John Wayne: Five Great Entrances

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  • STAGECOACH (1939)
    HONDO (1953)
    THE SEARCHERS (1956)
    CHISUM (1970)
    BIG JAKE (1971)
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  • @user-ud3yb7qc2g
    @user-ud3yb7qc2g 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nobody ever set a horse like John Wayne

  • @Myrdden71
    @Myrdden71 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Big Jake's entrance has always been my favorite. That whole scene with the sheep-herder and the guys wanting to hang him just sets up Jake's character so perfectly.

    • @jerryjeromehawkins1712
      @jerryjeromehawkins1712 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      One of my top five movies of all time. 👍🏽🇺🇸

    • @OntarioBearHunter
      @OntarioBearHunter ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yup my favourite too..
      " ahhh.. what'd he have to go and do that for..."

    • @tjflash60
      @tjflash60 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Big Jake is one of the best of all time!

    • @ThePatriotPoet23
      @ThePatriotPoet23 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now you went and made me Mad

    • @tombearclaw
      @tombearclaw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dog

  • @johntabler349
    @johntabler349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    Westerns are divided into two categories John Wayne and other

    • @michaelmyers2343
      @michaelmyers2343 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      The two categories are John Wayne and Clint Eastwood

    • @ethanwood9124
      @ethanwood9124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Michael Myers Clint Eastwood>>>>>>John Wayne

    • @ethanwood9124
      @ethanwood9124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Zy 35 no way

    • @ethanwood9124
      @ethanwood9124 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zy 35 no I didn’t I just disagreed with this comment

    • @williamdowden4494
      @williamdowden4494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      john tabler that’s how my collection is organized.

  • @crazyelf8433
    @crazyelf8433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    "The Searchers" is, in my opinion, Mr. Wayne's greatest movie!
    He was, to all accounts, the essence of the "anti-hero" in this saga!
    There will never be another actor of his stature again!

    • @prestonnull4009
      @prestonnull4009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes totally agree.

    • @viewingut
      @viewingut 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ditto!

    • @sdone7672
      @sdone7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Crazy elf couldn't agree more, should of won him an Oscar.

    • @christianemden7637
      @christianemden7637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@sdone7672 it would have been more deserving than the performance in true grit. I think his three best performances are Red river, the searchers and the shootist. But my favorite will always be ElDorado.

    • @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment
      @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My two favorite John Wayne films would have to be Rio Bravo and Red River.
      Rio Bravo was a great response to High Noon--essentially Howard Hawks and John Wayne set out to make "High Noon as it should have been"--and as Quentin Tarantino's noted, it's a great "hangout" film, focusing on the growing friendship of the heros and heroine.
      Red River, like Searchers, has Wayne as an antihero--arguably an anti-villain, descending into madness over his obsessions over success.

  • @barbaras6792
    @barbaras6792 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    John Wayne was ‘The Duke’. What a star he was. He was simply the best. Rather watch him than anybody. Remember the award he received - ‘John Wayne - American’ ? Love and John Wayne memories to all, from England 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @garym6315
    @garym6315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I LOVE that "what did he have go and do that for" line. That totally gets across his sense of justice as he was willing to mind his own business and go his own way, till they picked on a helpless kid. Which then ties in with the whole point of the film

    • @BigDrewISBOSS
      @BigDrewISBOSS ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Big Jake is my favorite John Wayne movie. It might not be the best but I could watch it anytime

    • @Bunny-8889
      @Bunny-8889 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Your right sets up he is a sucker for a child ( and/or family) I never thought of that great point - thanks for your Perspective!!

  • @smg85051
    @smg85051 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The closing scene of The Searchers, when John Wayne reaches across his chest and grasps his other arm, he is paying tribute to fellow actor and friend, Harry Carey Sr.; it was his signature move. His son, Harry Jr. was also in The Searchers

  • @robertabrown2152
    @robertabrown2152 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It is a true testament to Mr. Wayne, that 44 years after his death we are still debating which was the best movie he made and which one we like the best. Personally, I always loved Donovan's Reef, probably not his best movie, but I have always loved it.

