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Most Underrated John Wayne movies.

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By:  John Russell  •  4 years ago  •  4 comments


Most Underrated John Wayne movies.
 

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I saw a couple people say they are John Wayne fans , so here is a topic along those lines. 

What do you think are a couple John Wayne movies that you like and think are under rated when people talk about the Duke's best films. I'll help you out a little. Here is a list of all John Wayne's feature films post 1940

1940 Seven Sinners Lt. Dan Brent Tay Garnett aka   Cafe of the Seven Sinners   (UK re-issue title) [137]
1941 A Man Betrayed Lynn Hollister John H. Auer aka   Citadel of Crime   (UK title) and   Wheel of Fortune   (TV title) [138]
1941 Lady from Louisiana John Reynolds Bernard Vorhaus [139]
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills Matt Matthews Henry Hathaway [140] [141]
1942 Lady for a Night Jack Morgan Leigh Jason [142]
1942 Reap the Wild Wind Capt. Jack Stuart Cecil B. DeMille [143]
1942 The Spoilers Roy Glennister Ray Enright [144] [145]
1942 In Old California Tom Craig William C. McGann [146] [147]
1942 Flying Tigers Jim Gordon David Miller [148]
1942 Reunion in France Pat Talbot Jules Dassin aka   Mademoiselle France   (UK title) [149]
1942 Pittsburgh Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham Lewis Seiler [150]
1943 A Lady Takes a Chance Duke Hudkins William A. Seiter [151] [152]
1943 In Old Oklahoma Dan Somers Al Rogell aka   War of the Wildcats   (re-issue title) [153] [154]
1944 The Fighting Seabees Wedge Donovan Edward Ludwig [155]
1944 Tall in the Saddle Rocklin Edwin L. Marin [156] [157]
1944 Flame of Barbary Coast Duke Fergus Joseph Kane [158] [159]
1945 Back to Bataan Col. Joseph Madden Edward Dmytryk [160]
1945 They Were Expendable Lt. Rusty Ryan John Ford [161]
1945 Dakota John Devlin Joseph Kane [162] [163]
1946 Without Reservations Rusty Thomas Mervyn LeRoy [164]
1947 Angel and the Badman Quirt Evans James Edward Grant Also producer [165] [166]
1947 Tycoon Johnny Munroe Richard Wallace [167]
1948 Red River Thomas Dunson Howard Hawks [168] [169]
1948 Fort Apache Capt. Kirby York John Ford [170] [171]
1948 3 Godfathers Robert Marmaduke Hightower John Ford [172] [173]
1948 Wake of the Red Witch Capt. Ralls Edward Ludwig [174]
1949 The Fighting Kentuckian John Breen George Waggner [175] [176]
1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Capt. Nathan Brittles John Ford [177] [178]
1949 Sands of Iwo Jima Sgt. John M. Stryker Allan Dwan [179]
1950 Rio Grande Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke John Ford [180] [181]
1951 Operation Pacific "Duke" Gifford George Waggner [182]
1951 Flying Leathernecks Major Dan Kirby Nicholas Ray [183]
1952 The Quiet Man Sean Thornton John Ford Also second unit director although he was uncredited [184]
1952 Big Jim McLain Big Jim McLain Edward Ludwig Also producer [185]
1953 Trouble Along the Way Steve Aloysius Williams Michael Curtiz [186]
1953 Island in the Sky Capt. Dooley William A. Wellman Also producer [187]
1953 Hondo Hondo Lane John Farrow Also producer [188] [189]
1954 The High and the Mighty Dan Roman William A. Wellman [190]
1955 The Sea Chase Capt. Karl Ehrlich John Farrow [191]
1955 Screen Directors Playhouse Mike Cronin John Ford TV series (Episode: " Rookie of the Year ")
1955 Blood Alley Captain Tom Wilder William A. Wellman Also producer [192]
1956 The Conqueror Temüjin   (Genghis Khan) Dick Powell [193]
1956 The Searchers Ethan Edwards John Ford [194] [195]
1957 The Wings of Eagles Frank "Spig" Wead John Ford [196]
1957 Jet Pilot Colonel Jim Shannon Josef von Sternberg [197]
1957 Legend of the Lost Joe January Henry Hathaway [198]
1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha Townsend Harris John Huston [199]
1959 Rio Bravo John T. Chance Howard Hawks [200] [201]
1959 The Horse Soldiers Col. John Marlowe John Ford [202] [203]
1960 The Alamo Col. David Crockett Himself Also producer [204] [205]
1960 North to Alaska Sam McCord Henry Hathaway [206] [207]
1960 Wagon Train General William Tecumseh Sherman John Ford TV series (Episode: "The Colter Craven Story")
1961 The Comancheros Jake Cutter Michael Curtiz [208] [209]
1962 Alcoa Premiere Marine Sergeant John Ford TV series (Episode: "Flashing Spikes"); credited as Marion Morrison
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Tom Doniphon John Ford [210] [211]
1962 Hatari! Sean Mercer Howard Hawks [212]
1962 The Longest Day Lt. Col.  Benjamin H. Vandervoort Ken Annakin Andrew Marton Bernhard Wicki [213]
1962 How the West Was Won Gen.  William Tecumseh Sherman John Ford
Henry Hathaway
George Marshall 		[214] [215]
1963 Donovan's Reef Michael Patrick Donovan John Ford [216]
1963 McLintock! George Washington McLintock Andrew V. McLaglen [217] [218]
1964 Circus World Matt Masters Henry Hathaway aka   The Magnificent Showman   (UK title) [219]
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told The Centurion ( Longinus ) George Stevens [220]
1965 In Harm's Way Capt. Rockwell Torrey Otto Preminger [221]
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder John Elder Henry Hathaway [222] [223]
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow Gen. Mike Randolph Melville Shavelson Also uncredited co-executive producer [224]
1966 El Dorado Cole Thornton Howard Hawks [225] [226]
1967 The War Wagon Taw Jackson Burt Kennedy [227] [228]
1968 The Green Berets Col. Mike Kirby Himself
Ray Kellogg 		[229]
1968 Hellfighters Chance Buckman Andrew V. McLaglen [230]
1969 True Grit Rooster Cogburn Henry Hathaway [231] [232]
1969 The Undefeated Col. John Henry Thomas Andrew V. McLaglen [233] [234]
1970 No Substitute for Victory Narrator Robert F. Slatzer
1970 Chisum John Chisum Andrew V. McLaglen [235] [236]
1970 Rio Lobo Col. Cord McNally Howard Hawks [237] [238]
1970 Swing Out, Sweet Land Himself Stan Harris
1970 Harry Jackson: A Man and His Art Narrator N/A Short documentary
1971 Big Jake Jacob McCandles George Sherman Also uncredited executive producer [239] [240]
1972 The Cowboys Wil Andersen Mark Rydell [241] [242]
1972 Cancel My Reservation Himself Paul Bogart
1973 The Train Robbers Lane Burt Kennedy Also uncredited executive producer [243] [244]
1973 Cahill, United States Marshal Deputy U.S. Marshal J.D. Cahill Andrew V. McLaglen aka   Cahill   (UK title); also uncredited executive producer [245] [246]
1974 McQ Det. Lt. Lon "McQ" McHugh John Sturges [247]
1975 Brannigan Lt. James Brannigan Douglas Hickox [248]
1975 Rooster Cogburn Rooster Cogburn Stuart Millar [249] [250]
1976 The Shootist John Bernard Books Don Siegel [251] [252]
1977 Star Wars Garindan (synthesized voice) George Lucas [253]
1993 La Classe américaine George Abitbol Michel Hazanavicius Dominique Mézerette Release posthumously



