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1) Big Jake
Pub. Date
2003
Summary
Big Jack McCandles, a husband who hasn't seen his wife in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout and a box of money. Spiced with humor and first-class gunfights, this is a vivid depiction of the last days of the wild frontier.
Series
Summary
Returning to the scruffy town of Valentine, Texas, after many months of tracking wanted criminals, Cahill learns that there's been trouble at home as well. The local sheriff and deputy have been murdered by a masked gang of bandits. These outlaws robbed the bank and then disappeared into the hills. Deputizing his elder son, Cahill sets out to routinely track and capture the dangerous desperadoes. Instead, the gritty marshal finds himself up against...
Pub. Date
1999, c1947
Summary
Angel and the badman : An outlaw brying to change his life--wounded, collapses on the dorrstep of a Quaker family. While they nurse him back to health, he begins to fall in love with the daughter. The gunslinger's strive to change his ways is offset by his strong desire to avenge his foster father's murder.
John Wayne on film : A documentary film which takes us through Wayne's legendary film career. From his struggles in the 1930s, to Stagecoach...
10) The Undefeated
Summary
An action-packed western adventure about life after the Civil War. Yankee Colonel John Henry Thomas and Confederate Colonel James Langdon are enemies turned cohorts as they join forces in battling their way out of Mexico.
11) The Cowboys
Pub. Date
1998, c1971
Summary
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
12) The Comancheros
Pub. Date
2003, c1961
Summary
A Texas Ranger works undercover to foil a notorious gang of outlaws.
Pub. Date
c2000
Summary
Texas terror: John Wayne plays a lawman stricken with grief because he believes he was responsible for the death of his friend while chasing bandits. The Duke chooses a lonely life of prospecting, and only the need to rescue his dead friend's daughter from danger brings him around, which leads to the real killer and justice.
The trail beyond: Agreeing to track down a friend's missing brother and niece, John and Marie Ball, the Duke heads north with...
14) Hatari!
Summary
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
15) The Searchers
Summary
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
16) True grit
Formats
Summary
U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
World War II rages across the Pacific and Lt. Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford (John Wayne) is in the thick of it. He evacuates children from enemy-held islands ; oversees the research and development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor ; and prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish, hoping for a chance to aim his improved "tin fish"--Torpedoes - at the hulls of the enemy fleet.
Pub. Date
c2000
Summary
Badly wounded gunman Quirt Evans is taken in and nursed back to health by a Quaker girl and her family. It's love at first sight for her, but the Society of Friends has its work cut out for it in changing Quirt's violent ways, especially with his old enemy, Laredo Stevens, around to make trouble.
20) Hellfighters
Summary
Chance Buckman is a Texan who tames out-of-control oil well infernos in exotic locations around the world. Between blazes, Chance carries the burden for Madelyn, the wife who left him 20 years earlier because of his dangerous lifestyle.