  • @james5460
    @james5460 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The whole opening the door on the Old West and then closing it in The Searchers is just brilliant.

  • @alverstone14586
    @alverstone14586 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When I was in college I took a film study course. My professor, at the time, said that the class would meet many great actors in this course but "only one had it all. And that was John Wayne".

  • @freddillard6775
    @freddillard6775 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Searchers is by far, one my favorite movies. I believe it should of been given an Oscar.

  • @MB-cx2ks
    @MB-cx2ks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I get chills every time at the opening and ending scenes of The Searchers.

  • @strwbrypop
    @strwbrypop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    This man could have walked into a coffee shop and sat down and it would have been a memorable entrance!

    • @Bubbles99718
      @Bubbles99718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He grinds the beans with each stride.

    • @robinjackson7882
      @robinjackson7882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      strwbrypop He walked into the candy department of Robinson’s at Newport Center and everybody knew who he was, but he wasn’t in a movie and had his children with him. I waited on him many times. Loved him to death...literally

    • @andrewman111ah
      @andrewman111ah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Says someone's grandpa

    • @andrewman111ah
      @andrewman111ah 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      jacksonjackson yeah right....just shut up

    • @knoodelhed
      @knoodelhed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Grandpa lived in Costa Mesa and knew him personally!

  • @joseywales1869
    @joseywales1869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Searchers for me anyday of the week

  • @sheryl146
    @sheryl146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Perfect choices. I loved each and every one! John Wayne sat higher in the saddle than any man I ever saw.

  • @mr.aldini6801
    @mr.aldini6801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    John Wayne movies have got me through a lot of tough times.

  • @jadefire2817
    @jadefire2817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    He really *was* so much more talented than ever given credit for. I heard someone once say it was because he made it look ridiculously easy .

    • @spnkysy791
      @spnkysy791 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      John Wayne was a natural..

    • @peterangel7166
      @peterangel7166 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@spnkysy791😅

  • @thomasjorge4734
    @thomasjorge4734 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That Searches Entrance was Classic!

  • @ilove8788
    @ilove8788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm watching this for my online home work lol🤣🤣

  • @me5768
    @me5768 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved all of these movies. This is where I got my addiction to revolvers.

  • @mongo053ster
    @mongo053ster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Thank the Lord we have his movies to remember him by. Sure do miss seeing his new movie released each year.

  • @williamshea4425
    @williamshea4425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Movies like these filled your heart with hope, goodness and a Saturday afternoon on the couch after a long work week looking forward to a wonderful meal. I cleaned the house, did the laundry and my beautiful wife cooked the meals. I did the dishes because she told me 37 years ago, I'll cook but you clean. Yes mam. Understood. She doesn't like John Wayne westerns but she loves the fact that I do.

  • @victorjeffers1993
    @victorjeffers1993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Big Jake & Chisum & Eldorado well heck just bout all of John Wayne's westerns are my favorites along with bout all of Clint Eastwood's as well ! Those were the days !

    • @svene.3856
      @svene.3856 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ Now that I think about it: YES! Wayne and Eastwood together in a movie would have been great !

  • @leoderosia9279
    @leoderosia9279 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Searchers and red river were his best....a larger than life certified american legend, RIP duke you were the best and inspired tens of millions of us

    • @johntabler349
      @johntabler349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't forget his underappreciated turn in Three Godfathers to any one who says he could not act

  • @foxsquirrel3038
    @foxsquirrel3038 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The world is a lesser place without John Wayne...

  • @lubeman62
    @lubeman62 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "The Searchers" is still my personal all-time favorite...👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻...thanks for posting these!

  • @drewryce6278
    @drewryce6278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The Duke's long ride across the frozen prarie at the beginning of The Shootist is one of the great opening sequences of all time.

    • @StevieGPT
      @StevieGPT ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't decide between Big Jake or the Shootist, both are just great works of art defining the character.

  • @colinbrown7310
    @colinbrown7310 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That Searchers entrance, like the exit, is unbeatable, pure magic from Mr Ford!

