John Wayne: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Stagecoach]]'' (1939): The one that put Wayne on the map, in which he plays the Ringo Kid, a criminal who turns himself in to a sheriff protecting a wagon party moving westward so that he can avenge the murders of his father and brother.

* ''[[Fort Apache]]'' (1948): Wayne co-stars with [[Henry Fonda]] as Kirby Yorke, an officer long-experienced in dealing with the Apaches chafing under the martinetish ways of his new commander.

* ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'' (1949): Wayne is Nathan Brittles, an aging cavalry commander with one last duty before retirement: stop an Indian tribe from attacking a fort. Notable because he was playing a 65 year old man at the age of 35, and yet he's so convincing, many people born since Wayne died have a hard time placing it at the '''start''' of his career.

* ''[[Sands Of Iwo Jima]]'' (1949) Wayne plays a grizzled Sergeant, a Guadalcanal and Tarawa vet who leads a squad through Iwo Jima.

* ''[[McLintock]]'' (1963): Wayne is the eponymous richest man in town, but has to put up with a nagging ex-wife and strange townsfolk; the movie is famous for a fistfight on the edge of (and in) a muddy quarry.

** Also notable for not one, but ''two'' [[Spank the Cutie|spanking scenes]].

* ''[[True Grit]]'' (1969): Wayne's only Oscar win came about as the one-eyed hero Rooster Cogburn, hired by a young girl to capture her father's killer.

** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]]: [[Guns Akimbo|"Fill your hands you son of a bitch!"]] With a specialized Winchester Repeater that he could load & fire ''one handed.''