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JohnRussell
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1  author  JohnRussell    4 years ago

I would say John Wayne's most underrated movies were 

They Were Expendable, a movie made at the end of WW2 which was about the early days of the war as experienced by a PT boat squadron in the Philippines.   John Ford patriotic sentimentality at its finest. 

The Alamo , John Wayne's interpretation of the famous siege in San Antonio Texas is not very good history, but as an ode to brotherhood and fighting for a lost cause I think it makes it's point well. 

In Harm's Way, another movie about the early days of WW2, mainly told as soap opera. The sprawling story plays like a filmed novel, with multiple characters having their personal stories fleshed out and integral to the plot.  Wayne plays the captain of a US Navy destroyer which takes part in the Pearl Harbor action and beyond. 

North To Alaska ,  fun movie about gold mining in Alaska in the 1890's. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
2  author  JohnRussell    4 years ago

They Were Expendable

The Alamo

In Harm's Way

North To Alaska

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
3  author  JohnRussell    4 years ago
Of the 164 movies he made in his long and brilliant career, including the twenty four he did with John Ford, True Grit is perhaps the least Oscar-worthy in terms of pure cinema. However, for his long-overdue recognition—17 of the films he appeared in were among the 100 highest-grossing films of all time, collec- tively grossing more than $400,000,000 (in twentieth-century dollars), and since 1951 he had consistently placed among the top ten box-office stars—this was the one Hollywood chose to acknowledge Wayne’s great contribution to American movies.
His astonishing body of work, those 164 movies over a fifty-year span, where he upheld not just the law of the land but “the American way,” defined him as Holly- wood’s definitive Indian-fighting (and later on Indian-defending), two-fisted, six- gunned, wagon-trained, swinging-bar-doored, maiden-preserving, democracy- defending all-American hero, the most enduring on-screen symbol of the vanishing prairie. And, although he was never in the military, he fought America’s enemies in World War II with patriotic propaganda films that came complete with recruiting stations set up in theater lobbies. He was an avowed enemy of Communism and especially American Communists. At the height of his career, he set about to rid Hollywood of both and did a fairly effective job. 
from the book  American Titan : Searching For John Wayne  by Marc Eliot
 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
4  Buzz of the Orient    4 years ago

I've seen a lot of his movies, and he always seemed to make the characters into John Wayne, rather than the individuals he was supposed to be depicting.  The reason I have chosen Paul Muni to have been my favourite actor is because he virtually BECAME the characters he depicted, making them totally believable. 

I live in the city where the real Flying Tigers were based and have toured the Flying Tigers museum which was once the home of General Stilwell, and was where I met an actual Chinese Flying Tiger pilot who flew cargo planes "over the hump" (the mountains) to Burma.  The movie was not filmed here, though, it was filmed entirely in the USA..  

 
 
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