  • @spnkysy791
    @spnkysy791 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That does it. Time for a John Wayne movie tonight!

  • @marstondavis
    @marstondavis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    All very good movies. As time goes by I can't think of any other actor with more 'presence' than John Wayne. No Matter who else is in the scene your eyes are on him. He's not a scene stealer, he's just 'THERE'.

    • @jeffstanley4593
      @jeffstanley4593 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I would disagree. He is not just "there", he is the scene.

    • @crazyelf8433
      @crazyelf8433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Marston Davis
      Even when other Actors, of "A List" Calibre, are present - Mr. Wayne takes the scene!

    • @damienholland8103
      @damienholland8103 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert Deniro from Casino in 1995 and his earlier movies. Marlon Brando. Martin Sheen. Charles Bronson.

    • @joserosales3572
      @joserosales3572 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      J

    • @seanfitzpatrick4730
      @seanfitzpatrick4730 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Robert Mitchum was better

  • @johndates9827
    @johndates9827 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    IMO "The Searchers" (1956) has the best intro scene of any western. John Ford and Wayne were hitting on all cylinders with this film. The music and photography still brings a tear whenever I view this movie. Ford may have also redeemed himself after the disaster where he was fired as the director of "Mister Roberts" in 1955. Sadly, it also ended his friendship with Henry Fonda.
    "The Searchers" was a great comeback for Ford.

    • @dongilleo9743
      @dongilleo9743 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The best of the entrances here, Hondo, The Searchers, and Chisum all feature John Wayne approaching or first seen from a distance, and no dialogue. Without even speaking his mere presence sets a tone and mood. In The Searchers, he doesn't say anything as he comes up to the house, is greeted, and finally goes in, and yet the look on his face, how he moves, the way the other characters react to him, speaks volumes about who and what his character is. Same thing with Hondo, where the look he has on his face as he approaches is almost frightening: this is a hard, no nonsense, serious man.

    • @mikeyoung9810
      @mikeyoung9810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Loved the Searchers and Mister Roberts.

    • @redrock3109
      @redrock3109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The ending of The Searchers isn't bad either! What a GREAT film!

  • @user-pg3pe4gx4p
    @user-pg3pe4gx4p 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    John Wayne was all American greatness.

  • @schuberttim
    @schuberttim 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In "The Searchers" always remember every time that you see Ethan with his brother's wife that she was the woman he loved but gave up because he knew that his brother could make her happy while he couldn't. It gives an extra emotional kick to their scenes together..

  • @sundownsigns
    @sundownsigns 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The entrance in Hondo was memorable to me as a seven year old seeing it in 3D in 1953. Stays in my mind all these years.

  • @mistyhammond753
    @mistyhammond753 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love every thing I've seen him in, that's my man!! Always a badass, always on the good side.

  • @63002
    @63002 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I agree with people who say The Searchers is the best but thats like picking what child is your favorite. He should have definitely won an Oscar for his stunning performance.

  • @garyhampton4311
    @garyhampton4311 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    You could also include the final moments of The Searchers, where John Wayne remains outside the house and the finally reunited family - one of the finest endings to one of the best Westerns ever made.

    • @aleccrombie7923
      @aleccrombie7923 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Definatly Oscar material

  • @williamwallace872
    @williamwallace872 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my favorite, fun movies, McClintock.

  • @russellcampbell9198
    @russellcampbell9198 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Serchers intro and outro - unbeatable.

  • @mikehuggins3463
    @mikehuggins3463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One of the top five opening scenes in movie history "The Searchers".

  • @SuperGuitarDude7
    @SuperGuitarDude7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Great choices! He had so many great movies. Big Jake was always a favorite of mine. The Searchers, too. Of course, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, Stagecoach, Cahil U.S. Marshall, Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, The Train Robbers, The Longest Day, Sands Of Iwo Jima, The Shootist, etc. etc. etc. are pretty much all favorites of mine too!

