Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 101 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
One of John Wayne's most mystical films, Angel and the Badman is also the first production that Wayne personally produced. The star plays a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family. Attracted to the family's angelic daughter Gail Russell, the hard-bitten Wayne undergoes a slow and subtle character transformation; still, he is obsessed with killing the man (Bruce Cabot) who murdered his foster father. The storyline traces not only the regeneration of Wayne, but of the single-minded sheriff (Harry Carey) who'd previously been determined to bring Wayne to justice.
Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
In this "Lone Star" western, John Carruthers (John Wayne) is hot on the trail of the bad guy who kidnapped heroine Betty Mason (Eleanor Hunt). Unfortunately, Carruthers is himself pursued by the sheriff, who believes that Our Hero is an outlaw. The admittedly thinnish plot of Blue Steel is never permitted to impede the film's non-stop action. George"Gabby" Hayes and Yakima Canutt, both of whom would continue to be associated with Wayne well into the 1940s, are prominent among the supporting players.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore, Yakima Canutt, Joseph De Grasse, Earl Dwire.
Cowboy is nursed back to health by his sweetheart after being wounded in a shootout, not realizing that her brother is the leader of the gang that murdered his father. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
John Wayne's easy-going charm truly began to manifest itself in this, one of his later "Lone Star" Westerns for Monogram. Falsely accused of killing the paymaster (Henry Hall) of the Rattlesnake Gulch rodeo, John Scott (Wayne)and his girl-chasing partner Kansas Charlie (Eddy Chandler) trail the real killer, Pete (Al Ferguson), and his unwilling underling Jim (Paul Fix) to Poker City. Jim wants to go straight, but Pete blackmails him into robbing the stagecoach. Besides one of Wayne's better early performances, The Desert Trail also benefitted from the presence of Frank Capra-regular Eddy Chandler, a rotund comic actor whose sparring here with Wayne is first-rate all the way. Paul Fix is equally good as the outlaw with a conscience and Mary Kornman, of Our Gang fame, is tolerable as the obligatory heroine.
Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George 'Gabby' Hayes
When miners Mason and Benson 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. Written by Maurice VanAuken
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Reed Howes, Earle Hodgins
Sent to find counterfeiters, John Wyatt joins Doc Carter's medicine show. They arrive in the town where Curly Joe runs his counterfeiting operation. Carter was once framed by Curly Joe and Curly Joe tries to get rid of him. But John foils his attempts and learning Curly Joe is the counterfeiter, goes after him.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, Monte Blue, Lucien Littlefield, Syd Saylor.
Irresponsible saddle tramp goes to work for his trail boss cousin, but ends up losing his cousin's cattle money to crooked card players. Based on the novel "Born to the West" by Zane Grey. Dir. Charles Barton
Running Time: 57 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
Based on a Zane Grey novel, this early John Wayne western stars the Dukeas a carefree cowpoke who, to the dismay of his family, joins up with rustlers. Also titled Born to the West.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Jack Rockwell, George Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Jay Wilsey, Earl Dwire.
When Wayne goes after an outlaw gang who killed his parents, he is framed by a misguided sheriff who thinks he's part of the gang. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 59 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Sheila Mannors, Jack Curtis
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Starring: John Wayne
John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines.
Running Time: 61 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, Lloyd Whitlock, George Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire.
Wayne plays a college graduate who goes West to find his fortune in gold, but gets tricked out of his land by swindlers who murder his partner and pin the blame on Wayne. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
In an early role, John Wayne appears as a cowboy who enters the rodeo to deal with cheats who sponsor the events but have caused the deaths of several contestants. With the help of a local sheriff (George Cleveland), the outlaws are caught and peace rules once again.
Running Time: 122 mins Color
Starring: John Wayne
One of the classic battle-of-the-sexes. In vintage portrayals by John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, the battle is on with slapstick humor and no holds barred. The story of two best friends who love hating each other makes for great entertainment as monumental egos and hurt pride battle with love that's as passionate as the "hate" between them. Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Shirley Jean Rickert, Yakima Canutt, Buffalo Bill Jr, George Gabby Hayes.
