Big Jake (1971) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | John Wayne is a Legend!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 เม.ย. 2023
- Thanks to Grandaddy Dudester for the Special Request! We both check out the Legendary John Wayne in Big Jake (1971). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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James was played by Patrick Wayne, and the grandson was played by Ethan Wayne. Both are sons of John Wayne.
Also, the other son is played by Christopher Mitchum, which is Robert Mitchum son
And this movie premiered in theatres on John Wayne's birthday in 1971!
Patrick is the son by Duke's first wife, Ethan is the son of his third wife.
Woah, the little boy was his son too? That's strange to think about.
Never knew that.
@@76tennboy The son who is shot (Jeff McCandles) is played by Bobby Vinton, singer of Blue Velvet, Mr. Lonely, and Roses are Red.
I like the fact that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne never said we will give them what they want but, we'll give them what they asked for.
I like this movie a lot, and I'm very grateful that you reacted to it, but I'm still been a little peeved all these years that the McCandles couldn't take just a moment to give Sam and Dog their due for giving their lives to help save Little Jake.
That always bugged me too. The ending is terribly abrupt.
Best to end on a high note.
Personally, I think that El Dorado, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katie Elder, Hatari, Donovan's Reef, The Green Berets, the original True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, and Chisum are all worth reacting to, as well.
McLintock!
Horse Soldiers too!
the gang fight always kills me xD ass whoopins all around@@PrayerfullyBlessedMama
I would add The Quiet Man, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Rio Lobo to your nice list, and the nnniiiccceee!
Regarding the dog: Two collies, trained by Robert Weatherwax and Rudd Weatherwax, played Dog, John Wayne's faithful companion: Silver and Laddie (Lassie Jr.) for the stunts. Eventually Laddie won a PATSY award for his performance in this film. The wooden base with a tile and a small brass placard read "Award of Excellence - 1971 / Laddie (Dog) / Bobby Weatherwax, Owner-Trainer / Big Jake". "Streaks and tip" from an aerosol can were used to make their coats darker.
Laddie was the son of Lassie. Also, one of the big inconsistencies found in the film, as you noticed, was how their coloring jumped around from dirty brown to almost black. Did they just think no one would notice? lol
My favorite character(s): Sam and Dog. It figures they'd both wind up dead. lol
"The Cowboys", "Rio Bravo", "True Grit" fav Wayne movies. The Cowboys has one of John Williams best soundtracks.
Even better are how many careers The Cowboys launched.
@@thunderchaser2042 There is a great 50th Anniversary reunion of all the kids on TH-cam. Great stories! Half the kids were Actors, half were real Cowboys. They had to teach each other how to be the other.
Ethan Wayne was John Wayne's youngest son. The one who plays his son Michael was played by Robert Mitchum's son.
If you haven't seen True Grit (the john wayne version) or The Searchers, i would recommend those. These two and A Quiet Man are for me, Wayne's best films. Big Jake and War Wagon (fun movie as well) sit just below those three. Oh, and in case you missed it, a very young Bobby Vinton (the singer) portrayed Jeff McCandles, the son who was shot in the beginning. And yes, that was Wayne's son, Patrick Wayne.
The Searchers is one of my favorite John Wayne movies; probably second only to "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". My take on it is very different from most people's... sucks to be most people, I guess.
I love Rio Bravo; I even have it on my phone sometimes so I can watch it on break/lunch at work.
"The Sons of Katie Elder" I've always had trouble watching... especially since my parents passed away.
Hearing, "Katie WINS this one" can bring me to tears of shame.
@@HiraghmThe Searchers should have earned Wayne an Oscar. His recalling finding Lucy’s body was his best performance and the stare he gave that freed captive girl is spine chilling.
The ending of the Searchers is absolutely quintessential cinema
A series of John Wayne movie reactions, would be just the thing
If you're going to do a John Wayne movie try "The Cowboys", or his final movie "The Shootist".
The Searchers.
@Devon Lott It was OK. Personally I think "The Shootist" was his best.
@LW Man, that's John Fords' magnum Opus. The cinematography & story are the 🐝 knees.
@Devon Lott I'm a gen x'er, son of a boomer and Vietnam vet. The cowboys was the first John Wayne move I watched with my dad. Now I can't watch either of them without crying. Lost my dad to cancer 13 years ago.
