Films with John Wayne
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1. Brown of Harvard (1926)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 1,530
2. Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore
Votes: 1,310 | Gross: $0.49M
3. The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)
53 min | Drama, Western
Disguising as a bandit, a detective infiltrates a group of train robberies while falling in love with the K and A railroad's president's daughter.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Tony the Horse, Will Walling
Votes: 397
4. Annie Laurie (1927)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale, Joseph Striker
Votes: 501 | Gross: $0.43M
5. The Draw-Back (1927)
26 min | Comedy, Short
A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Johnny Arthur, Kathryn McGuire, Wallace Lupino, Al Thompson
Votes: 40
6. The Drop Kick (1927)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Sport
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when tragedy strikes after he pays an innocent visit to a woman.
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Eugene Strong
Votes: 279
7. Seeing Stars (1927)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Garrett and Ryan are on an adventure to see stars in America but they find a gay bar that slows their journey
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: George Davis, Molly Malone, Jack Lloyd, Phil Dunham
Votes: 14
8. Mother Machree (1927)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels ... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: Belle Bennett, Neil Hamilton, Philippe De Lacy, Pat Somerset
Votes: 190
9. Four Sons (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 920
10. Hangman's House (1928)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
"Citizen" Hogan, an exile Irish patriot, risks his life by returning to Ireland and helping a young couple.
Director: John Ford | Stars: June Collyer, Larry Kent, Victor McLaglen, Earle Foxe
Votes: 557
11. A Home-Made Man (1928)
15 min | Short, Comedy
The burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Lucille Hutton, Kewpie Morgan, John Wayne
Votes: 22
12. Noah's Ark (1928)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, War
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 919 | Gross: $1.37M
13. Speakeasy (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Paul Page, Lola Lane, Henry B. Walthall, Helen Ware
Votes: 83
14. The Black Watch (1929)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, David Torrence, David Rollins
Votes: 479
15. Words and Music (1929)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Music
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees
Votes: 91
16. Salute (1929)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Fraternal rivalry intensifies when two brothers play on opposing teams in a big Army-Navy football match.
Directors: David Butler, John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 261
17. The Forward Pass (1929)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Marion Byron
Votes: 111
18. Men Without Women (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Action, Drama
U.S. Navy divers race to save the crew of a foundered submarine as the sailors hopelessly prepare to die.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Kenneth MacKenna, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hymer
Votes: 407
19. Born Reckless (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, War
Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan, Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 562
20. Rough Romance (1930)
Passed | 55 min | Adventure, Western
Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
Directors: A.F. Erickson, Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, Antonio Moreno, Roy Stewart
Votes: 120
21. Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
76 min | Musical
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Arthur Lake, Dixie Lee, Olga Baclanova, 'Whispering' Jack Smith
Votes: 88
22. The Big Trail (1930)
Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall
Votes: 4,338
23. Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
69 min | Comedy, Romance
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
Director: Seymour Felix | Stars: Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Edward J. Nugent
Votes: 125
24. Three Girls Lost (1931)
80 min | Drama
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartment house resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him. He and Joan's roommate Noreen become involved.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Loretta Young, Lew Cody, John Wayne, Joan Marsh
Votes: 144
25. Arizona (1931)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Bob refuses to marry his girlfriend and leaves her. She marries his close friend out of revenge.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Laura La Plante, John Wayne, June Clyde, Forrest Stanley
Votes: 342
26. The Deceiver (1931)
66 min | Mystery
Broadway matinee idol, Shakespearean actor Reginald Thorpe, is found dead in his dressing room on the eve of his departure for Hollywood. Thorpe's understudy, Tony Hill, is suspected, ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Dorothy Sebastian, Ian Keith, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 94
27. The Range Feud (1931)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming, Edward LeSaint
Votes: 484
28. Maker of Men (1931)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Sport
Bob plays football badly, so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy, and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Holt, Richard Cromwell, Joan Marsh, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 148
29. The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
Passed | 218 min | Mystery
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a traveling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Directors: Ford Beebe, B. Reeves Eason | Stars: John Wayne, Dorothy Gulliver, Edward Hearn, Richard Tucker
Votes: 455
30. Texas Cyclone (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Western
Pecos Grant rides into a strange town only to find that everyone recognizes him, not as Pecos Grant, but as a presumed-dead man named Rawlins. Even Rawlins' wife thinks her husband has come back. Pecos sets out to solve the mystery.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Wheeler Oakman, John Wayne
Votes: 438
31. Two-Fisted Law (1932)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
After Rob Russell steals Tim Clark's ranch, Clark starts prospecting for silver.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Alice Day, Wheeler Oakman, Tully Marshall
Votes: 480
32. Lady and Gent (1932)
84 min | Drama, Sport
Fresh young boxer Buzz Kinney is just out of college. He's able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran becomes overconfident. Later, Buzz is a worn-out wreck with a broken nose and cauliflower ear.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, James Gleason
Votes: 235
33. The Hurricane Express (1932)
Passed | 227 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When his father is killed in a train wreck, Larry Baker vows to unmask a mysterious criminal called "The Wrecker," who has targeted the L&M Railroad for deadly" accidents."
