JOHN WAYNE
MOVIES

After more than 70 low-budget westerns and adventures, mostly routine, Wayne's career was stuck in a rut until Ford cast him in Stagecoach (1939), the movie that made him a star.
Many of these early Westerns are presented here.

(UPDATED 2/26/08)

BLUE STEEL - 1934
Marshal John Carruthers goes undercover to unmask crooked speculators who intend to buy up a supposedly worthless town that actually stands on top of a huge load of gold. 

John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt, George "Gabby" Hayes
BLACK AND WHITE - 54 MINUTES
BLUE STEEL -
JOHN WAYNE - 1934
 - $ 5.95
   
 
DAWN RIDER - 1935
John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for, the man who gunned down his father.

John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore, Reed Howes
BLACK AND WHITE - 55 MINUTES
DAWN RIDER - $ 5.95   
 
THE DESERT TRAIL - 1935
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. 

John Wayne, Mary Kornman,m Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler
BLACK AND WHITE - 54 MINUTES
THE DESERT TRAIL - $ 5.95   
 
THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN - 1949
In Alabama in 1818, Kentucky militiaman John Breen falls in love with a French exile and discovers a plot to steal the land her fellow exiles plan to settle on.

John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, 
Oliver Hardy
BLACK AND WHITE - 1 HOUR 40 MINUTES
THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN
 - JOHN WAYNE
 - $ 5.95
   
 
LAWLESS FRONTIER - 1934
Mexican outlaw Zanti killed John Tobin's parents. John teams up with Dusty, also hurt by Zanti, to get the bad guy.

John Wayne, George "Gabby" Hayes, 
Sheila Terry, Jack Rockwell
BLACK AND WHITE - 50 MINUTES
LAWLESS FRONTIER - JOHN WAYNE
 - $ 5.95
   
 
THE LUCKY TEXAN - 1934
When miners Jerry Mason (John Wayne) and Grandy Benson (George Hayes) turn in their gold at the assay office, the assay officials trail Benson back to the mine and shoot him. Mason is then arrested for the murder. But the supposedly dead Benson survived and now plans a surprise for the culprits at Mason's trial.

John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, Lloyd Whitlock, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 55 MINUTES
THE LUCKY TEXAN - $ 5.95   
 
MAN FROM UTAH - 1934
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders. 

John Wayne, George "Gabby" Hayes, 
Polly Ann Young
BLACK AND WHITE - 51 MINUTES
MAN FROM UTAH - 
JOHN WAYNE
 - $ 5.95
   
 
McLINTOCK - JOHN WAYNE - 1963
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights his wife, his daughter, and political land-grabbers, finally "taming" them all in this Western comedy with Taming of the Shrew overtones.

John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers
COLOR - 2 HOURS 5 MINUTES
McLINTOCK - 
JOHN WAYNE - $ 5.95
   
 
'NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES - 1934
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. 

John Wayne, Ssheila Terry, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jack Rockwall, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 54 MINUTES
'NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES
- $ 5.95
   
 
OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS - 1938
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. 

John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune -  
The Three Mesquiteers
BLACK AND WHITE - 54 MINUTES
Recorded from Digital Satellite
OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS - JOHN WAYNE
 - $ 5.95
   
 
PARADISE CANYON - 1935
John Wyatt (John Wayne) is an undercover federal agent looking for counterfeiters along the Mexican border. Wyatt joins prime suspect Doctor Carter's medicine show and falls for his daughter . 

John Wayne, Marion Burns, Earle Hodgins< Gino Corrado, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 53 MINUTES
PARADISE CANYON - $ 5.95   
 
RAINBOW VALLEY - 1935
Undercover government agent John Martin is assigned to protect men building a road through gold country. The town's leading citizen, in league with bandits, brings in a hired gun, Galt - who recognizes John from a previous encounter. 

John Wayne, Lucile Browne, George "Gabby" Hayes, Leroy Mason
BLACK AND WHITE - 47 MINUTES
RAINBOW VALLEY - $ 5.95   
 
RANDY RIDES ALONE - 1934
Accused of murder and robbery, Randy is released from jail to the custody of Sally Rogers so he can find the real badguys.  He finds their secret hideout behind a waterfall.

John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, 
George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 52 MINUTES
RANDY RIDES ALONE - JOHN WAYNE - $ 5.95   
 
RIDERS OF DESTINY - 1933
Bad guy Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do in the other ranchers. Government agent “Singing” Sandy Saunders (John Wayne) shows up undercover to do in Kincaid and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.

John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George "Gabby" Hayes
BLACK AND WHITE - 53 MINUTES
RIDERS OF DESTINY - $ 5.95   
 
SAGEBRUSH TRAIL - 1937
John Brant escapes jail after being wrongly accused of murder then joins a gang hoping to find the real killer. The real killer happens to be a member of the gang and he suspects Brant is up to no good.

John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 55
MINUTES
SAGEBRUSH TRAIL - JOHN WAYNE - $ 5.95   
 
STAGECOACH - 1939
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a drunken doctor, a pregnant woman, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others. 

Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, 
John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
BLACK AND WHITE - 1 HOUR 36 MINUTES
Recorded from Digital Satellite
STAGECOACH
 - $ 5.95
   
 
THE STAR PACKER - 1934
John Travers and his Indian companion Yak are after the mysterious Shadow and his gang. When Sheriff Davis is killed, Travers becomes Sheriff. Catching two gang members, he learns of the room where the gang gets their orders from behind a fake wall safe and makes plans to trap the Shadow. 

John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 55 MINUTES
THE STAR PACKER - $ 5.95   
 
TEXAS TERROR - 1935
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past. 

John Wayne, Lucile Browne, Leroy Mason, George "Gabby" Hayes
BLACK AND WHITE - 51 MINUTES
TEXAS TERROR - $ 5.95   
 
THE TRAIL BEYOND - 1934
In timber country with a snowy mountain backdrop, Rod Drew saves college pal Wabi from cardsharps on a train. He finds two skeletons in a shack and a map leading to a gold mine. Others want that mine as well. 

John Wayne, Verna Hillie, Noah Beery Sr, 
Noah Beery Jr
BLACK AND WHITE- 55 MINUTES
THE TRAIL BEYOND - $ 5.95   
 
WEST OF THE DIVIDE - 1934
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. 

John Wayne, Virginia Faire Brown, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt
BLACK AND WHITE - 53 MINUTES
WEST OF THE DIVIDE - $ 5.95   
 
WINDS OF THE WASTELAND - 1936
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.

John Wayne , Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly, 
Douglas Cosgrove
BLACK AND WHITE - 56
MINUTES
WINDS OF THE WASTELAND - 
JOHN WAYNE - $ 5.95
   
 

 

 

 

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