Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won’t pay. Read More »
Tag Archives: John Wayne
Legend of the Lost (1957) Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Adventure, Drama
Paul Bonnard arrives in Timbuktu in search of a guide to escort him into the Sahara desert. Read More »
The New Frontier (1935) Carl Pierson, John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Warner Richmond, Adventure, Western
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. Read More »
Red River Range (1938) George Sherman, John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Western
The Cattlemen’s Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. Read More »
The Shootist (1976) Don Siegel, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Drama, Western
John Books an aging gunfighter goes to see a doctor he knows for a second opinion after another doctor told him he has a cancer which is terminal. Read More »
Hatari! (1962) Howard Hawks, John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Action, Adventure, Drama
John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Read More »
Blood Alley (1955) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Action, Adventure
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local villagers, is “shanghaied” into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. Read More »
Big Jim McLain (1952) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Crime, Drama, History
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) John Ford, John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Western
After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he’s also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort’s commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell. She’s taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Ford, James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Western
When Senator Ransom Stoddard returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty Valance, and Stoddard has nothing to his name left save a few law books. He gets a job in the kitchen at the Ericson’s restaurant and there meets his future wife, Hallie. The territory is vying for Statehood and Stoddard is selected as a representative over Valance, who continues terrorizing the town. When he destroys the local newspaper office and attacks the editor, Stoddard calls him out, though the conclusion is not quite as straightforward as legend would have it.
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