@LW Damn, man, I get it. My condolences, brah.
Love the brief scenes with Maureen Ohara and Richard Boone with John Wayne. "I thought you was dead." "Not hardly." Thanks for watching this old movie, for me it's an old guilty pleasure. Love Rio Bravo - awesome movie and cast.
John Carpenter gave a nod to the "I thought you were dead" running gag in "Escape From New York."
Rio Bravo, El Dorado... you say tomato, I say... same movie made years apart...
"I thought you was dead!" Love his response. One of my favorite Duke movies.
You kind of get the notion that if they knew that Big Jake was alive, they might’ve gone after some other rancher’s grandson.
A little trivia. As you noticed, Dog appeared different from shot to shot. It was the same dog throughout the movie. The reason that he appears so different, is because he's a Collie that had hair dye applied! He looked different, because it was temporary, and If he got wet for any reason, it would start to wash out. Also, the younger son Michael was played by Robert Mitchum's son Christopher.
There were actually two collies used in the movie, named Silver and Laddie.
One of my favorite John Wayne films.
I also like Rooster Cogburn And True Grit.
Wow, great choice. This is probably my favorite John Wayne movie. The introduction to Big Jake is one of the best character introductions of all time.
I was 12 when this was made and saw it in the theater with my Grandpa. Wayne was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in 1964. As a result he had his Left Superior Lung and two rib's removed. I have also had my Left Lung removed and inner chest wall scraped of Cancer that migrated there from the Lung. The first four day's after the surgery I just screamed. Wayne was back working the year after his surgery. I think the first film he made after was "The Son's of Katie Elder" in 1965. Then in 1969 he won the Best Actor, Academy Award for "True Grit". You should check out his final film "The Shootist". The plot is prophetic, and you have actor's like Richard Boone and "Fatty" from this film playing in it. It also has Ron Howard and as I think we talked about it being Jimmy Stewart's last "on screen" performance. That's enough, sorry, I can get carried away!!
Jimmy Stewart appeared in Airport `77, The Big Sleep, The Magic of Lassie, and A Tale of Africa after The Shootist. Not counting TV and voice work.
Ethan Wayne wasn't his grandson, he was his son.
See "The Shootist", a very special JW film. An aging gunfighter dying of cancer,
played by an actor who is keenly aware of his own impending mortality.
Also, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". The essential John Wayne western.
The Cowboys! Excellent!
Can't wait!!! Best line in the movie is Dog..."
Ethan is John Wayne's son, not grandson. The one on the motorcycle is Robert Mitchum's son.
I love this movie. Never thought I'd see someone react to this
I still feel this was one of John Wayne's best movies there was humor there was action, and everything else you could applaud
Great to see you reacting to this one. And it has the best on-screen introduction of a John Wayne character!!
Except for the one in "Stagecoach."
Love John Wayne flicks. The Comancheros and the War Wagon are also great.
The dog is a Collie, probably a dog used in one of that Lassie movies. For some reason the dog's coat was dyed black and as the days passed, the color faded.
10:28 yep, that is John Wayne's son. Patrick Wayne did make a small cameo in Young Guns starring Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland, as Pat Garrett.
North to Alaska is a must watch John Wayne film. You two will love it.
Saw The Cowboys at the theater, classic! And in my opinion John Williams best!
In the ambush scene, Michael was riding around looking for the boy
Man, I've been waiting for FOREVER for people to start reacting to these movies.
If you really want to watch some great John Wayne flicks I highly suggest you check out The Quiet Man, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Shootist!
The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo and The Searchers are top tier my friend!
John Wayne's other son Michael would serve as Producer for Wayne's Batjac production company. Playing his Indian friend was Wayne's longtime friend actor Bruce Cabot. His career goes back to the 1930's and he appeared in the original "King Kong" .
Cabot was in Hatari and The Hellfighters with him, too.
Please do Rio Bravo at some point. Wayne's best performance is probably in The Shootist, but Rio Bravo is my favourite film of his.
I say do a triple feature Rio Bravo, El Dorado and Rio Lobo...
Fun fact: the son that rode the motorcycle was Robert Mitchams son.
