My Top Ten John Wayne Films (in historical order)
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- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.Classy John Ford film which made Wayne a star.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsRay MillandJohn WaynePaulette GoddardFlorida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.The young Wayne in his prime in vivid technicolor. A lavish, fast-paced Cecil B DeMille film pivoting on strong emotions and action. Wayne has his best "villain" role. Out of the rut for Wayne.
- DirectorsHoward HawksArthur RossonStarsJohn WayneMontgomery CliftJoanne DruDunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.One of the Duke's best roles as the grim Tom Dunson in a large-scale Howard Hawks epic western.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBarry FitzgeraldA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.Wayne's goes romantic for John Ford with Maureen O'Hara his best ever vis-a-vis.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.Wayne's best ever role as the obsessed Ethan Edwards. John Ford is at his visual best.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn WayneDean MartinRicky NelsonA small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.The Duke plays it close to the vest while Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, and Walter Brennan carry the load with colorful performances.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJames StewartJohn WayneVera MilesA senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.Complex John Ford western which both sums up and comments on the western myth. The Duke has his best co-stars in James Stewart and Lee Marvin.
- DirectorsKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard BurtonThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.A vast, sweeping epic about D-Day. The Duke is only one of many stars, but the best war film he appeared in.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneKim DarbyGlen CampbellA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in the old American West.The Duke finally gets an Oscar for this colorful, over-the-top role.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsJohn WayneLauren BacallRon HowardA dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.The Duke goes out in style.
