Movies starring John Wayne

Biography: 
John Wayne (born Marion Morrison) was the son of pharmacist Clyde Morrison and his wife Mary. Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern California, where they tried ranching in the Mojave Desert. Until the ranch failed, Marion and his younger brother Robert E. Morrison swam in an irrigation ditch and rode a horse to school. Wh ...  show all 

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: John Wayne | John Agar | Forrest Tucker | Wally Cassell | James Brown | Richard Webb | Arthur Franz | James Holden | Peter Coe | Richard Jaeckel | William Murphy | George Tyne | Hal Baylor | John McGuire | Martin Milner
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker’s from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker’s CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker’s increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker’s relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima.

Big Jake (1971)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: John Wayne | Richard Boone | Patrick Wayne | Christopher Mitchum | Bruce Cabot | Bobby Vinton | Glenn Corbett | John Doucette | Jim Davis | John Agar | Harry Carey Jr. | Gregg Palmer | Roy Jenson | Bill Walker | John McLiam
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

Big Jake McCandles is on the trail on bandits in this action drama that stretches from Texas to Mexico. It’s 1909, and the Old West is giving way to modern times. When the outlaw gang led bu vicious John Fain raids Jake’s ranch and kidnaps his 8-year-old grandson, Jake’s wife, whom he hasn’t seen in 18 years, sends for her husband to rescue the boy. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout, a faithful dog, and a box of money. But paying ransom isn’t Jake’s idea of good old frontier justice.

North to Alaska (1960)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: John Wayne | Stewart Granger | Ernie Kovacs | Fabian | Mickey Shaughnessy | Karl Swenson | Joe Sawyer | John Qualen | Stanley Adams | Mark Bailey | Rayford Barnes | Oscar Beregi Jr. | Peter Bourne | Alan Carney | Richard Collier
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George’s fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel (Capucine). Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George’s younger brother, Billy (Fabian). Frankie (Ernie Kovacs) is a con man trying to steal the partner’s gold claim.

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Milland | John Wayne | Paulette Goddard | Raymond Massey | Robert Preston | Lynne Overman | Susan Hayward | Charles Bickford | Walter Hampden | Louise Beavers | Martha O'Driscoll | Elisabeth Risdon | Hedda Hopper | Victor Kilian | Oscar Polk
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Download: DivX iPod 

In 1840, there’s work on the Florida Keys for honest salvagers (like the Claibornes) and outright pirates like King Cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. When Capt. Stuart’s ship is wrecked, Loxi Claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to Charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn’t his fault; company lawyer Steve Tolliver returns with them to Key West to investigate. Tolliver and Stuart’s rivalry for Loxi’s hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of Cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence.

Hondo (1953)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: John Wayne | Geraldine Page | Ward Bond | Michael Pate | James Arness | Rodolfo Acosta | Leo Gordon | Tom Irish | Lee Aaker | Paul Fix | Rayford Barnes | Frank McGrath | Morry Ogden | Chuck Roberson
Directors: John Farrow
Download: DivX iPod 

Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Lane has a run-in with Angie’s reprobate husband and is forced to kill him, not knowing who he is. Vittorio captures Lane and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that Lane is her husband, unaware that Lane has killed her real husband. In order to protect her from a forced marriage with one of the Apache, Lane reluctantly goes along with the lie, though he knows the truth must eventually come out, to Vittorio and to Angie, both.