    • @KrillLiberator
      @KrillLiberator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I can't remember if it was in Cahill or McClintock where there's a scene by a stream; the Duke has a prisoner and he's trying to bring him in, but a posse confronts him at a ford and he just faces them down, with a few stern but non-provocative words. They give way and he rides on.
      It's not that it's a stand-out scene, but for two things; my granfa was watching that scene (because watching that movie on VHS) when I got home from college *three times* in a row over the course of a few weeks, so it stuck, and the casual employment of charisma, calm insistent manliness and matter-of-fact "so you'll have to back it up" bluntness always won me over.
      But 'Sands' is still my favourite - and I believe the USMC loves it too.

    • @TheAzmountaineer
      @TheAzmountaineer ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KrillLiberator He says, "Ah, git outta the way!" and just rides right through them. Classic John Wayne!

  • @vonnishee8787
    @vonnishee8787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    John Wayne....the last real man to ever live...... he died the year i turned 15 it was like losing my father.

  • @orangeblue789
    @orangeblue789 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Big Jake.. I love when he comes into town and meets his oldest son after a long time.

  • @theoutspokenhumanist
    @theoutspokenhumanist 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In recent years it has become common to attempt to tear down our favourite people and reveal their human weaknesses but John Wayne was the iconic hero in so many iconic westerns. There have been other excellent actors in such movies but never anyone better.

  • @johnscallan5648
    @johnscallan5648 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Stagecoach - best entrance anywhere, any time, any movie.

    • @utubetommy
      @utubetommy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That entrance made him a Star.

    • @spnkysy791
      @spnkysy791 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My favorite and have watched it many times..

  • @PaulKyriazi
    @PaulKyriazi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Audiences laughed and cheered in Big Jake when Maureen O'Hara said ".... we need an extremely harsh man...." and they cut to a close-up of Wayne. You saved the best entrance for last.

    • @svene.3856
      @svene.3856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I saw that movie this evening. It has it's comical parts. I can only imagine the experience of watching John Wayne's movies in cinema...

    • @PaulKyriazi
      @PaulKyriazi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@svene.3856 I remember two guys sitting in the audience laughing big when John Wayne poured whiskey on his son's butt wound and he yelled. Then in the audience one guy said to the other "Is this a comedy or an action movie." He said that with great happiness, loving the comedic touches.

    • @svene.3856
      @svene.3856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PaulKyriazi Thanks for sharing this story. Yes, it really switches between comedy and violence, but in a good and balanced way. I remember the great first time feeling of watching his movies for the first time as a teenager (28 now) and especially watching Big Jake. A little bit like small adventures.

    • @PaulKyriazi
      @PaulKyriazi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@svene.3856 Yes, or in the case of going to a sneak preview and only know it's a Charlen Heston movie called 'Planet of the Apes' and nothing else; no trailer, no poster, no word of production and those apes attack the humans with the bull horn. That remains a giant adventure.

    • @svene.3856
      @svene.3856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PaulKyriazi I didn't know about that yet.

  • @IamChevalier
    @IamChevalier ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have to go with Chisum...
    Wayne sitting on his horse - on a hill top - with that backdrop - the musical score was perfect. Anytime I think of him, this is the type of image that always come to mind.

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A man surveying his kingdom. Epic America.

  • @nycdweller
    @nycdweller 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “The Searchers” is the best western/movie ever made!

  • @williamdowden4494
    @williamdowden4494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a man.

  • @aurelian7831
    @aurelian7831 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the beginning of Chisum as he looks over his land and the end of the movie doing the same thing.

  • @airguy71
    @airguy71 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    0:16 the exact moment The Duke became a star. IMHO the greatest movie star of all time.

    • @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW
      @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      airguy71 👍 yes he is ☝️🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @H.pylori
    @H.pylori 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Agree, all good. Wayne personified the Old West.

  • @emilymary99
    @emilymary99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Great video, thank you for posting, I grew up watching his movies in B&W on TV in the 60's, and I still watch them now
    I love his movies, he was and is such an enormous presence on the screen, for me there's no one who comes close to him, thank you Duke

    • @dongilleo9743
      @dongilleo9743 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I watch every John Wayne movie that comes on TV, even though I've seen them countless times before. Always enjoy them. What current actors, and their movies, will people still be watching and enjoying some 40 years after the actor has passed away?