Directors: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer | Stars: John Wayne, Shirley Grey, Conway Tearle, Tully Marshall
Votes: 684
34. Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Drama, Romance
John Drury arrives in town and is taken on as a hero by the townspeople after he saves a horse's life. They ask him to lead them in their fight against the mysterious Hawk who has been plaguing them for years with theft, arson and murder.
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Ruth Hall, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 734
35. That's My Boy (1932)
71 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Dorothy Jordan, Mae Marsh, Arthur Stone
Votes: 155
36. The Big Stampede (1932)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
Director: Tenny Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Noah Beery, Paul Hurst, Mae Madison
Votes: 681
37. Haunted Gold (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
John and Janet get a weird letter telling them to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.
Directors: Mack V. Wright, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Sheila Terry, Harry Woods
Votes: 762
38. The Telegraph Trail (1933)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
Director: Tenny Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Frank McHugh, Marceline Day
Votes: 641
39. The Three Musketeers (1933)
Passed | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion.
Directors: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., John Wayne
Votes: 500
40. Central Airport (1933)
Unrated | 72 min | Drama
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Alfred E. Green | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Tom Brown, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 475
41. Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer
Votes: 481
42. His Private Secretary (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Dick Wallace secretly marries a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who thinks she is a gold digger, is opposed. She takes a job with the company under her maiden name to prove she's okay.
Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, John Wayne, Reginald Barlow, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 764
43. The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. He hides out at a health farm for invalid children and begins to lose his cynicism under the influence of the ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 725
44. Baby Face (1933)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier
Votes: 8,167
45. The Man from Monterey (1933)
Passed | 57 min | Adventure, Music, Romance
A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Ruth Hall, Luis Alberni
Votes: 589
46. Riders of Destiny (1933)
Passed | 53 min | Music, Romance, Western
Loner rider Singin' Sandy Saunders rides into town to discover local ranchers are being victimized by a land-grabbing villain who controls the water supply and wants their land.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 1,199
47. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Mary Carlisle, Buster Crabbe, Charles Starrett, Florence Lake
Votes: 55
48. College Coach (1933)
TV-G | 76 min | Drama, Sport
Coach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Pat O'Brien, Arthur Byron
Votes: 520
49. Sagebrush Trail (1933)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western
A man framed for murder escapes prison and goes west, where he joins a gang with the real killer involved.
Director: Armand Schaefer | Stars: John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler, Yakima Canutt
Votes: 1,397
50. The Lucky Texan (1934)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lloyd Whitlock
Votes: 1,371
51. West of the Divide (1934)
Approved | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father. He saves Virginia Winters' dad's ranch from Gentry and also rescues his long-lost brother Spud.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Virginia Brown Faire, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lloyd Whitlock
Votes: 1,071
52. Blue Steel (1934)
Passed | 52 min | Drama, Western
U.S. marshal John Carruthers observes a robbery and Sheriff Jake thinks he may be the culprit. Meanwhile the town's leading citizen is planning to rob everybody blind.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 1,760
53. The Man from Utah (1934)
Passed | 51 min | Drama, Western
In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to lose. When he doesn't go along they add some insurance: a poisoned needle just under his saddle.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 1,254
54. Randy Rides Alone (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stumble into the den of the real murderers.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Yakima Canutt
Votes: 1,179
55. The Star Packer (1934)
Approved | 53 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A gang working for The Shadow is terrorizing the town. John Travers decides to take on the job of sheriff and do something about it.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Yakima Canutt
Votes: 1,290
56. The Trail Beyond (1934)
Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Noah Beery, Verna Hillie, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 1,004
57. The Lawless Frontier (1934)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Western
Mexican outlaw Zanti killed John Tobin's parents. John teams up with Dusty, also hurt by Zanti, to get the bad guy.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Jack Rockwell
Votes: 1,123
58. 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Drama, Western
A cowboy escorts a little girl, whose mother made her the heir of a cash-able oil company, and must protect her from an outlaw as they search for the girl's father.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jack Rockwell
Votes: 1,136
59. Texas Terror (1935)
Approved | 51 min | Drama, Western
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend Dan in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters Dan's daughter who takes over her father's ranch. Then she finds out about his past.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Lucile Browne, LeRoy Mason, Fern Emmett
Votes: 1,055
60. Rainbow Valley (1935)
Approved | 52 min | Drama, Western
John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Lucile Browne, George 'Gabby' Hayes, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 742
61. The Desert Trail (1935)
Approved | 54 min | Western
Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: John Wayne, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler
Votes: 1,031
62. The Dawn Rider (1935)
Approved | 53 min | Drama, Western
Just as John travels to visit his father, he witnesses his death and suffers a gun wound - a beautiful woman is kind enough to help him bring the killers to justice, but jealousy from another man may cause problems.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore, Reed Howes
Votes: 1,324
63. Paradise Canyon (1935)
Approved | 52 min | Action, Drama, Western
An undercover agent for the government is sent to round up a gang of counterfeiters operating near the Mexican border.
