{"id":5426,"date":"2019-04-05T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:01:46","slug":"john-wayne-non-western-movies-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-non-western-movies-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Non-Western Movies & What They Made At The Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

As with our previous article on John Wayne\u2019s top 20 box-office Western movies<\/a> we\u2019ve decided to consider only the domestic take. This time around though, we didn\u2019t restrict the titles to those films that earned $4 million or above. We just went for the first twenty in an original list of thirty films. We also had to make a couple of assumptions on original budget just as before, this time around for \u201cFlying Leathernecks\u201d and \u201cHellfighters\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

An executive decision was taken to exclude both \u201cJet Pilot\u201d and \u201cThe Greatest Story Ever Told\u201d from this exercise. \u201cJet Pilot\u201d apparently cost $9 million dollars to make and there was no way the box office take for that film would put it into the top twenty list. The latter was not included because a) JW is literally onscreen for only a few minutes and b) it was bloody awful<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Again, we have two lists, one indicating the original box office domestic market takings and a comparison with the inflated box office figure. The second list shows the original budget and estimated profit (or loss) based upon budget and box office earnings.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

Top 20 JW Non-Westerns by Original Box Office Takings<\/h2>\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"JW\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

Top 20 JW Non-Westerns by Profitability<\/h2>\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"JW\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t

Now that we\u2019ve gone to the trouble of compiling a list of top box-office movies for both JWs Westerns and non-Western films it makes obvious sense to combine both lists and come up with the ultimate John Wayne box-office top twenty titles from his long and varied career.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

We\u2019ve decided to just show the original box office take for the following titles alongside the profit after taking the budget of each film into account.<\/p>\r\n

Other info can be gained regarding inflated box office figures and the budget in this and our previous article on JWs box-office record.<\/p>\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"How\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

Top 20 JW Box Office Movies <\/h2>\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"JW\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t

So there it is. 1962 proved to be a watershed moment for JW what with the top two titles being released in the same year.<\/p>\r\n

Of course, if you\u2019re looking for the best box office performance in movies featuring Wayne as the leading man then the top honour goes to \u201cTrue Grit<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

In the meantime, for now we\u2019ll just say vaya con dios, au revoir and adios amigos until we meet again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with our previous article on John Wayne\u2019s top 20 box-office Western movies we\u2019ve decided to consider only the domestic take. This time around though, we didn\u2019t restrict the titles to those films that earned $4 million or above. We … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6106,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions\/6106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}