The Duke adopts a young Indian girl who has been kidnapped for the deed to her inheritance, a $50,000 oil field. Dir. Harry Fraser
Running Time: 69 mins Color
Starring: John Wayne,Paul Kelley
Who wouldn't love a flick in which Lassie, compelled by burning hatred, tracks down the man who killed his beloved owner? It's not quite as bleak as all that, (if it had taken place in a city, it would have been the sole entry in the "Lassie-noir" genre) but it IS a startlingly dark work, for a 50's family-movie audience.
Running Time: 59 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Yakima Canutt, Reed Howes, Earl Hodgins.
G-Man John joins a medicine show to track down a counterfeiting operation, but realizes too late he's on the wrong trail. Dir. Carl Pierson
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Lucile Browne, George 'Gabby' Hayes
John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover.
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Artie Ortego.
In the opening sequence, The Duke walks into a saloon to find everyone inside has been killed. This sets the tone for an offbeat western as Wayne goes after the baddies, who are holed up in a cave hidden behind a waterfall. Watch for "Gabby" in a different role as a mute, hunchbacked store clerk. Dir. Harry L. Fraser
Running Time: 56 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George Gabby Hayes, Al St. John, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Lafe McKee.
John Wayne Sings! Singin' Sandy Saunders tries to thwart another wealthy land owner from monopolizing local water rights. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
The second of the Duke's films for Lone Star Productions, this one casts him as an accused killer in search of the real culprit. On the lam from the law, Wayne teams up with gunslinger Lane Chandler, never suspecting that Chandler is the man he is looking for. The relationship between Wayne and Chandler, at first friendly and then adversarial, is handled with more depth than was normal in a quickie western.
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly, Douglas Cosgrove
The Pony Express days are coming to an end, with riders John Blair (John Wayne) and his friend Larry Adams (Lane Chandler), both about 75 pounds too heavy for the original job description, out of a job. They pay Cal Drake (Douglas Cosgrove) of Buchanan City a big price for the Crescent City line and equipment, and arrive there to find it is a ghost mining town and has only two residents: eccentric, self-proclaimed Mayor "Rocky" O'Brien (Lew Kelly) and Dr. William Forsythe (Sam Flint). With the arrival from back east of Barbara Forsythe (Phyllis Fraser), the doctor's daughter and Ginger Rogers lookalike, O'Brien happily changes the blackboard population sign from two to five. John determines to get even and operate the line anyway, after vacating a resident skunk from the stagecoach. On his first run into Buchanan City John learns of a coach race to be staged (fastest team to win a $25,000 government mail contract) and he signs up. A telegraph crew, drinking unknowingly of a poisoned ...
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire.
U.S. Marshal must solve several murders when he rides into a town victimized by outlaws headed by a mysterious figure. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Edward Peil Sr
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Lucille Brown, LeRoy Mason, George Gabby Hayes, Fern Emmett, Buffalo Bill Jr.
Wayne resigns his badge and withdraws from civilization when he thinks he has shot and killed his friend. Coincidentally, he comes upon the dead man's daughter and helps her run her ranch, until she learns his identity. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 57 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr, Verna Hillie, Robert Frazer, Earl Dwire.
College chums Wayne and Beery Jr go on a trip to the Northwest to find girls and gold, and wind up with a map to hidden treasure. From the novel "The Wolf Hunters" by James Oliver Curwood. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
Stars John Wayne as a man in search of a gold mine and a girl who also is forced to confront an outlaw andshow him who's boss.
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Starring: John Wayne
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne, Virginia Brown Faire, George Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Lafe McKee, Lloyd Whitlock.
Wayne masquerades as an outlaw to bring his father's murderer to justice. He ends up taming a shrewish rancher's daughter and finding his long-lost brother along the way. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: John Wayne
One of John Wayne's first Republic westerns, this film casts the Duke as a novice stagecoach line owner. John Blair (Wayne) and his partner Larry Adams (Lane Chandler) are given the opportunity to win a $25,000 mailcontract. But a rival coach line does everything it can, legal or otherwise, to knock Blair's operation out of the running. Yakima Canutt, longtime Waynecrony and perhaps the best stunt coordinator in the business, is third-billed as Smoky. Featured in a microscopic role is handsome young Charles Locher, later to skyrocket to stardom as Jon Hall.