Search results for "John Wayne"
Hondo

Hondo

Hondo
IMDb: 7
84

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Genre: Western
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
IMDb: 7.7
129

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Big Jim McLain

Big Jim McLain

Big Jim McLain
IMDb: 5.1
90

House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the…

Operation Pacific

Operation Pacific

Operation Pacific
IMDb: 6.6
111

During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all….

Genre: Drama, War
Flying Leathernecks

Flying Leathernecks

Flying Leathernecks
IMDb: 6.3
102

Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined…

Genre: Drama, War
Rio Grande

Rio Grande

Rio Grande
IMDb: 7
105

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops…

Genre: Western
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
IMDb: 7.2
104

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his…

Genre: Western
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima
IMDb: 7
100

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they…

Genre: Drama, War
The Fighting Kentuckian

The Fighting Kentuckian

The Fighting Kentuckian
IMDb: 6.4
100

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette’s exiles plan…

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
IMDb: 6.5
106

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Genre: Drama
Red River

Red River

Red River
IMDb: 7.8
133

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing…

Genre: Western
Fort Apache

Fort Apache

Fort Apache
IMDb: 7.4
125

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form…

Genre: Western
3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers
IMDb: 7
106

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own…

Genre: Western
Tycoon

Tycoon

Tycoon
IMDb: 6.1
128

Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman
IMDb: 6.8
100

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans’ horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family’s home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back…

Without Reservations

Without Reservations

Without Reservations
IMDb: 6.5
107

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don’t know she is the author…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
IMDb: 7.2
135

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy’s…

Genre: Drama, War
Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast
IMDb: 6.2
91

Duke Fergus falls for Ann ‘Flaxen’ Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and…

Genre: Romance, Western
Dakota

Dakota

Dakota
IMDb: 5.9
82

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to…

Genre: Western
Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan
IMDb: 6.6
95

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Genre: Drama, War
Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle
IMDb: 6.9
87

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart…

Genre: Western
The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees
IMDb: 6.4
100

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect…

Genre: Drama, War
A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance
IMDb: 6.3
86

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
In Old Oklahoma

In Old Oklahoma

In Old Oklahoma
IMDb: 6.4
102

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim “Hunk” Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

Genre: Western
The Spoilers

The Spoilers

The Spoilers
IMDb: 6.7
87

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander…

Genre: Drama, Western
Reunion in France

Reunion in France

Reunion in France
IMDb: 6.3
104

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind
IMDb: 6.6
119

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap,…

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh
IMDb: 6.4
91

Charles ‘Pittsburgh’ Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and…

Genre: Drama
In Old California

In Old California

In Old California
IMDb: 6.3
91

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine,…

Genre: Romance, Western
Flying Tigers

Flying Tigers

Flying Tigers
IMDb: 6.7
102

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America’s entry into World War II. Gordon must send…

Genre: Drama, War
The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills
IMDb: 6.9
98

Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred…

Genre: Drama, Western
A Man Betrayed

A Man Betrayed

A Man Betrayed
IMDb: 5.9
82

Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of…

Lady from Louisiana

Lady from Louisiana

Lady from Louisiana
IMDb: 5.8
82

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted…

Genre: Drama
Lady for a Night

Lady for a Night

Lady for a Night
IMDb: 6
88

Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Three Faces West

Three Faces West

Three Faces West
IMDb: 6.1
79

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town,…

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners
IMDb: 6.5
87

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship’s doctor in order to…

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home
IMDb: 6.9
105

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays.

Genre: Drama, War
Dark Command

Dark Command

Dark Command
IMDb: 6.7
94

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air…

Wyoming Outlaw

Wyoming Outlaw

Wyoming Outlaw
IMDb: 5.9
56

Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.

Genre: Western
Three Texas Steers

Three Texas Steers

Three Texas Steers
IMDb: 5.4
56

Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she’s never visited, but for sentimental reasons won’t sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the…

Genre: Western