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Favorite John Wayne Movie

hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
It's the Duke's birthday today. What's your favorite John Wayne movie?
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK What's Your favotite Duke movie.
    Mine #1 is The Searchers.
    Best Western ever made
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  • royc38royc38 Member Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    all of them.
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  • CHGOTHNDERCHGOTHNDER Member Posts: 8,936 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    +1

    PJ

    quote:Originally posted by royc38
    all of them.
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  • tacking1tacking1 Member Posts: 3,844
    edited November -1
    cowboys
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  • WWllVetWWllVet Member Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 97 of them on tape and/or DVD. All are my favorite

    for GOD and COUNTRY

    Vet
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,463 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cowboys, Green Berets....ah heck, I have liked most of the ones I have seen..[:D]
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My personal favorite is "The Quiet Man" The John Wayne Maureen O'Hara combo is unbeatable. "The Green Berets" is also one of my favorites, probably followed by "The Shootist", "True Grit" ,"The Searchers"
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HARMS WAY.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Different moods, different favorites. The Searchers is possibly the best western ever made, but it is about obcession, and I do not watch it often. Sometimes I even like, 'Fill your hand you son of a gripe.' The Cowboys is fine, and so are many others.
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by duckhunter
    HARMS WAY.


    Can't believe I didn't mention that one. should have been among my top picks. i got a thing for patrica o'neal too...she was almost as hot as maureen o'hara.
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  • rongrong Member Posts: 8,459
    edited November -1
    Big Jake
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My favorite line from a John Wayne movie is from The Shootist, when JW is givng Ron Howard the shooting lesson and cautions him to keep the chamber under the hammer empty for safety. Ron Howard asks "But what if you're going out to face somebody?" The Duke replies "Load six if'n your insides tells ya to!"

    When I was a kid playing in the woods with my Benjamin-Sheridan air rifle five pumps would be a standard load. Sometimes we'd joke to each other "pump six if'n your insides tells ya to"
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I had to pick a favorite, it would be In Harms Way today, but could be another one later. He made over a hundred, and I pretty much like them all. The music kinda sucks in some of his early Westerns, but the movies were good.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • sharpshooter039sharpshooter039 Member Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    of the westerns I like a real old one,,,Angel and the Bad Man
    of non-westerns the Green Berets and Hell Fighters
    my wifes is The Quiet man
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Either In Harms Way or They Were Expendable. By the way, did anyone else notice that both of these have PT Boats in them?
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    The Cowboys
    The Shootist
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Big John would've been 99 years old today.
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    I can't believe no one has chosen the movie that made him a star.
    Stagcoach. Sure now days people consider it full of cliches but it was the one everybody copied It started the trend. A big cast with full charecterization. The drunk who pulls himself up to be a hero the fallen gambler with a secret background the prostitute with the heart of gold. The crooked bamker, The wife struggling to reach her husband before the baby comes. the lawman secretly trying to help the wrongly convicted outlaw while still doing his duty, and the Kid a rough and tumble hero who's not bad just misunderstood and framed for a crime he did not commit.
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  • IAMAHUSKERIAMAHUSKER Member Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like every last one of his movies. How about "The man who shot Liberty Valance"
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by IAMAHUSKER
    I like every last one of his movies. How about "The man who shot Liberty Valance"


    One of my favorites. Some might argue that Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart got all the good lines, even though the Duke was supposed to be the real hero.
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  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is that you John Wayne?
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dano, pilgrim that is sacrilege. Somebody ought to knock you down, but I won.t. The hell I won't...
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hughbetcha
    quote:Originally posted by IAMAHUSKER
    I like every last one of his movies. How about "The man who shot Liberty Valance"


    One of my favorites. Some might argue that Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart got all the good lines, even though the Duke was supposed to be the real hero.
    People do not realise that is one of the moviies he died in. Jimmy Stewart is on the way to his funeral and the whole movie is a flashback
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wipala
    quote:Originally posted by hughbetcha
    quote:Originally posted by IAMAHUSKER
    I like every last one of his movies. How about "The man who shot Liberty Valance"


    One of my favorites. Some might argue that Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart got all the good lines, even though the Duke was supposed to be the real hero.
    People do not realise that is one of the moviies he died in. Jimmy Stewart is on the way to his funeral and the whole movie is a flashback


    I've had this discussion with folks who argue Wayne was killed/dies in the movie, when in reality, as you noted, he was dead when it started. I've heard the only movies in which John Wayne actually dies are The Cowboys and The Shootist, but I'm not really sure.
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  • bondaibondai Member Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    McClintock, In Harms Way, The Searchers and the Shootist.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....My fave (at this moment in time) would be "The Shootist". I saw a real early Wayne film late one night, but the title escapes me. My Gawd, man....the duke as a singing cowboy, ala' Hoppy and Roy! It was...just wrong. I kept waiting for Gabby Hayes to limp in tootin' on a harmonica.
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  • FrogbertFrogbert Member Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought of "The Quiet Man" first, but I've got about 30 favorites!
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  • third_shot_flyerthird_shot_flyer Member Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like The Sons of Katie Elder. 'Specially the part where they're arguing about her tombstone.
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  • bondaibondai Member Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by third_shot_flyer
    I like The Sons of Katie Elder. 'Specially the part where they're arguing about her tombstone.




    The part where he hits the guy in the face with the axe handle is pretty good too...It was George Kennedy if memory serves....
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:I've had this discussion with folks who argue Wayne was killed/dies in the movie, when in reality, as you noted, he was dead when it started. I've heard the only movies in which John Wayne actually dies are The Cowboys and The Shootist, but I'm not really sure.

    He was killed in The Long Voyage Home when his ship sank. It happed more than legend indicates.
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  • CJ7nvrstkCJ7nvrstk Member Posts: 678 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Big Jake.
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sands of Iwo Jima, of course. On the ship going over to Vietnam, we had to stencil our name on the back of our utility jackets. On one of my jackets, I stenciled J.M. STRYKER, and burned a cigarette hole where he got shot at the end of the movie.
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  • third_shot_flyerthird_shot_flyer Member Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The part where he hits the guy in the face with the axe handle is pretty good too...It was George Kennedy if memory serves....

    That whack-a-guy-in-the-face motif was reprised by Tommie Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove, too.

    Also, George Kennedy played a real ne'er-do-well in Cahill.

    As a bad guy, I like Ned Pepper, played by Robert Duvall, which takes us back to Lonesome Dove.

    Edited to remove dimwitted mistake.
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  • nyforesternyforester Member Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    True Grit
    Abort Cuomo
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  • JgreenJgreen Member Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hatari!
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  • prangleprangle Member Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey it's Dark Command - The Duke ,Walter Pidgeon,Roy Rogers,Gabby Hayes,Claire Trevor.
    Setting: Eve of the Civil War
    Check it out!
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  • yearofspideryearofspider Member Posts: 1,657 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I liked all of them.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never was one to idolize movie stars but the DUKE was my all time favorite. Wish I had every movie he ever made. I have a large drawing of him hanging over my bed that was drawn by Wipala. Bet most of you guys didn't know Wipala is an artist did you.
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Flying Tigers
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  • glabrayglabray Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let's not forget that John Wayne was simply a Hollywood actor. His job was to make believe that he did heroic things that others actually did.
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