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The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, Red River and the John Ford Cavalry Trilogy shot in Monument Valley are favorites. The Searchers and the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Red River in the top because of John Wayne playing out of his normal character in them.

A couple more of my favorites are The Shepard of The Hills, and The Three Godfathers both early day movies of his.

There are very few John Wayne movies that I do not enjoy.

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I loved all of them. Not real sure about him as Ghengis Khan though!

I'm a big fan, I like almost all of his stuff. Favorites are Stagecoach, Red River, and The Searchers. When I was 12(1954)my father and I were in small restaurant for lunch in the Owens Valley, which was in those days where many western movies were made, and in walks John Wayne! I blurted out, "Dad that's John Wayne." He heard me and came to our to table and greeted us. I completely lost me ability to talk. All I could do was say, "Is it really you?"

This is gold.

Like most, but these two tie for tops:

I'd have to go with the Shootist as my favorite... but it could be because I have that one on DVD and it gets watched quit a bit and never grow tired of it...

Yes, I do. Stagecoach is my all time favorite.

I liked all his movies but Stagecoach has held up over time.

The Cowboys, McClintock, Rooster Cogburn, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katy Elder.

Can't get through The Cowboys without allergy problems most times.

Without a doubt, "Red River" was Wayne's best movie and his acting performance. He should have won Best Actor for his performance as Tom Dunson. I'd go with "The Quiet Man" as his second best. Then maybe "Rio Bravo" although Dean Martin was the better actor.

Most of Wayne's movies were not that good. He rescued most of the bad ones by being John Wayne and not necessarily with his acting skills.

Elvis made some 33 films. Every single one made money. As far as I know, he remains the only actor who has never lost money on a film. Elvis was a much better actor than he was credited. His best acting performance was "King Creole". Producers knew that they could throw together junk, have Elvis star in it, and it'd make money.

Elvis knew he was typecast in stupid movies that required no acting skills, which was his primary motivation for giving up his acting career. During a concert, he once told the audience that they had no clue of his songs, that all he had to do was sing and move his hips and they audience went ecstatic. Elvis became prisoner of his fame. He was immensely gifted and even more so a performer, but Colonel Parker was more concerned with making money than perfecting Elvis's talent; hence, he churned out many records that were beneath his ability. While he did sing gospel because he was devoutly religious, he was, at his essence, rock & roll & R&B. When Elvis did rock, there was no one better.

John Wayne suffered the same fate. Most of his films had no substance and required superficial acting skills. However, Elvis was a far better rock singer than Wayne was an actor.

It terms of acting skills, Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood were better than John Wayne. But John Wayne was John Wayne, and people paid to see John Wayne.

The Aloha from Hawai'i concert, as far as I know, is still the most popular concert of all time. One in four people on Earth saw it Live via satellite. Compare that with modern technology and still no other performer could come close to getting 25% of the world's population as audience.

Watch Elvis live when he was rock & roll:

"Hondo" was also a good Wayne film.

Yep. Crap, I must be gettin' old. I can't remember "Hondo"!?
Best go have a beer and put some Duke flicks on.

The Searchers, The Shootist and True Grit I really enjoy but I have a large collection of his movies and can just pop anyone in the player and watch it. Never can go wrong with a John Wayne movie.

I like this one




And this one quite a bit too.

I have Donovan's Reef and I think Island in the Sky too.

"Island in the sky" is one JW movie you just don't see or hear much about. But, it is a good one.

They are building a new museum in the town he was born in. It's under construction now but this is what it will look like when it's done. kwg

http://johnwaynebirthplace.museum/museum.html

I like his westerns...but The Fighting Seabees was watched as required training when I was with NMCB133 a long time ago.

I still enjoy watching The Shootist, The Cowboys, and True Grit.

Most of his movies are worth watching.