He's also in the John Wayne movie "Rio Lobo"
Gotta do The Shootist. His last before he died and arguably his best, in close competition with True Grit.
You should try "The Undefeated", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", "Rio Grande" and "McClintock".
The father of Little Jake was played by the Polish Prince of Song, Bobby Vinton!
Sam Sharpnose is played by Bruce Cabot, who started as Jack Driscoll in 1933's King Kong. He appeared in Wayne's McClintock! as well.
Cabot was a regular in Wayne westerns. He's also the villain in 'The War Wagon'.
In the last scene with the thunderstorm, it reminds me of how spectacular they are when they occur in the vast reaches of the Arizona or New Mexico deserts
Richard Boone really was one of the greatest screen villains. He was in Wayne's last movie The Shootist, and he was at his most sinister with Paul Newman in Hombre.
I forgot about him in Hombre!
Little Jake was played by his youngest son Ethan (not his grandson) by another mother than older son Patrick. Several of his children including a young Patrick appear in the movie The Quiet Man". The actor playing Wayne's other son in the movie (Michael) was actually Robert Mitchum's son Christopher. I noticed that John Wayne was wearing his Montagnard bracelet from his trip to S. Vietnam in conjunction with making the movie "The Green Berets" in 1967. I watched the movie at an outdoor theater at Cam Ranh Bay, S. Viet. when released in 1968. The brass bracelets were popular with the troops. After returning from Viet. I wound up meeting the stunt man who did all of the motorcycle stunts. He & I both raced sprint cars at Ascot Park in Calif.
Love the John Wayne movies.
My dad was a huge John Wayne fan so I saw a lot of these movies on TV with him, I love this one.
This is one of my 5 favorite John Wayne movies, along with The Cowboys, Hellfighters, McClintock and Donovan's Reef
Richard Boone was in a tv series called "Have Gun, Will Travel" (the title was borrowed by Robert A. Heinlein for my favorite science fiction book, "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"), where he played "Paladin" a somewhat refined, wealthy cowboy who went around helping people.
He also played General Sam Houston (the same one the city is named for), in John Wayne's "The Alamo".
(How can you call yourself 'merican if you haven't seen The Alamo with John Wayne as Congressman Davy Crockett?)
He was also in John Wayne's last movie, "The Shootist".
After that, he also had a short-lived tv series called "Hec Ramsey", where he played an old-fashioned lawman at the turn of the 20th century (I think the guy who plays his boss was also in The Shootist).
Yes, John Wayne cast two of his sons in this movie, as well as close friend Robert Mitchum's son.
A few years previous he had wanted to cast his daughter Aissa in the "Mattie Ross" role in "True Grit". But, whereas "Big Jake" was a Batjac production, Wayne's own company, True Grit was a studio film and he didn't have casting approval, and Kim Darby had already been cast.
Always good to watch The Duke.
Now you two need to see some of his earlier movies and then for variety, _'In Harm's Way'_ for W.W. II and _'The Green Berets'_ for Vietnam.
A lot of people view this as sort of a sequel to McClintock. The names are similar (not to mention using the same sets for the town, train depot, and ranch house), plus you have Maureen O'Hara and Patrick Wayne in virtually the same parts.
Dog 🐶 was my favorite character in Big Jake.
Weird fact: this film film premiered in theaters with a GP (precursor to PG) rating. Then it re-released as "family fare" with a slightly edited G rating in 1972. Then it was left uncut without change to the G rating until 2003 when it got the PG-13 rating for Western Violence. Strangely enough, it still airs on family channels with a TV-G rating with the violence totally uncensored, but with the light language bleeped out. This is me and my grandparents' favorite John Wayne movie! My grandmother recalled her own grandmother, my great-great-grandmother, getting so mad when she realized the brothers onscreen were not brothers in real life. She was so convinced by the chemistry of the cast!
G rated movies had a much greater tolerance for violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s.The Green Berets had a G rating despite lots of violence including people being killed in punji traps and burning bodies hanging on barbed wire. Planet of the Apes had violence (and nudity and profanity) and a G rating (Conquest of the planet of the Apes was the only one of the original series not to get a G rating). Other G rated movies with violence include Tora, Tora, Tora and 2001.
