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Tag Archives: John Wayne
The Longest Day (1962) Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton

In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Read More »
They Were Expendable (1945) John Ford, Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed

In the wake of Pearl Harbor’s surprise attack, World War II hero, Lt. John Brickley’s experimental squadron Read More »
Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves Read More »
Idol of the Crowds (1937) Arthur Lubin, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Charles Brokaw

Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Read More »
Operation Pacific (1951) George Waggner, John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond

The submarine USS Thunderfish successfully completes a secret mission to rescue a group of orphans on a remote Pacific island. Read More »
The Conqueror (1956) Dick Powell, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz

In ancient times, the Mongolian warlord Temujin must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father. Read More »
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) William A. Seiter, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger

A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her Read More »
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut

Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Read More »
Hellfighters (1968) Andrew V. McLaglen, John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage Read More »
Tall in the Saddle (1944) Edwin L. Marin, John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, Mystery, Western, Romance

When a stranger arrives at a western city he discovers the rancher who sent him was killed. Read More »
Dakota (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Western

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Read More »
Sea Spoilers (1936) Frank R. Strayer, John Wayne, Nan Grey, William Bakewell, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Read More »
The War Wagon (1967) Burt Kennedy, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Western

Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Read More »
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) George Waggner, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Adventure, Romance, War, Western

Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »