Big Jake is not one of the Duke's classics, but it's a diverting picture nonetheless. Everyone seems to think that Jacob McCandles is six-feet under ("I thought you was dead" is a running line throughout), so some bad men kidnap his grandson. They want a piece of the family fortune and will kill to get it. Patrick Wayne, the Duke's own son, plays one of Big Jake's kids, and together they start out after the boy's abductors. Richard Boone makes a worthy adversary to Jake's larger-than-life figure, and the final confrontation between the two contains some great gritted-teeth... dialogue. Maureen O'Hara is barely in the feature, sharing the same fate as Bobby Vinton as the boy's father, who seems to be onscreen just to get shot. --Keith Simanton [show more]
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George Sherman's western sees John Wayne playing elderly Texan Jacob McCandles, alongside a cast that includes several other Wayne family members. McCandles decides to take the law into his own hands when his grandson (played by his real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped and his estranged son shot in the process. Ready to pay the $1 million demanded as ransom, McCandles recruits his sons (Patrick Wayne and Chris Mitchum) as back-up gunslingers just in case there is any shooting...
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. An action-packed, and at times comic Western in which Wayne goes after the band of tough outlaws who kidnapped his grandson.
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