The deer, that is a quarter mile away, startles and runs when it notices John Wayne and Chris Mitchum watching it. However, the scene with the deer comes right after Mitchum emptied his entire pistol magazine, which apparently did not startle the animal. I guess the deer must have been deaf.
Yes, that is Patrick Wayne who starred in several movies with his father, John.
He appeared in 9 John Wayne movies according to IMDB.
Hi guys. Richard Boone (the head bad guy) had a tremendous resume in movies and TV. He played a bad guy again in Wayne's final movie The Shootist, which is a great Wayne movie as well, co-starring Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard. Boone had a 6 or 7 year run on TV as Paladin in a series called Have Gun Will Travel. For a western with some laughs as well also co-starring Maureen O'Hara I highly recommend McClintock. His film The Green Berets is also a good watch. For a different kind of Wayne film there is a movie called Trouble Along the Way co-starring Donna Reed (Mary from it's a Wonderful Life). He plays a single Dad and football coach.
The Gunfighter 1950 with Gregory Peck, The Fastest Gun Alive 1956 with Glenn Ford, and True Grit (1969) with John Wayne..three great westerns..
Pat Wayne was in The Comancheros and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with John Wayne.
The man playing Buck the ranger was the undertaker in "The Sons of Katie Elder" (I said I have trouble watching it, not that I never did).
The man playing Sam played "The Indian" Littlewolf in "Hatari!" with Wayne. He was also in "Hellfighters" and "The Green Berets" with Wayne.
The one son early in the movie who is back home recovering…is Bobby Vinton everyone’s favorite singer in the 70’s…Roses Are Red,, Blue Velvet, Blue on Blue..and so many more..
The 'terrifying' guy who hadn't bathed in 4 years...
Was the son of one of Wayne's best friends, Harry Carey Sr (so he's Harry Carey Jr).
When Wayne and Senior were stuntmen together, they invented the barroom brawl.
You will see Jr in several John Wayne movies, such as "The Searchers", "The Three Godfathers", "Rio Grande", and my favorite "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon".
But, you won't recognize him. He's bathed and clean-shaven.
(Pat Wayne had a cameo in "The Searchers").
This film took place in 1909. John Wayne was two years old!
THANK YOU , FOR DOING THIS REACTION!! The last decade of John Wayne were some of the best....!!
There were 2 dogs. One was named Silver and the second was Laddie, who did the stunts.
In the scene where 3 men are standing together and Wayne asks where his other son is & Patrick says "he'll be here," the man on the extreme left is John Wayne's stand-in and stuntman in many films.
The man on the motorcycle is Chris Mitchum (actor Robert Mitchum's younger son).
Dog wranglers often use more than one dog during a film shoot. There were 3 Lassies during the filming of that series (all related).
My late father and I had a very wonderful relationship. My parents divorced when I was a baby, then reintroduced when I was 13. We became not only father and son but best buds! Well, as the years went on, I used Patrick Wayne's "Daddy" tone many times! In same context , too lol. Dad never hit me. I irritated him with this so what did dad do? He dropped his head ,started to laugh , then gave me a big hug and an "I love you, son"....
One of my favorite movies, so much I named my son Jacob in 1983. He loves the movie. Neighbor across the street had a son named Jacob also he was a couple years younger. We called him little Jake and my son was Big Jake!
My mom watched this movie right be4 she went into labor with me. Thank you mom for changing my name to Jacob. And starbuck is doing better. 2 cancers and she's still kicking ass😊.
Dog was two collies, Silver and Laddie ( Lassie Jr.) They died them because they looked identical to their mother Lassie.😊
John Wayne was one of those western legends like Clint Eastwood, James Arness and Lee Marvin.
Both Wayne’s are his sons. Just different mothers and enough years between the two the younger one has to play his grandson in the movie
In real life John Chism never carried a gun but try telling that to John Wayne.
No way you guys are going into Wayne movies? The Cowboys and The Shootist, you need to do those. Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, and El dorado are good, True Grit and Rooster Cogburn are a good pair. Here's one that doesn't get a lot of mention but is one of my favorites: The Sons of Katie Elder. But Big Jake is the ultimate, good choice! Personal fav is The Shootist but more because it was his last and is about life, its not as action packed. And don't forget about The Green Berets (Vietnam) and The Sands of Iwo Jima (WW2).