Director: Carl Pierson | Stars: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Reed Howes, Earle Hodgins
Votes: 1,028
64. Westward Ho (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Western
As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jim Farley
Votes: 639 | Gross: $0.50M
65. The New Frontier (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1889, pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Pierson | Stars: John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Warner Richmond, Al Bridge
Votes: 350
66. Lawless Range (1935)
Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western
John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jack Curtis
Votes: 553
67. The Oregon Trail (1936)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Army Captain John Delmont takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father. Later he leads a wagon train to California and goes after the bad guys involved in his father's disappearance.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Joseph W. Girard, Yakima Canutt
68. The Lawless Nineties (1936)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Western
Federal agent John Tipton heads for Wyoming to supervise the vote on whether to join the Union. One group of locals is using dynamite to terrorize the populace and a local newspaper editor is killed.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 409
69. King of the Pecos (1936)
Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western
In Cottonwood, Texas, claim-jumper Alexander Stiles killed John Clayborn's parents when they refused to sell their ranch to him. Ten years later, John, now a lawyer, returns under the name of John Clay to exact vengeance.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Cy Kendall, Jack Rube Clifford
Votes: 568
70. The Lonely Trail (1936)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Cy Kendall, Bob Kortman
Votes: 440
71. Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or Stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly, Douglas Cosgrove
Votes: 1,159
72. The Sea Spoilers (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A Coast Guard commander must rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from seal smugglers while contending with the plans of the area commander's son.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Wayne, Nan Grey, William Bakewell, Fuzzy Knight
Votes: 207
73. Conflict (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
Director: David Howard | Stars: John Wayne, Jean Rogers, Ward Bond, Tommy Bupp
Votes: 161
74. California Straight Ahead! (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Former school bus driver Biff Smith manages a trucking company which has its fleet pitted against a freight train in a race to deliver aviation parts to the Pacific coast.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Louise Latimer, Robert McWade, Theodore von Eltz
Votes: 188
75. I Cover the War! (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Newsreel cameraman Bob Adams heads to North Africa to cover an Arab uprising against the British. When he refuses to help his younger brother become a cameraman, Don becomes the dupe of less savory types posing in the trade.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Gwen Gaze, Don Barclay, Charles Brokaw
Votes: 209
76. Idol of the Crowds (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Johnny Hanson wants to make enough money to enlarge his chicken farm. He does this through hockey. Gangsters get involved in trying to get him to throw a championship game, even lining up a woman to help steer him their way.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Charles Brokaw, Bill Burrud
Votes: 214
77. Adventure's End (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Drama
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Diana Gibson, Montagu Love, Moroni Olsen
Votes: 128
78. Born to the West (1937)
Approved | 49 min | Drama, Western
Can Dare Rudd prove he is responsible enough to win the heart of Judy and also outwit the crooked saloon owner?
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, John Patterson
Votes: 1,032
79. Pals of the Saddle (1938)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Foreign agents are smuggling monium (a chemical used in producing poison gas) into Mexico. The three Mesquiteers get involved when they ride to save a girl (really a government agent) on a runaway horse.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Doreen McKay
Votes: 416
80. Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Louise Brooks, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune
Votes: 542
81. Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered. Stony is accused.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, June Martel
Votes: 484
82. Red River Range (1938)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans. The governor asks the Three Mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lorna Gray
Votes: 453
83. Stagecoach (1939)
Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, 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.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine
Votes: 53,784
84. The Night Riders (1939)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Western
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Doreen McKay
Votes: 436
85. Three Texas Steers (1939)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A circus owner, for sentimental reasons, won't sell her ranch. Her business partners secretly sabotage the circus to force a sale but her neighbors, The Three Mesquiteers, hope to thwart their plan.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis
Votes: 436
86. Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Western
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 435
87. New Frontier (1939)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Western
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our good guys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Jones
Votes: 692
88. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,801
89. Dark Command (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers
Votes: 3,037
90. Three Faces West (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Austrian refugees Dr Braun and his daughter Leni join the town's plan to relocate to Oregon. The town leader falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped them escape from the Third Reich.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters
Votes: 966
91. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War
A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Ward Bond
Votes: 4,924
92. Seven Sinners (1940)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 1,658
93. A Man Betrayed (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A small-town attorney comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the crime ring he hopes to expose.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford
Votes: 625
94. Lady from Louisiana (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In the 1890s, a Northern lawyer goes to New Orleans to aid the local reform league in their fight against the crooked lottery run by a Southern ex-general and his beautiful daughter.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: John Wayne, Ona Munson, Ray Middleton, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 577
95. The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,589
96. Lady for a Night (1942)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 627
97. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Passed | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey
Votes: 3,547
98. The Spoilers (1942)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Western
In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 3,253
99. In Old California (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
During the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish
Votes: 1,546
100. Flying Tigers (1942)
Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.
Director: David Miller | Stars: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly
Votes: 4,250 | Gross: $3.27M
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