Pittsburg

    103. 1943 A Lady Takes A Chance
    104. 1943 In Old Oklahoma
    105. !944 The Fighting Seabees
    106. 1945 Tall In The Saddle
    107. 1945 Flame Of The Barbary Coast
    108. 1945 Back To Batann
    109. 1945 They Were Expendable
    110. 1945 Dakota
    111. 1946 Desert Command
    112. 1946 Without Reservations
    113. 1947 Angel & The Badman
    114. 1947 Tycoon
    115. 1948 Fort Apache
    116. 1948 Red River
    117. 1949 3 Godfathers
    118. 1949 Wake Of The Red Witch
    119. 1949 Fighting Kentuckian
    120. 1949 She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
    121. 1949 Sands Of Iwo Jima
    122. 1950 Rio Grande
    123. 1951 Operation Pacific
    124. 1951 Flying Leathernecks
    125. 1952 Big Jim McLain
    126. 1952 The Quiet Man
    127. 1953 Trouble Along The Way
    128. 1953 Island In The Sky
    129. 1953 Hondo
    130. 1954 The High & The Mighty
    131. 1955 Rookie Of The Year (TV)
    132. 1955 The Sea Chase
    133. 1955 Blood Alley
    134. 1956 The Conquerer
    135. 1956 The Searchers
    136. 1957 Wings Of Eagles
    137. 1957 Jet Pilot
    138. 1957 Legend Of The Lost
    139. 1958 I Married A Woman
    140. 1958 Barbarian & The Geisha
    141. 1959 Rio Bravo
    142. 1959 The Horse Soldiers
    143. 1960 The Alamo
    144. North To Alaska
    145. 1961 The Commancheros
    146. 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    147. 1962 Hatari
    148. 1962 The Longest Day
    149. 1962 Flashing Spikes (TV Movie)
    150. 1962 How The West Was Won
    151. 1963 Donavons Reef
    152. 1963 McLintock
    153. 1964 Circus World
    154. 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
    155. 1965 In Harms Way
    156. 1965 Sons Of Katie Elder
    157. 1966 Cast A Giant Shadow
    158. 1967 The War Wagon
    159. 1967 El Dorado
    160. 1968 Green Berets
    161. 1969 Hellfighters
    162. 1969 True Grit
    163. 1969 The Undefeated
    164. 1970 Chisum
    165. 1970 Rio Lobo
    166. 1970 Raquel (TV)
    167. 1971 Big Jake
    168. 1972 The Cowboys
    169. 1972 Cancel My Reservations
    170. 1973 Train Robbers
    171. 1973 Cahill United States Marshal
    172. 1974 McQ
    173. 1975 Brannigan
    174. 1975
    175. Rooster Cogburn And The Lady
    176. 1976 The Shootist
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  • Model 12Model 12 Member Posts: 35 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    BIG JAKE

    "I thought you wuz dead" and "...my fault, your fault, nobody's fault - the boy dies."

    Classic lines.
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