Other people name other movies - True Grit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (one of my favorites), and for some reason, The Searchers - but if anyone ever asks me "Who's John Wayne?" THIS is the movie I'll show them.
It was the same dog in every scene (Son of Lassie). The colored him black every morning but the dye faded quickly.
Actually, Waynes son Ethan played his grandson. Ethan was named after Waynes favorite character from "The Searchers". Christopher Mitchum, son of actor Robert Mitchum played his son on the dirt bike.
this movie was a yearly (at least) watch for me, one of my favorite John Wayne movies of all time ( he has a few for me). Oh and the point of the crazy motorcycle at the "ambush" was just as a distraction, to keep the bad guys from killing more of the sheriffs men.
So yes John Wayne had his kid and probably his real grandson but there was Christopher Mitchem son of famous movie star Robert Mitchem.
Richard Boone back in the day played antihero/hero Paladin iconic western TV hero played bad guy here so well. Thís movie is chock full of classic western movie and tv stars of the day and before the day.
Favorite all time line that after this movie I have heard in different genres of other movies: I thought you were dead. Not hardly.
Awesome pick love this movie. Great reaction :)
Try John Wayne in Hatari and Donovan's Reef for a change of pace. You absolutely have to see his last movie before he died. The movie The Shootist is perfect to remember him by. Many of the actors that were cast in this appeared for little or no money. They knew the Duke was very sick at the time with cancer. He had to take oxygen between scenes. He changed the movie ending because it pissed him off.
Seems like John Wayne movies always had these kinda friendly fist fights in them
The dog in the movie was Lassie, painted darker color.
The exchange between Martha and Jake when the Rangers consider going in with the cars is one of my all-time favorite scenes across any movie. When Jake says, "No, you made the decision alone, you live it alone." Then she says, "You haven't changed.."
"Not one bit!"
Sam and dog are definitely the unsung heroes, but Jake definitely stands above the rest.
And I agree, The Shootest, with an All-Star cast, is my favorite just ahead of Big Jake and The Cowboys. Rio Lobo, for me, is slightly better than Rio Bravo, but Dean Martin is excellent as Dude.
I liked Mitchum as the drunken sheriff in El Dorado, but both are great in their own way.
None of the real life Bergmann semi-auto pistols had a magazine in the grip. They all had a magazine in front of the trigger. That big curved bulge you can see in front of the triggerguard of the pistol in the movie is what the magazine in a real Bergmann 1896 looked like. The gun used in this movie is a Walther P-38 dressed to sort of resemble the silhouette of a Bergmann 1896. The rreal life Bergmann 1910 and 1912 had a rectangular magazine that that stuck straight down in front of the triggerguard like the magaziine on a broomhandle Mauser.
Cattle ranchers hated sheep because sheep pull the grass up by the roots, whereas cows and horses sheer it off.
Most John Wayne movies you have very clear lines between evil and good. Unlike movies today where everything is gray.
Richard Boone, the villain, played Paladin, the hero of Have Gun Will Travel
Sam , the Indian friend was played by Bruce Cabot , the leading man and romantic interest in 1933 s King Kong and Fay Wray 's lover . He was in several John Wayne movies in his latter years . He and Wayne were friends and drinking buddies . If this was a Batjac { John Wayne ] production it was produced by his eldest son Michael Wayne .
This is one of my top three John Wayne films. Loved watching it as a kid with my father.
John Wayne named his son Ethan after the character he played in The Searchers.
Jake's son Michael is played by Robert Mitchum's son Christopher.
1 million dollars in 1909 is equivalent to 30 million dollars today.
The son on the motorcycle is actually Christopher Mitchum, the son of the famous actor Robert Mitchum.
LOVE him repeating Slim Pickens bull sht back at him...one of my favorite lines in Any movie
One of my favorite John Wayne movies. Patrick Wayne also plays Pat Garrett in Young Guns.
Since you are watching so much 70's movies I might give you a list .
1-) Midnight Express
2-) Sorcerer 1977
3-) Martin 1977
4-) Dawn Of The Dead 1978
5-) Marathon Man 1976
6- ) One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest...
