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Posted: 5/28/2021 7:51:52 PM EDT

I’m thinking of having a little John Wayne weekend. What should I watch?

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:52:50 PM EDT

[#1]

Wake of the Red Witch .

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:53:19 PM EDT

[#2]

The shootist
Big jake
Dinovans reef
McClintock
And...

THE QUIET MAN

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:54:07 PM EDT

[#3]

The one where he plays Ming the Merciless.

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:54:25 PM EDT

[#4]

The Shootist
Rio Grand
McClintock
The Alamo
In Harms Way

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:56:30 PM EDT

[#5]

Watching The Sons of Katie Elder right now.

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:56:31 PM EDT

[#6]

Doesn't really matter he plays the exact same character in every one of them

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:56:39 PM EDT

[#7]

McClintock
Donovan's Reef
The Quiet Man
The Horse Soldiers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
(Honorable Mention) Fort Apache

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:57:51 PM EDT

[#8]

The Shootist
Big Jake my #1
Green Berets
El Dorado
And
McQ, luv me some MAC 10 and BHP action.

John Wayne's New Machine Gun | McQ | Warner Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpqcy4f0AFE

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:58:15 PM EDT

[#9]

Quiet man
Horse Soldiers
She wore a yellow ribbon
They were Expendable
The Green Berets(Yeah, campy pro war propaganda, but I liked it.)

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:58:42 PM EDT

[#10]

many good ones to choose from but two I would always link together are Stagecoach and The Shootist as the viewer gets to see the beginning of a career taking off and the graceful finale of it

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:58:52 PM EDT

[#11]

The Angel And The Badman
Stagecoach
Sands Of Iwo Jima
~~The Searchers~~ Rio Bravo
Back To Bataan

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:58:53 PM EDT

[#12]

Eaglebear Singers: John Wayne's Teeth

John Waynes teeth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ctLVlkDWRs

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:59:33 PM EDT

[#13]

Purple lights….In the canyons

Posted: 5/28/2021 7:59:44 PM EDT

[#14]

Hondo
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo
El Dorado

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:00:39 PM EDT

[#15]

Man who shot Liberty Valance is his greatest. All others come after.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:01:14 PM EDT

[#16]

The War Wagon.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:01:28 PM EDT

[#17]

The Searchers
McClintock
The Quiet Man
Sands of Iwo Jima
True Grit

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:03:12 PM EDT

[#18]

The Longest Day
In Harms Way
They Were Expendable
Big Jake
The Searchers

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:03:15 PM EDT

[#19]

Rio Bravo
The War Wagon
The Green Berets
The Longest Day
In Harm's way

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:03:36 PM EDT

[#20]

Rio Bravo was always my favorite

In before someone says they installed two-way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:05:49 PM EDT

[#21]

Damn.. there are some great movies here…l this might be a double weekend.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:06:01 PM EDT

[#22]

Quote History

Quoted:
McClintock
Donovan's Reef
The Quiet Man
The Horse Soldiers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
(Honorable Mention) Fort Apache

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Solid list

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:06:11 PM EDT

[#23]

The War Wagon is on Grit TV now

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:06:29 PM EDT

[#24]

Red River

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:07:28 PM EDT

[#25]

In Harms Way
Sands of Iwo Jima
They Were Expendable
The Shootist
The Searchers

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:09:43 PM EDT

[#26]

Quote History

Quoted:
The Longest Day
In Harms Way
They Were Expendable
Big Jake
The Searchers

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This is the correct list.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:10:08 PM EDT

[#27]

In Harm's Way - Duke's acting even impressed Premeinger.

The Commancheros - Duke and Lee Marvin. Awesome.

The Alamo - Historically laughable but the Flaca speech should be required ARF viewing.

True Grit - Duke's only Oscar. So many quoteable lines. "I always go backwards when I'm backing away!!"