  • @flintrichards945
    @flintrichards945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Duke.....what else needs to be said ! 🇺🇸

  • @stevewhite8059
    @stevewhite8059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Stage coach and The Searchers. Both of them beautiful intros for Duke. For pure poetry on film, The Searchers wins it for me (just like the entire film), but as an introduction which shouts out 'THIS IS JOHN WAYNE', John Ford probably did Duke the biggest favour of his career with that scene alone. John Ford, John Wayne - two of the reasons I love cinema. Thanks for this vid.

    • @download77
      @download77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Steve White a hundred years from now the Searchers will be regarded with the same respect as a Renaissance masterwork.

    • @stevewhite8059
      @stevewhite8059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@download77 Amen to that. Everything about this film is beautiful. I have no doubt that Ford himself would have denied to our faces that he was creating an artistic masterpiece, but you dont just accidentally stumble in to making something that perfect while working in such a technically intricate media such as cinema. I can watch this film over and over and i always marvel at how Ford and his entire cast and crew came together to make such a work of art. What a thing to have on your cv!
      Yes, I think I like this film!

    • @russellcampbell9198
      @russellcampbell9198 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Steve White Agree.

    • @jamesarchibald6207
      @jamesarchibald6207 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      aye the searchers greatest western ever ford and dukes finest moment regardless of what that bawbag tarantino says about ford.

    • @haroldcovey4193
      @haroldcovey4193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I grew up being taught that the Duke represented the best things that every decent, non-liberal American wanted to represent and believe in and I still do. There's at least one or two movies of his I haven't seen. One of my favorite scenes for a bit of humor was in Donovan's Reef where he comes out of the water onto a beach. He reaches into his shirt pocket for a smoke and when he pulls out a soaked cigarette he tosses it away in a fashion only he could be famous for. "Saddle up. We're burning daylight."

  • @actionjackson1stIDF
    @actionjackson1stIDF ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Excellent choices on the opening scenes. To me personally my favorite opening movie scene of John Wayne is not from a western. It is from what I personally believe is his best movie ever and that is "The Quite Man". His character has just arrived by train and is trying to find someone who can direct him to his childhood home town in Ireland.. Meanwhile Ward Bond's voice can be heard describing Wayne's character in a retrospective manner and how different he is from a typical American Tourist.

    • @hk_802
      @hk_802 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I grew up on John Wayne movies, my dad had them on all the time.. and gotta say, I think I had Quiet Man playing the most.

  • @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW
    @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    JOHN WAYNE IS MY HERO I even named my cat John Wayne and my dog Duke 😎 My cat survived a coyote attack he got 30 stitches but he's fine it must be the name that made him so tough 👍🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @Steve-wm1ol
    @Steve-wm1ol ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can't go wrong with Hondo. Louis l'Amour's first book under his own name, and spectacularly good as well.

  • @harleymetcalfe1908
    @harleymetcalfe1908 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    never a better entrance than The Searchers, nor a better exit than The Searchers. We all need a bit more Duke these days.

  • @crisshernandes7573
    @crisshernandes7573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    GRANDE JOHN WAYNE . GRAN ACTOR Y SUS GRANDES PELICULAS QUE MARCARON A GENERACIONES ..... SALUDOS AMIGOS

  • @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW
    @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great video I loved it 👍 John Wayne is awesome ☝️😎🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @matthewmiller9526
    @matthewmiller9526 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Searchers entrance off that Texas prairie to the strains of Lorena is pure Americana, in 1000 years when they think of America I hope it’s that.

  • @bigisland48
    @bigisland48 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hondo, Big Jake & The Searchers some of the coldest openings 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @dougied4790
    @dougied4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The entrance shot of John Wayne in the 1939 Stagecoach movie is the scene that was said to have made him a star. I agree.

    • @utubetommy
      @utubetommy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yup... me, too. Till then, he was rated as an actor in "B" westerns. That close up propelled him to "A" star status, and he never looked back.