John Wayne will be my favorite character in any movie he’s in- but next to him, his sons AND his good friend Robert Mitchum’ as on played Michael.
Trivia: The automobiles driven by the Texas Rangers with the "REO" emblem are NOT REO Speedwagons but rather Touring Cars from the same manufacturer, the REO Motor Company. The REO company was named for its founder Random E. Olds who would go on to found the Oldsmobile company which later became a division of General Motors. The REO Speedwagon did actually exist and was one of the first commercially available "Pick-Up Trucks" produced first in 1926.
Two collies, trained by Robert Weatherwax and Rudd Weatherwax, played Dog, John Wayne's faithful companion: Silver and Laddie (Lassie Jr.) for the stunts. Eventually Laddie won a PATSY award for his performance in this film.
they dyed the dogs coats but the water scenes the dye was washing out during filming
FYI - the screenwriters for Big Jake also wrote Dirty Harry. Memorable quotes… “… my fault, your fault, nobody’s fault… “ and “… did he fire six shots or was it only five?”
John Wayne turned down the role of Dirty Harry. fyi.
Little late getting here 😃 I was watching John Wayne in The Alamo 😊
When I was a kid they showed John Wayne (and older movies) on the Late Late Show (movies after the news) on Saturday nights. That's where I first saw two of my favorite Duke films - Big Jake & Hatari. Hatari is about professional game catchers with a bit of Rom/Com thrown in. Shot on location in Tanganyika (what is now Tanzania) this Howard Hawks film is full of beautiful scenery, animals and laughs. Definitely worth a watch and I believe currently it's free on You Tube.
Fun reaction. Good to see you know John Wayne movies and appreciate them. Yeah. Dog was a great actor that he could change his coloring. Why wasn't he recognized with an Oscar? 😉
Just subbed.
Michael McCandles was played by Christopher Mitchum who is actor Robert Mitchum's second son.
This was a one off.
When John Wayne picked the fight with Mr. Sweet he gets back up and puts on the derby. This could be a bit of an ode to one of his buddies Oliver Hardy. Babe Hardy and the Duke were very good friends. They did one movie together while Stan Laurel was suffering complications from diabetes. The movie was The Fighting Kentuckian (1949).
For those that don't know, Laurel and Hardy go back to the silent era as a comedy team. Stanley was actually Chaplin's understudy when they were in Fred Karno's Circus. The Music Box is the comedy duo's most famous short and won an academy award for best live action short (comedy).
This is one of my favorite John Wayne movies...but also check out some of my other favorites: Rio Bravo and El Dorado.
To be clear though Richard Boone was not a famous bad guy. He is most famous for the role of Paladin, which was the lead in the '50s/60s TV western series HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL. He only played bad guys at the end of his career.
3 actors much better remembered as bad guys in '50s and '60s westerns are Bruce Dern, Claude Akins and Jack Elam. And all three became so beloved for their bad guy roles they were transitioned to good guys at the end of their careers. Jack Elam, for instance, got 2 short lived situation comedies, THE TEXAS WHEELERS, in the '70s and in the '80s, EASY STREET (a BEVERLY HILLBILLIES clone co-starring Loni Anderson). Claude Akins too got a '70s sitcom about truckers, called MOVIN ON. And you may encounter bad guy Bruce Dern in good guy roles in the movies SILENT RUNNING, THE BURBS and his final film NEBRASKA, if you ever get around to reacting to them. (All great picks by the way if you do).
As to this movie it was a good watch that didn't require a lot of brain power to enjoy. My only beef with it is the way they tried to portray it in the beginning as if it was a true story. For some reason I hate it when Hollywood does that.
Great John Wayne reaction - His last film, "The Shootist" is one of my favorites. If you ever get the chance, two westerns that really like are:
- Red Sun (starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune, in an East meets West western)
- Lonesome Dove (the TV Mini-series starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval)
I'm with Mrs. Movies. Sam was my favorite character. I'm not going to say where this ranks among my favorite John Wayne movies because it's going to sound low, but that's just because there are so many that even something like 15th favorite would be in the upper percentile. Also my ranking depends on my mood.
The saddest death ever was poor old dog. What a guy.