The Quite Man - My Irish grandmother made me watch this every St. Patrick's Day.
Duke, John Ford and a great cast firing on all cylinders.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:10:56 PM EDT

[#28]

All of them. Get started now because it’s going to be a long weekend.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:11:48 PM EDT

[#29]

Quote History

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Doesn't really matter he plays the exact same character in every one of them

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Which is exactly what people want to see.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:13:36 PM EDT

[#30]

Angel and the badman.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:13:37 PM EDT

[#31]

Hard to have a favorite, when he only has the one character.

But, I always liked The Horse Soldiers & Rio Bravo.

And True Grit goes without saying I suppose.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:13:42 PM EDT

[#32]

Island in the Sky
The Fighting Sea Bees
The Cowboys
The Comancheros
The Wings of Eagles
3 Godfathers

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:16:20 PM EDT

[#33]

True Grit
Quiet Man
Rio Bravo
El Dorado
Cavalry trilogy by John Ford. (treat them as one movie)

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:17:13 PM EDT

[#34]

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Doesn't really matter he plays the exact same character in every one of them

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The white Denzel Washington.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:34:37 PM EDT

[#35]

Only one character? I don't know about that. But......just watch John Wayne movies, doesn't matter which one. Pay attention. Think about what you saw on screen after the movie's over. Compare/contrast with the world you see you around you.

And realize that there was a time when most people grew up watching John Wayne movies and thought that what you saw on the screen is completely normal and reasonable.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:40:57 PM EDT

[#36]

Quote History

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Doesn't really matter he plays the exact same character in every one of them

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Posted: 5/28/2021 8:41:47 PM EDT

[#37]

Quote History

Quoted:
Island in the Sky
The Fighting Sea Bees
The Cowboys
The Comancheros
The Wings of Eagles
3 Godfathers

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Took long enough to get the "Cowboys" in the list.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:42:57 PM EDT

[#38]

The Quiet Man
McClintock- Make sure you watch the extended version
The High and the Mighty
The Searchers
The Cowboys
The Shootist

And honorable mention to Stagecoach, starring Claire Trevor. I don’t know what it is about her, but va va voom!

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Posted: 5/28/2021 8:46:31 PM EDT

[#39]

He had some hot lady actresses in many of his movies.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:47:02 PM EDT

[#40]

Quote History

Quoted:
The Searchers
McClintock
The Quiet Man
Sands of Iwo Jima
True Grit

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Good list. For me:

The Searchers
McClintock
True Grit
The Shootist
Rio Lobo

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:49:58 PM EDT

[#41]

"Your fault, my fault, nobody's fault. I'm gonna blow your head off. It's as simple as that"

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:50:13 PM EDT

[#42]

Soms of Katie Elder
Big Jake
The Shootist
True Grit

I'll leave the last one up to you.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:53:54 PM EDT

[#43]

The Searchers
Red River
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
True Grit

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:54:30 PM EDT

[#44]

Chisum
McLintock!
El Dorado
Sands of Iwo Jima
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:55:09 PM EDT

[#45]

I no special order,

The Horse Soldiers
Fort Apache
Rio Bravo
The Green Berets
Flying Tigers

If the OP hadn't asked for just the "top 5" there would be many others.

El Dorado
The War Wagon
The Searchers
Three Godfathers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Hellfighters
Back to Bataan
In Harm's Way
Flying Leathernecks
Sands of Iwo Jima
Reap the Wild Wind
Blood Alley
The Shootist
Big Jake
McQ
Big Jim McClain
Red River
Hondo
Stage Coach
Wings of Eagles
The Quiet Man
The Undefeated
McClintock!
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Alamo

I'll be the outcast and say I didn't much care for True Grit.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:55:49 PM EDT

[#46]

Hellfighters

ETA: beat by 40 seconds.

Posted: 5/28/2021 8:56:13 PM EDT

[#47]

Stagecoach
The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Quiet Man

after that

Flying Leathernecks
Sands of Iwo Jima
They Were Expendable
The Longest Day
In Harms Way