Just seen this film, and am keen to seek out similar titles. I am fairly unfamiliar with this genre, so would be very grateful if anyone out there could recommend other Western movies featuring John Wayne from the 30s.
Many thanks in advance.
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> Just seen this film, and am keen to seek out similar titles. I am fairly unfamiliar with this genre, so would be very grateful if anyone out there could recommend other Western movies featuring John Wayne from the 30s. <
With two exceptions, Stagecoach on the much earlier The Big Trail, Wayne spent the thirties doing quickie "B" westerns for several of the "Poverty Row" studios such as Republic. Stagecoach was his real entry into higher-budget "A" films.
To see him doing quality work in quality films, you'll have to go forward into the forties. Probably his best early work is Angel and the Badman (which was done much later in the '40s, but thematically fits in more with Wayne's war years than the Ford/Hawkes films that he was doing during the last third of the decade) but Dark Command (featuring a surprisingly good turn by Roy Rogers!), and Tall In the Saddle are also worthy westerns from this period. You might also take a look at The Shepherd of the Hills -- not a western per se, but Wayne and Harry Carey doing some fine work in a rural, Ozark Mountain setting.
The above-mentioned "mature" work that Wayne did in the late '40s (the Cavalry Trilogy, Red River) really showcase how he had grown as a craftsman and was rapidly approaching Artist stature.
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Already mentioned: Angel and The Badman. One of my favorite Wayne westerns, filled with action, good characters and great lines.
It's also a fine film with the theme of redemption - which I believe is the fundamental theme of every great story.
"Only a man who carries a gun ever needs one."
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If you go to your video store and find the aisle marked "Westerns" every other movie there is roughly identical to this.
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