The Shootist (1976)
Drama | Romance | Western
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian
Director: Don Siegel
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Drama | Western
A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
Director: John Ford
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Action | Drama | War
Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen, William Harrigan
Director: Nicholas Ray
In Old California (1942)
Romance | Western
During the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson.
Starring: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Patsy Kelly, Dick Purcell, Harry Shannon
Director: William C. McGann
Stagecoach (1939)
Adventure | Western
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Starring: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt
Director: John Ford
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
Starring: John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Julie Bishop, Peter Coe
Director: Allan Dwan
The Quiet Man (1952)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick
Director: John Ford
Red River (1948)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Western
Dunson is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey
Narrator: Walter Brennan
Director: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
The Searchers (1956)
Adventure | Drama | Western
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity.
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Harry Carey Jr.
Director: John Ford
Flying Tigers (1942)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American mercenary fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.
Starring: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Addison Richards
Director: David Miller
El Dorado (1966)
Western
Gunfighter-for-hire Cole Thornton joins forces with his friend the Sheriff, an old Indian fighter and a gambler to help a rancher and his family fight off a rival that is trying to steal their water.
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt
Director: Howard Hawks
Fort Apache (1948)
Western
A colonel is embittered because he's been assigned to a remote fort after a brilliant war record. His rule-book manners and inability to accept advice of officers experienced with the west and the Indians lead to a tragic massacre for himself and the majority of his command.
Starring: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen
Director: John Ford
North to Alaska (1960)
Comedy | Western
Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy. Frankie is a con man trying to steal the partner's gold claim.
Starring: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovaks, Fabian, Capucine, Mickey Shaughnessy
Director: Henry Hathaway
The Undefeated (1969)
Western
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Starring: John Wayne, Antonio Aguilar, Rock Hudson, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Rio Lobo (1970)
Adventure | Romance | War | Western
After the civil war, a man searches for the man who was responsible for the death of his friend and most of his army unit.
Starring: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French
Director: Howard Hawks
In Harm's Way (1965)
Drama | War
A naval officer unjustly reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese and to his naval pilot son.
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Paula Prentiss, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth
Director: Otto Preminger
Hatari! (1962)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Adventure, camaraderie, love and laughs combine against the breathtaking vistas of Africa in this 1962 treat as an American game catcher and a photographer who strikes a deal to travel with his trapping crew.
Starring: John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, Gérard Blain
Director: Howard Hawks
McLintock! (1963)
Comedy | Romance | Western
A cattle baron fights to tame the West and his estranged wife.
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chill Wills, Jack Kruschen, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
3 Godfathers (1948)
Drama | Western
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 lives.
Starring: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Mildred Natwick, Jane Darwell
Director: John Ford
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Western
John Wayne reprises his role as Rooster Cogburn, the eye-patched, whiskey-guzzling deputy marshall from True Grit. While on the trail of a gang of outlaws led by his old partner Hawk (a truly villainous Richard Jordan), Rooster teams up with bible-thumping missionary Eula Goodnight (Katherine Hepburn) to avenge the murder of her father by the gang. The chemistry between Wayne and Hepburn is palpable as barbs fly between the grumpy gunman and feisty missionary, and Strother Martin delivers a sparkling cameo.
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire, Paul Koslo
Director: Stuart Millar
