John Wayne Classics (DVD)

This compilation features 10 early John Wayne movies, all but one from the 1930s (when Wayne was in his twenties), individually described below:HELL TOWN (1937) - A frontier rivalry ensues when young Dare Rudd (John Wayne) becomes attracted to his cousin`s girl. Dare loses the money for the family`s cattle drive in a crooked card game and his jealous cousin hatches a plot to kill him. Featuring Johnny Mack Brown.BLUE STEEL (1934) - A lawman (John Wayne at age 27) learns that a supposed pillar of the community schemes to choke off the other ranchers by sealing out all incoming supplies in order to force them to sell their land. Featuring George

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Hayes and Yakima Canutt.THE DAWN RIDER (1935) - Alice (Marion Burns) nurses John Mason (John Wayne) after he`s been shot in a robbery in which his father was murdered, but John doesn`t realize that it was Alice`s own brother who pulled the trigger. Featuring Yakima Canutt.LAWLESS FRONTIER (1934) - Outlaw Pandro Zanti murdered the parents of John Tobin (John Wayne), and Tobin catches him just as he`s about to kill another man and kidnap a beautiful woman. Zanti slips out of the handcuffs and escapes into the desert, with a desperate Tobin in feverish pursuit. Featuring George

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Hayes and Yakima Canutt.THE ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947) - An offbeat western with John Wayne as a gunfighter who must choose between the girl he loves and his guns. Outlaw Quirt Evans (Wayne), wounded during a bank robbery, finds himself taken in by a gentle Quaker family and nursed back to health by their lovely daughter Penelope Worth (Gail Russell). Quirt begins to rethink his violent lifestyle after falling in love with Penelope and being hounded by his vicious rival Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot) and a laconic U.S. marshal named Wistful McClintlock (Harry Carey). Quite similar in some ways the 1985 Harrison Ford thriller WITNESS, this sensitive romantic film marks a departure for Wayne.THE

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