I started watching The Lawless 90's from 1936 last night Those old B westerns were simple, but still better than most , if not all the new stuff.

Yeah they're pretty terrible.

I watchm anyway.

Agreed,it was simple and much better than the new stuff.

I like to watch teevee when I'm not watching teevee

I'm a huge John Wayne fan. Have many of his later westerns on DVD. Big Jake, Rooster Cogburn, True Grit, The War Wagon, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Cowboys, McClintock. Excellent movies all...... But the old B movies suck by any measure.

"Riders of Destiny
by Robert N. Bradbury

Publication date 1933
Usage Public Domain
Topics Romance, Western, John Wayne, George Hayes
Publisher Lone Star Productions "

Full length movie:

https://archive.org/details/RidersofDestiny_

Enjoyed the Sons of Katie Elder last night.
Watching The Shootist as I type.

I've seen a few of the B westerns of the Duke's. Some aren't that bad, but I do enjoy the later "A" list films a lot more.
I've got most of his (my favorites) on DVD, not to mention Fonda, Stewart, Bronson and others. I keep my eyes peeled for films that I enjoy, as almost all the modern films leave me cold.
Good plots and real scenery and stunts compared to recycled plots with overdone violence and computer simulated explosions?
No thanks.
7mm

Weren't all his movies B movies, maybe with the exception of The Shootist.

The Duke was a pretty poor excuse for an actor.

MM

As opposed to the stellar artist on Hollywierd's Silver Screens now? Not to mention the fact that 90% of the are limousine liberal douches flying around in private jets while pushing socialism on us common folk? Very few of them I would cross the street to whiz on if they were on fire.
7mm

John Wayne is one of the best.

If you don’t like John Wayne, there is something wrong with you.

I can't remember the title but he was in the NW Territories working with the mounties. In one scene he was paddling a canoe down a river, wearing a big white hat, and squatting in the canoe wearing SPURS. There wasn't a horse for 100 miles.

Many things are better than what they made in the 30’s but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a Model A, even though you would rather drive a Yukon every day...

Yea really , A true American he was !!!

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon one of the very best Westerns ever.

Ben Johnson's horsemanship WOW!

They were no better or no worse than any other movies of the same era but I do like watching them.
If nothing else he's still in his prime and could really set a horse as opposed to the newer saddle horn hugging Rooster Cogburn era.

Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens we’re both rodeo cowboys. Slim about ended his career riding an elk at a dude ranch in Montana...

I seem to recall reading that he really didn't like horses.

Did seem fond of Spanish ladies and boats. Owned a converted minesweeper?

Paul

Never said anything about not liking him, just that he was a piss poor excuse for an actor; never held a candle to James Stewart, Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin & Robert Shaw, just to name a few.

So please, just don't piss down my neck & tell be it's raining.

MM

The Shootist is a fine example of how great an actor Wayne really was.

Fixed it for you. And yes, It was his best acting role, but even that, plot aside, was not truly overly strong.

Anyone who thinks True Grit or maybe The Searchers, was good acting, surely doesn't know what good acting is.

Doesn't take away from him being a good guy & maybe even a great American.

MM

Watch it free on YouTube. That was back when black folks acted right, LOL.

I never said John Wayne was the best ever, but the Duke was The DUKE.

If you want to criticize it would be his war record, or lack of.

Bottom line, "The Duke" gave his movie goer fans exactly what they expected and wanted to see from him in the roles he played in cowboy and war movies --- no more-no less.

The Searchers, True Grit, Man who shot Liberty Valance, and the Quiet Man are excellent examples of very good acting by Wayne.

There are more, including some tough scenes in his war movies.

Never cared for John Wayne

You sir are not an American!

My favorite John Wayne B movie is Angel and The Bad Man

It might not be considered a B movie, It was made in the 40's.

Not saying I’m an expert. My grandfather & my father were career union projectionists, IATSE Local 279. Since the drive-in’s had new movies every Monday night & my mother was a movie fanatic, we spent every Monday night there. It was free along with volumes of popcorn & coke. Tired, falling asleep in the rear dash of our 63 Pontiac Star Chief, mosquito bitten & sweat soaked was commonplace. I don’t really remember a movie I have not seen from that era of the 60’s & 70’s. The most memorable being The Groove Tube which got my Dad arrested. Second was Big Bad Mama with Angie Dickinson, won’t ever forget that movie. R ratings back then were equivalent to XXX for a Southern Baptist. I can still thread a film into the 7’ tall projectors, change the carbon rod, rewind the film & return it to its canister.

Honestly, I gave it the All-American try to appreciate John Wayne, just could never rally the cause.

it was the first movie produced by Wayne. He was on his way up.

We watched the Quiet Man last night.

My favorite is The Angel and the Bad Man!!

Who doesn't like the

John Wayne and I have one thing in common: We were both born in the same town. Fifty years apart but the same town.

His best work was in his later years. My favorite movies were The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. It was also great work by Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The entire crew of that movie did a great job of making the movie believable. John Carradine was also in his last movie, The Shootist.

kwg

I have always liked him.

I was cleaning out my storage shed and found 2 brand new full size John Wayne cardboard posters. I don’t know what to do with them. Any ideas? I would sell them but don’t know how hard they would be to ship..

I liked John Wayne in everything I ever saw him in I guess. I’m not one to judge his acting ability but it was always good enough for me. One thing I always noticed about Wayne though, was his ability to let his eyes and facial expressions do his acting for him and tell you what his character was thinking or was going to do next. One of my all time favorites!

My dearly departed mother in law met him on his boat anchored up in Puget Sound somewhere. He invited her aboard for cocktails with his latina wife. She was thrilled and talked about it to her dying day. There's a picture somewhere around here of her hanging on the Duke, cocktails and cigarettes in hand.

One of my favorite old John Wayne movies is - Shepherd Of The Hills.

Well worth watching if you happen to run across it.

drover