Best John Wayne film?

[tangor]

We've been "Lost" recently. Enjoyed that show for a bit until they jerked me around.

But we do have a finished body of work by John Wayne.

Your favorite is:

Mine is a gazillion of them, but will refine it to one: THE QUIET MAN.

What's yours?

[Leosghost]

I'll have a pint of the black stuff if you're buyin'..

:))

Another vote for the quiet man

and a wee vote on the side for Robert Mitchum in Ryan's Daughter

[ectect]

The Searchers

"Let's go home Debbie"

[dibbern2]

Another vote for The Searchers. The final shot with Matthew framed in the doorway, OUTSIDE of the family happening inside. Wow!

But The Shootist was great also.

[henry0]

Sorry guess I had the wrong actor
I was going with High Noon!

Rio Bravo I like it a lot.

[kaled]

Big Jake is underrated. True Grit and Rooster Cogburn are both excellent as are The sons of Katie Elder and The Undefeated.

The Quiet Man is a good movie, but Maureen O Hara and Barry Fitzgerald both outshine the Duke. The Searchers is just too dark and too slow - it's more a work of art than a piece of entertainment.

Kaled.

[Syzygy]

Hmm, I'd probably have to go with The Quiet Man. Others, in no particular order would be:

* The Alamo (great piece of fiction and an epic of a movie)

* The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (although really a vehicle for the just-as-great James Stewart)

* The Shootist (the dying John Wayne ending the life of his own on-screen persona).

Syzygy