John Wayne Centennial

I really enjoyed True Grit and Hatari, but my favorite has to be Big Jake.

John Fain: Who are you?
Jake: Jacob McCandles.
John Fain: I thought you were dead.
Jake: Not hardly
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Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles: You can call me Dad, you can call me Father, you can call me Jacob and you can call me Jake. You can call me a dirty old son-of-a-bitch, but if you EVER call me Daddy again, I'll finish this fight
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James McCandles: Do this, do that! I'm gonna do whatever I want!
Sam Sharpnose: You do what he tells you, every time he tells you and we might come through this alive! Might even save the boy. Otherwise you're gonna get yourself killed. Don't matter to me, but you'll probably get him killed too, and that does.
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Y'know, I've never seen the Searchers, Hondo. I did see the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, McClintock, part of the Quiet Man, some of his really old movies when he was afraid of horses, Rooster Cogburn, the one where he was a firefighter, North to Alaska, the Alamo, The Horse Soldiers, Red River...
 
Can't remember which one of the Duke's movies this came from, just that it was a very early B&W one, but it's one of my favorites.

Old woman:"I saw you, I saw you hit that man!"

J.W.:"Yes mam', just as hard as I could"

:D
 
I just saw 'Tall In The Saddle' again, a couple of days ago. That one had George "Gabby" Hayes and Ward Bond in it. It's a pile of fun. Gabby is a hoot. Love all the ones Tizwin mentioned, but Rio Bravo and True Grit are favorites, as well as The Shootist. I'll be watching The Duke all weekend.
 
The Last Confederate said:
Can't remember which one of the Duke's movies this came from, just that it was a very early B&W one, but it's one of my favorites.

Old woman:"I saw you, I saw you hit that man!"

J.W.:"Yes mam', just as hard as I could"

:D
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'Tall in the Saddle'. It's one of his best early days films
 
I love the shootist, true grit, green berets, big jake, in harms way, sands of iwo jima, flying tigers, the alamo, the cowboys was great. There are to many to list.
 
ALL OF THE ABOVE, plus a few dozen more! :D Some might say John Wayne was "just a silver screen hero," but to a helluva lot of us he was a real, honest to God, good, old fashioned American and somebody to look up to. Lets all drink a toast to the Duke tomorrow and remember him fondly. I just hope he's still wearing his Colt in heaven.
 
I watched Stage Coach a few weeks ago with my 82 year old mother. She spent her summers at her grandparents trading post and lodge at Kayenta Arizona. When she was 14 in 1939 the film crew stayed at the lodge when they were filming in Monument Valley. I asked her what she remembered most and she reclled the hard work cooking and cleaning and Ward Bond's practical jokes. I seem to need a good John Wayne fix every few months.
 
The Cowboys was on TNT tonight, Just finished watching it. A very young Robert Caradine is in it. Bruce Dern said of his role in which he kills the Duke, "America hated me but they loved me at Berkley". Roscoe Lee Brown, what a fantastic job he did.
 
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