    • @citizenken7069
      @citizenken7069 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was definitely the movie that made him a star.

    • @jz55859
      @jz55859 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely agree. I'm 67 but 60 years ago my mother made me sit down and watch Stagecoach telling me the opening shot of him "Wowed" everyone and made him a star.

    • @dougied4790
      @dougied4790 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jz55859 👍🏼 👍🏼 Yes sir, a John Ford western starring John Wayne still gets my immediate attention today, as it did for me 65 years ago.

  • @williamlozier5454
    @williamlozier5454 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Big Jake. My favorite JW film..and yes the best opening ever. Thanks Pilgrim.

    • @utubetommy
      @utubetommy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mine is The Quiet Man.

  • @tonyhemingway7980
    @tonyhemingway7980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It can't be considered as an entrance but the best beginning to a movie was the shootist, where they show clips from his past.

  • @flagal519
    @flagal519 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Big John ! Always loved him.

  • @dougmayo877
    @dougmayo877 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I named my son after him and I cried when he died

  • @Qui-GonJohn
    @Qui-GonJohn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfection.............The Searchers

  • @russellkellett9535
    @russellkellett9535 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The greatest toughest actor of all time

  • @mikerieck306
    @mikerieck306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The Searchers....one of the greatest movies ever made.

    • @andrewman111ah
      @andrewman111ah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Says someone's delusional grandpa

    • @robertrock8778
      @robertrock8778 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gotta agree with Mike. Duke's best movie.

    • @mikeyoung9810
      @mikeyoung9810 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree Mike.

    • @mikeyoung9810
      @mikeyoung9810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@andrewman111ah Says someone's 13 year old.

  • @Ronin4614
    @Ronin4614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    John was given a piece of advice about how to walk, and I think it was Harry Carry who gave him the advice. He told John with each step ahead John should point his foot and his toes straight ahead. Doing this would give him the unique shoulder roll that The Duke developed. Try it some time, and don't trip over your toes doing it.;-)

    • @williamsweeney6499
      @williamsweeney6499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jim Perry , I read it was Paul Fix.

    • @Ronin4614
      @Ronin4614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      -----Hey, William! Ya know, that does sound familiar, and I thank you for the course correction. It was a long, long time ago that I ran across that tidbit and I have always had to work at remembering names. Wasn't Paul Fix the actor who acted a the sheriff "Mica" on the western series "The Rifleman"? Thanks again for the reply, William. :-)

  • @whynot2734
    @whynot2734 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chisum 1970 I was 6yrs old first movie that I understood just how different and good John Wayne was

  • @bugvswindshield
    @bugvswindshield ปีที่แล้ว

    A fantastic god blessen' America video if I've seen one.
    I own all of these films.
    God Blessed the Duke.
    Time for more , no thanks, i'm gonna do whats right, consequences be damned my family needs me types of hero's. Men.

  • @xBruno700x
    @xBruno700x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tranquilein john wayne

  • @bluetickfreddy101
    @bluetickfreddy101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A great role model never to be duplicated

    • @seanfitzpatrick4730
      @seanfitzpatrick4730 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not as popular but Robert Mitchum was better

    • @abehambino
      @abehambino ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seanfitzpatrick4730 no. Mitchum’s good but he ain’t the Duke!

  • @carlaaustin6054
    @carlaaustin6054 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think McClintock and the Hellfighters i enjoy watching over and over. The best though, is Green Berets. The last scene with the boy and him makes me cry every time.

  • @tmcge3325
    @tmcge3325 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Wayne was Eastwood before Eastwood was Eastwood!!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine a young John Wayne acting today? He'd kick everybody's ass!! I think the Quiet Man scene when he grabs O'hara and pulls her in for a kiss just might be one of the best love scenes ever done! Also, no foul language and no nudity.....pure and simple great John Wayne movies for EVERYBODY TO ENJOY!

    • @mikeyoung9810
      @mikeyoung9810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Loved Wayne and Eastwood and The Quiet Man is one of my all time favorite films.

