What are your Top Five John Wayne Movies?

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See Highest Rated Feature Film Actor Titles With John Wayne for the first 1 to 50 of 167 titles, which I have copied here:

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  1. Brown of Harvard (1926)
  2. Rio Bravo (1959)
  3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  4. Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
  5. The Searchers (1956)
  6. The Quiet Man (1952)
  7. Stagecoach (1939)
  8. The Longest Day (1962)
  9. Red River (1948)
  10. The Shootist (1976)
  11. El Dorado (1966)
  12. Baby Face (1933)
  13. Annie Laurie (1927)
  14. Fort Apache (1948)
  15. In Harm’s Way (1965)
  16. True Grit (1969)
  17. The Cowboys (1972)
  18. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
  19. McLintock! (1963)
  20. Hatari! (1962)
  21. Rio Grande (1950)
  22. They Were Expendable (1945)
  23. The Big Trail (1930)
  24. Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976)
  25. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
  26. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
  27. Big Jake (1971)
  28. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
  29. 3 Godfathers (1948)
  30. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
  31. How the West Was Won (1962)
  32. Hondo (1953)
  33. Tall in the Saddle (1944)
  34. The Drop Kick (1927)
  35. North to Alaska (1960)
  36. The High and the Mighty (1954)
  37. Angel and the Badman (1947)
  38. Island in the Sky (1953)
  39. The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
  40. Four Sons (1928)
  41. Chisum (1970)
  42. Donovan’s Reef (1963)
  43. Rooster Cogburn (1975)
  44. The Alamo (1960)
  45. The War Wagon (1967)
  46. The Comancheros (1961)
  47. Dark Command (1940)
  48. Seven Sinners (1940)
  49. Rio Lobo (1970)
  50. Flying Tigers (1942)

1 to 50 of 167 titles

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Pick your Top Five and post them here.

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Not necessarily in priority order:

  1. The Quiet Man
  2. True Grit
  3. Donovan’s Reef - Can’t beat the Duke and Lee Marvin in a brawl
  4. Big Jake
  5. McLintock!
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True Grit
The Searchers
The Shootist
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Hatari!

4

The Fighting Seabees
The Sons of Katie Elder
McLintok!
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
El Dorado

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Not being a John Wayne fan I’m sort of surprised at the number of movies I like;

The Shootist
True Grit
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (that “my boy Pompey” line still pisses me off)
Big Jake

those are my favorites, there are others I like though.

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Just five?!?!?!

  1. The Quiet Man
  2. Harm’s Way
  3. The Horse Soldiers
  4. McLintock
  5. The US Cavarly series (Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande)
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The Quiet Man
Fort Apache
Red River
The Searchers
Stagecoach

A little tough because Wayne’s best performances don’t always coincide with this best movies.

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My favorites:
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Donovan’s Reef
The Quiet Man
McClintock!
The War Wagon

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The Searchers
The Quiet Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Shootist

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  1. Rio Bravo
  2. They Were Expendable
  3. Red River
  4. The Searchers
  5. The Quiet Man
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Rio Bravo (1959)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Searchers (1956)
True Grit (1969)
They Were Expendable (1945)

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  1. The Searchers (1956)
  2. The Quiet Man (1952)
  3. Stagecoach (1939)
  4. In Harm’s Way (1965)
  5. True Grit (1969)

While I am under no misapprehension that is in any way a “great” movie, I have a certain love for:

  1. Hatari! (1962)
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[ol]
[li]Rio Bravo[/li][li]The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance[/li][li]True Grit[/li][li]The Shootist[/li][li]The Searchers[/li][/ol]

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3, 8, 10, 16 and 22

Tough choices.

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The Longest Day
The Quiet Man
The Shootist
In Harms Way
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

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  1. The Searchers (1956)
  2. The Shootist (1976)
  3. El Dorado (1966)
  4. True Grit (1969)
  5. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
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The Shootist
Cahill, US Marshall
Big Jake
The Cowboys
The Green Berets

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  1. The Shootist (1976)
  2. In Harm’s Way (1965)
  3. The Cowboys (1972)
  4. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
  5. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
True Grit
Stagecoach
Fort Apache
Hatari!

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Big Jake
True Grit
The Searchers
The Cowboys
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance