Dark Command: John Wayne was at the peak of his box office popularity when he made this rousing western with the acclaimed director Raoul Walsh. Based on a true story Wayne plays Bob Seton an illiterate cowboy from Texas who wins over the people of Lawrence Kansas in the dark days before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Walter Pidgeon co-stars as Will Cantrell a merciless and ambitious ex-school teacher who bands together guerrilla groups and undertakes ruthless raids pillaging the surrounding countryside. While endeavouring to crush Cantrell and his desperados... Wayne is also intent on winning the heart of gorgeous Mary McCloud played by Claire Trevor. Tall In The Saddle: There is plenty to enjoy in this fast-moving western with its generous supply of action romance and humour. Wayne is at his rugged and romantic best as he strives to uncover deceit and injustice in wild cattle county. Wayne plays Rocklin a tough ranch foreman who arrives in town to take over a new job. He finds himself entangled in a stormy love triangle a mysterious murder and a second killing for which he has been framed. There are a number of twists in the tale as Rocklin desperately tries to clear his name. Angel And The Badman: Gunslinger Quirt Evans is injured by Penelope Worth and her father Thomas a Quaker family with values and a way of living in contrast to Quirt Evans. Quirt and Penelope are drawn to each other although Quirt has no intention of embracing the Quaker lifestyle. He does however intervene to convince a rancher to restore their water supply even if the family would not have approved of his methods... Evan's rival Laredo Stevens is unimpressed with the new peaceful Quirt Evans whilst local Marshall Wistful McClintock stokes up the trouble between the two men certain he'll get one or the other (the survivor) brought to justice in the end... The Fighting Kentuckian: John Wayne plays a Kentucky rifleman returning from the Napoleonic war of 1812 in this thrilling romantic adventure. He comes to the aid of French refugees in their fight against mercenary land-grabbing criminals. In the process Wayne falls in love with Fleurette the daughter of a French General. The film also stars Oliver Hardy in a rare unaccompanied role as a portly rifleman playing alongside Wayne's ruggedly determined Kentuckian Fighter. A true classic in every sense of the word. The War Wagon: John Wayne teams up with Kirk Douglas in The War Wagon an action-packed western. Wayne plays rancher Taw Jackson a man who's dead set on capturing an iron-clad stagecoach belonging to a cattle baron who stole his fortune and tarnished his good name years before. To pull off the heist Jackson puts together a crew that include an old character a half civilised Indian a young drunk and a cocky gunfighter. Of course they manage the impossible to the tune of half a million dollars in gold bullion and the music of Academy Award winner Dimitri Tiomkin. Rooster Coqburn: Two of the most popular stars in screen history are brought together for the first time in the follow-up to True Grit. The film returns John Wayne to the role of the rapscallion eye-patched whisky-guzzling Deputy Marshall that won him an Academy Award. Katherine Hepburn is prim Eula Goodnight a Bible-thumping missionary who teams up with the gunfighter to avenge the death of her father. While in pursuit of the outlaws a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty Reverend's daughter. [show more]
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Six classic Westerns starring John Wayne. In 'Dark Command' (1940), set in the days before the American Civil War, illiterate cowboy Bob Seton (Wayne) finds favour with the townsfolk of Lawrence, Texas, and attempts to win the heart of beautiful Mary McCloud (Claire Trevor). However, when ex-schoolteacher Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon) bands together a group of mercenaries and begins to terrorise the local population, it is up to Bob to bring him to justice. In 'Tall in the Saddle' (1944), newly-arrived ranch foreman Rocklin (Wayne) finds himself involved in a love triangle and a murder mystery when he discovers that his new boss has been murdered. Framed for the crime, Rocklin must discover the identity of the real killer if he is to clear his own name. In 'Angel and the Badman' (1946), Quart Evans (Wayne), ex-deputy sheriff of Wyatt Earp, is now a rough and ready gunslinger. After being injured in a shootout, Evans is taken in and nursed by a Quaker family. He finds himself falling for the daughter (Gail Russell), and attempts to give up gunslinging. However, a determination to bring a group of murderers to justice threatens his new-found peace of mind. In 'The Fighting Kentuckian' (1949), Wayne plays a member of a Kentucky regiment that helped defeat the British at New Orleans. He stays behind to help the French settlers fight unscrupulous developers and to win the hand of Fleurette (Vera Ralston), the daughter of a French general (Hugo Haas). Kirk Douglas co-stars in the later film 'The War Wagon' (1967). Rancher Taw Jackson (Wayne) seeks revenge upon cattle baron West Catlin, who had robbed him of his life savings and his reputation years before. When he discovers that his nemesis is hiding half a million dollars of gold bullion in an armoured stagecoach, Taw gathers together a motley crew to help him steal it. Finally, Wayne's penultimate film 'Rooster Cogburn' (1975) is a sequel to the 1969 film 'True Grit'. This time round, the rough and ready lawman Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) teams up with prim missionary Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn), who wants to find the men who killed her father.
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