    • @garyurquhart2468
      @garyurquhart2468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Born in 1974 but brought up watching the Duke The Serchers, The Quiet Man and Big Jake are my Favourites can't Choose between them.

    • @callofthewillman4469
      @callofthewillman4469 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eastwood ain't shit. Best movie he did was thunderbolt and lighfoot

    • @utubetommy
      @utubetommy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The other scene is the kiss in the old cemetery when it was storming, and Maureen O'hara kissed the Duke a second time... something a woman in love would do. Very believable and erotic. They were a great team in the movies they made together.

    • @tmcge3325
      @tmcge3325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@utubetommy very good friends, Wayne played chess with her husband often.

  • @randyhodder8186
    @randyhodder8186 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The" Duke"...my hero!!!

  • @smokey4519
    @smokey4519 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Big Jake entrance has always been my favorite

  • @realguitarshredder
    @realguitarshredder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The second entrance music was just amazing

  • @margeconnors1505
    @margeconnors1505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Donovan's Reef and They Were Expendable are my 2 favorites of The Duke's

  • @loubianco6248
    @loubianco6248 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I enjoyed that, nice job, thank you for posting it.

  • @drumlover1687
    @drumlover1687 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Duke. American legend.

  • @georgebalsa9853
    @georgebalsa9853 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the great, if not the greatest actors of all time

  • @justbecause4042
    @justbecause4042 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    I'd rather see his exits. If there is a better exit than his little strut off the porch in The Searchers I'll eat my shoes.

    • @franks.389
      @franks.389 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mas Chingon ,one of the greatest scenes in the history of Cinema

    • @castro928
      @castro928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That entire film is beautiful, but that exit...just perfect.

    • @cagegary2668
      @cagegary2668 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      His exit off 'The High and the Mighty' was just as good if not better

    • @jodacious46
      @jodacious46 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Amen!

    • @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW
      @DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mas Chingon 👍 100% AGREED 🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @sedatbalc8754
    @sedatbalc8754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love John Wayne's walk

  • @chrismnj
    @chrismnj ปีที่แล้ว

    Big Jake is in my Top 10. Great movie.

  • @jameskirchner2655
    @jameskirchner2655 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up watching WESTERNS and milatery movies and JOHN Wayne was my hero

  • @benharden578
    @benharden578 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Searchers was my favorite, but the opening scene in Rio Bravo was great too

  • @REDSOX2506
    @REDSOX2506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good job,, enjoyed it,, The Searchers best by far.!!!!

  • @briang.7206
    @briang.7206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The He'll fighters was great as he walks off the cargo plane.

  • @alanwatts5445
    @alanwatts5445 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The opening scene to "The Searchers" is considered (by some) to be the best opening on ANY movie. What makes it interesting is that the closing scene is considered (by some) to be the best closing scene of ANY movie. Thank you John Ford (who had more than one entry on your list).

  • @markcorbett3807
    @markcorbett3807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My God, John Ford; you were a Genius…

  • @epitreture
    @epitreture 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Brannigan had a great entrance: " Knock, knock ! "

  • @mattpastell3728
    @mattpastell3728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All classics! As was he!

  • @citizenken7069
    @citizenken7069 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good choices, no doubt. "Big Jake" is my favorite of the five ("Aw, what'd he have to go and do that for?") I also think the opening scene from "The Shootist" deserves honorable mention ("Mister, you'd better find yourself another line of work. This one sure don't fit your pistol!")

  • @stevewhite8059
    @stevewhite8059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just to add, the second part of my little comment about 'This is John Wayne' was referring to the Duke intro in Stage coach. I don't think that can be beaten as an intro and, as I said, was a great favour from John Ford to The Duke. God Bless their memories.

  • @joeindustry
    @joeindustry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is so much in the Searchers entrance that I didn’t realize for years.

  • @MSkallywagg
    @MSkallywagg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Searchers , greatest western EVER !

    • @apscoradiales
      @apscoradiales 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      An absolutely great movie, no doubt.
      However, personally, I think The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is "better" .
      There are others, such as My Darling Clementine, The Gunfighter, Red River and probably two or three more that are equally superb.