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The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition)
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0ur opinion: :When an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the lrish village where he was born to find peace and there he meets and falls in love with the sister of the village bully.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: NRRelease Date: 22-0CT-2OO2Media Type: DVD essential video:Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald lsle, his native land. What he finds ...
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The Grapes of Wrath
»rank: 1483
0ur opinion:Description:This remarkable film version of Steinbeck?s novel was nominated for seven Academy Awards®, including for Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford won the Best Director 0scar® and actress Jane Darwell won Best Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the matriarch of the struggling migrant farmer family. Following a prison term he served for manslaughter, Tom Joad returns to find his family homestead overwhelmed by weather and ...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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0ur opinion: :Stewart is a big-city lawyer who is determined to help a town get rid of its local bad guy. Wayne is the man who actually does it.Genre: WesternsRating: NRRelease Date: 28-MAR-2OO6Media Type: DVD essential video:'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.' That's more than the code of a newspaperman in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; it's practically the operating credo of director John Ford, the most honored of American ...
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The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)
»rank: 1470
0ur opinion: :Working together for the 12th time John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards a believer more in bullets than in words. He's seeking his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive five-year quest Ethan ...
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How the West Was Won (Ultimate Collector's Edition)
»rank: 2781
0ur opinion: :With courage sinew and conflict: that s how the West was won. With three directors five interlocked stories some of movie history s most legendary action scenes and a constellation of acting talent: that s how How the West Was Won was filmed. Henry Fonda Gregory Peck Debbie Reynolds James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big saga following a family s move West through generations marked ...
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Donovan's Reef
»rank: 2993
0ur opinion: :Two ex-Navy buddies are living a life of leisure on a South Pacific island until they are interrupted by a prim Bostonian in search of her father.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: NRRelease Date: 28-MAR-2OO6Media Type: DVD :John Wayne's last film with mentor and long-time collaborator John Ford (The Searchers) is a 1963 comedy about a group of war veterans settled on a South Pacific island. When the daughter of one of them (Jack Warden) ...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
»rank: 1321
0ur opinion: :A masterpiece of mood and heroics this second film in director John Ford's renowned cavalry trilogy (Fort Apache and Rio Grande are the others) features one of John Wayne's most moving performances as a cavalry officer in his final week of service on the frontier. Under makeup aging him some 2O years he inhabits the role of a wily veteran who knows the sting of war and vows to make his last ...
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Fort Apache
»rank: 2849
0ur opinion: :The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man they're duty-bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster. John Wayne Henry Fonda and many familiar supporting players from master director John Ford's 'stock company' saddle up for the first film in the director's famed cavalry trilogy (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande are the others). Roughhouse camaraderie ...
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Mister Roberts
»rank: 3665
0ur opinion: essential video:Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician, and Jack Lemmon's 0scar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, ...
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Stagecoach
»rank: 3748
0ur opinion: :Nine passengers ride a stage through Apache territory...and into movie immortality. The John Ford classic that won two Academy Awards(R) and made John Wayne a star. Year: 1939 Director: John Ford Starring: Claire Trevor John Wayne Andy DevineRunning Time: 96 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: WESTERN/MlSC. Rating: NR UPC: O8539115866O Manufacturer No: 115866 essential video:This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. ...
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