John Wayne
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The Alamo
(1960)Hollywood heavyweights John Wayne and Richard Widmark star in this historically inaccurate tale of how a handful of Texans defended their mission against a 7,000-strong Mexican army. The climactic battle scenes are stunning.

Hondo
(1953)John Wayne plays Hondo Lane, a cavalry rider who becomes the protector of Angie Lowe as well as a father figure to her boy, Johnny. Angie, determinedly awaiting the return of her husband, refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing danger.

Hatari!
(1962)Director Howard Hawks re-teams with John Wayne for this African-set comedy adventure. Wayne stars as Sean Mercer, head of a group of highly skilled professional game hunters. However, these hunters don't use bullets: they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions - an exciting business that pits man against beast.

Rooster Cogburn
(1975)An adventure-filled follow-up to True Grit, Rooster Cogburn stars John Wayne as the rough-and-tumble lawman and Katharine Hepburn as a missionary who joins him to avenge her father's death.

Rio Lobo
(1970)A former Union Army colonel sets out to settle some old scores and find the two Yankee traitors responsible for the loss of a gold shipment and the death of his best friend. His search leads him to a showdown in the town of Rio Lobo, where he finds a whole community under siege from their own sheriff and a mysterious landowner.

Flying Tigers
(1942)Jim Gordon is the head of a group of American pilots working for the Chinese government against the invading Japanese two years prior to Pearl Harbour. Hothead Woody Jason joins them but despite being a hotshot flyer, he's also a liability. When he causes the death of veteran pilot Hap Smith, the rest ostracise him and only an ultimate sacrifice will wipe the slate clean.

Trouble Along the Way
(1953)A famous football coach uses underhanded means to turn a bankrupt college's team into winners.

The Horse Soldiers
(1959)John Wayne, Constance Towers and William Holden star in this 1863, fact-based story about a Union mission to destroy a railroad junction deep within Confederate territory.

The Wings of Eagles
(1957)John Wayne; Dan Dailey; and Maureen O'Hara star in one of John Ford's most personal films; in which he pays tribute to a man he knew and admired in real life; pioneering World War I naval aviator Frank "Spig" Wead. Although Wead (Wayne) is instrumental in advancing the cause of American air power; he endures a troubled personal life; becoming estranged from his wife; Minnie (O'Hara) after the d...

Sands of Iwo Jima
(1950)A gruff WWII Marine sergeant is despised by his men for his exhausting training regimen but they quickly come to respect his methods when faced with the harsh realities of battle to take Iwo Jima.

Donovan's Reef
(1963)The Duke, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden play navy buddies that made the French Polynesian island of Haleakaloha their post-war paradise. Local headquarters is Donovan's Reef, Wayne's watering hole.

Operation Pacific
(1951)John Wayne stars as a World War II submarine commander hell bent to defeat the entire Japanese military!

3 Godfathers
(1948)John Wayne stars in this touching western about three half-hearted outlaws who go on the run with an orphaned infant they find in the desert.

The High and the Mighty
(1954)John Wayne plays Dan Roman, a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-incommand cockpit assignments, he finds himself scheduled on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying, suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

The Comancheros
(1961)A Texas Ranger is in pursuit of a gang of vicious outlaws who are running guns and whiskey to the Comanches. The gang's megalomaniac leader is a renegade Confederate officer who has hatched an evil scheme to build an empire in Mexico, using the Comanches to attack the Union. The Ranger, assisted only by a local gambler, takes on the powerful outlaw and his henchmen.

The War Wagon
(1967)John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Bruce Dern star in this classic Western about an ex-con who joins forces with a hired gun to steal gold from the corrupt tycoon who double-crossed them both.

Chisum
(1970)The most powerful man in the 1870βs New Mexico Territory battles a ruthless land speculator and corrupt sheriff to keep control of his cattle empire.

The Train Robbers
(1973)A feisty, beautiful widow bands together with three cowboy buddies to recover a cache of gold stolen by her husband and her attempt to clear his son's name.

The Fighting Seabees
(1944)A construction foreman butts heads with a naval commander while building airstrips in the war-torn Pacific.

Cahill: United States Marshal
(1973)John Wayne is a U.S. Marshal beset by family problems in this dramatic western from the creators of "Dirty Harry." Compulsively dedicated to upholding the law, Wayne has neglected his family and now his sons (Gary Grimes of the "Summer of '42" and Clay O'Brien) have taken to a life of crime.