what's your favorite John Wayne movie?

[BigWill]

Mine's "McClintock!".

My #2 is probably "Hellfighters:

#3 "Big Jake".

With Rio Bravo in the top 6 or so.

 

[TRRW#31]

Sands of Iwo Jima

 

[FAST FRED]

"The Shootist."

 

[RomaVicta]

The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
In Harm's Way

 

[accuratehorn]

Red River. "Take 'em to Missouri, Matt!"

 

[PFD]

The Quiet Man
The Searchers
The Sons of Katie Elder
El Dorado

 

[kbrown]

True Grit and Big Jake

 

[TxStHorn]

Big Jake

I really like the metaphor scene of the old giving way to the new industrial age, where Jake still has his horses and pack gear, being passed by the Rangers in their "new velocipies."

 

[Squall]

my little brother watched Rio Bravo constantly, so that's my sentimental pick

 

[smwhorn]

Rio Bravo
Sons of Katie Elder

 

[Mesohorny]

1) The Searchers
2) Red River
3) Liberty Valance
4) Stagecoach
5) The Quiet Man

 

[YoLaDu]

"Girls Demand Excitement"

Wayne's portayal of Peter Brooks, a hard working hard up college student who dislikes women attending college is gritty, yet sublime; playing a sexist whose heart is gradually softened by the wiles of spoiled socialist coed.

 

[I_Dont_Exist]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Hatari!
Rio Bravo
The Shootist
Donovan's Reef
The Long Voyage Home

 

[accuratehorn]

Red River
Stagecoach
The Quiet Man
Liberty Valance

 

[2feathers]

True Grit
The Quiet Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Searchers
Red River
The Shootist
Rio Bravo
Fort Apache
In Harms Way
The Cowboys
Donovan's Reef
The Sons of Katie Elder

My list, FWIW!

 

[1899horn]

John Wayne used to vacation in Acapulco quite a bit and my father (as a young boy) would run into him occasionally swimming at Caleta.

The Quiet one.

 

[Crockett]

McClintock was a great movie as was Chisum. I thinnk his best acting may have come in True Grit. Wayne didn't dominate the movie, but he was terrific in the Longest Day, a movie where a lot of big stars did well in a relatively short time on screen. Not to hijack a thread, but did anybody else think he was a lttle miscast as Ghengis Khan in The Conqueror.

 

[71grad]

John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy:
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande

John Ford always cast actual Native Americans as oppossed to Hollywood Injuns. In "She wore a Yellow Ribbon" PonyThat Walks was played by Chief John Big Tree and Chief Sky Eagle was played by Chief Sky Eagle,

Others on the list would be:
The Searchers
The Quiet Man
Donovan's Reef
The War Wagon

 

[Major Marco]

The Searchers-the quintessential Wayne, from the tough guy persona to the classic sauntering walk (yes, the one Nathan Lane tried so hilariously to imitate in The Birdcage); even background music by the Sons of the Pioneers. Absolute classic John Ford flick and one of the best movies of all time.

 

[TRRW#31]

PFD I should slap myself for not putting the Quiet Man. Not only is it one of my favorite John Wayne movies but one of my favorite movies ever.

 

[the Saint]

In No Particular Order

The Cowboys
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Alamo

 

[buckhorn]

The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Big Trail
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Fort Apache

In short, I find Marion tolerable when he is helmed by a great director.

 

[bevo barry]

Big Jake.

"I thought you wuz dead".

 

[NickDanger]

Not hardly.

 

[ThornintheHorn]

The Green Berets (surprised noone has mentioned that!)
The Shootist
True Grit
Rooster Cogburn

 

[2feathers]

I don't know why nobody else didn't mention "Green Berets", but I know why I didn't.

 

[Bevo-Stevo]

The Searchers.....end of debate,

Reverend: "We'll do it my way, Ethan. And that's an order."

Ethan: "Yes, sir. But if you're wrong, don't ever give me another."

Quintessential JW line.

Waco Kid is another great JW movie....with Jean Arthur.