{"id":5811,"date":"2020-02-08T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2020-02-20T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:34:31","slug":"john-wayne-john-ford-movies-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-john-ford-movies-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne & John Ford Movies Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Wayne and director John Ford forged a screen partnership that produced a body of work almost unparalleled in Hollywood history. If either of them had never made any other films they would both still be lauded for having produced some of the most famous and popular movies ever made, the majority of them firmly ensconced within the Western genre.<\/p>\n

Strictly speaking, Wayne appeared in a number of late silent films directed by John Ford, including \u201cHangman\u2019s House\u201d, \u201cFour Sons\u201d and \u201cMother Machree\u201d, but he is only credited as being an extra. Wayne also had a speaking part in a small role as a navy cadet in Ford\u2019s 1920 early talkie \u201cSalute\u201d, but he goes uncredited in the cast list.<\/p>\n

\"Stagecoach<\/p>\n

For Wayne, it all began, of course, with \u201cStagecoach\u201d in 1939, the actor having spent the intervening years after the box-office failure of \u201cThe Big Trail\u201d in 1930 churning out a series of low-budget cowboy and adventure serials and five-reelers for studios such as Columbia, Warner Brothers, Lone Star and Republic.<\/p>\n

Ford, however, had been on a roll ever since the success of the silent Western epic \u201cThe Iron Horse\u201d in 1924, the box-office winner making the director almost a household name from then on.<\/p>\n

By the time Ford and Wayne teamed up on \u201cStagecoach\u201d, the director already had one Best Director Academy Award under his belt with \u201cThe Informer\u201d, released in 1935, and would go on to win another record-breaking three Best Director Oscars with \u201cThe Grapes of Wrath\u201d, \u201cHow Green Was My Valley\u201d and \u201cThe Quiet Man\u201d.<\/p>\n

In all they collaborated on thirteen full-length feature films from 1939 to 1963, Wayne also making a short cameo appearance in the Civil War sequence for \u201cHow the West Was Won\u201d, the only part of the film directed by Ford.<\/p>\n

Rather than review the films chronologically, we thought we\u2019d list them by order of preference as we have done for previous other articles featuring John Wayne films by director.<\/p>\n

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