reap the wild wind
Reap The Wild Wind 1942, Starring John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland and Raymond Massey. Clipper ships taking the shortest route between the Mississippi and the Atlantic often end up on the shoals of Key West in the 1840s. Salvaging the ships' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies -- one headed by the feisty young woman Loxi Claiborne {Paulette Goddard}. Then she falls in love with Captain Jack Stuart {John Wayne} of a wrecked ship while he recuperates at her home. She travels to Charleston and is charming to the man most likely to be head of the captain's company, thinking she will be able to get the captain the position he wants on the company's first steam ship.
red river
Red River 1948, Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru and Walter Brennan. Thomas Dunson {John Wayne} builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth {Montgomery Clift}. Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead. But on the way, new information and Dunson's tyrannical ways cause Matthew to take the herd away from Dunson and head to a new railhead in Kansas. Dunson, swearing vengeance, pursues.
red river range
Red River Range 1938, Starring John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune and Lorna Gray. Very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans. The governor asks the Three Mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate.
reunion in france
Reunion In France 1942, Starring Joan Crawford, John Wayne and Philip Dorn. French woman Michele de la Becque {Joan Crawford}, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot {John Wayne}, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
ride him cowboy
Ride Him Cowboy 1932, Starring John Wayne, Duke, Ruth Hall, Henry B. Walthall and Frank Hagney. John Drury {John Wayne} saves Duke {Duke}, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. John agrees to look for the outlaw known as the Hawk and Henry Simms {Frank Hagney} volunteers to help him. But Simms is the Hawk and he leaves Drury in the desert to die. Simms then kills a man and plants John's harmonica at the scene. With the help of his horse Duke, John returns only to find that he is accused of murder and about to face the hanging Judge.
riders of destiny
Riders Of Destiny 1933, Kincade controls the area's water supply and is about to force the ranchers into contracts at exorbitant rates. Government Agent Saunders has a plan that will open up the lost river and dry up Kincade's supply. So he gets the ranchers to insist on a clause that Kincade's land will revert to the public if he fails to deliver water.
rio bravo
Rio Bravo 1959, The sheriff {John Wayne} of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher {John Russell}, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies - a disgraced drunk {Dean Martin} and a cantankerous old cripple {Walter Brennan} must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger {Ricky Nelson} and a mysterious beauty {Angie Dickinson} who just came in on the last stagecoach.
rio grande
Rio Grande 1950, After the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches. Union officer Kirby Yorke {John Wayne} is in charge of an outpost on the Rio Grande in which he is in charge of training new recruits one of which is his son { Claude Jarman Jr.} whom he hasn't seen in 15 years. He whips him into shape to take on the Apaches but not before his mother {Maureen O'Hara} shows up to take him out of there. The decision to leave is left up to Trooper Yorke who decides to stay and fight. Through it all Kirby and Kathleen though separated for years fall back into love and decide that it's time to give it another try. But Yorke faces his toughest battle when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court- martial. Locked in a bloody Indian war, he must fight to redeem his honor and save the love and lives of his broken family
rio lobo
Rio Lobo 1970, Col. Cord McNally {John Wayne} an ex union officer teams up with a couple of ex Johnny Rebs {Jorge Rivero & Christopher Mitchum} to search for the traitor who sold information to the South during the Civil War. Their quest brings them to the town of Rio Lobo where they help recover this little Texas town from ruthless outlaws who are led by the traitor they were looking for.
rookie of the year
Rookie Of The Year 1955, Reporter Mike Cronin {John Wayne} recognizes a hot young baseball player {Patrick Wayne} as the son of a former famous - and infamous - ballplayer Buck Goodhue {Ward Bond} who was accused of throwing the World Series.
rooster cogburn
Rooster Cogburn 1975, A small village in the Indian Nation that is run by a Minister Goodnight {Jon Lormer} and his daughter Eula {Katharine Hepburn} is overrun by a band of drunken thugs. They kill and rape the people of the village. Miss Goodnight then teams up with the ruthless Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn {John Wayne} who goes after them and bring them to justice.
sagebrush trail
Sagebrush Trail 1933, Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant {John Wayne} escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones' {Lane Chandler}, one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime. Willing to forgive and forget, Brant doesn't realize that 'Jones' has not only fallen for the same pretty shop girl {Nancy Shubert} Brant has, but begins to suspect that Brant is not truly an outlaw.
salute
Salute 1929, Starring George O'Brien, Helen Chandler and William Janney, John Randall is an Army cadet at West Point. His younger brother Paul is a midshipman at the Naval Academy. John contrives to help Paul's timid romantic interest in Nancy Wayne by pretending to be interested in her himself. Paul, however, takes offense, and determines to beat his brother in the Army-Navy football game on purely personal grounds. Meanwhile, Paul and fellow midshipman Albert Price are hazed and tormented by the upperclassmen. John Wayne's character is Midshipman Bill.
sands of iwo jima
Sands Of Iwo Jima 1949, Starring John Wayne, John Agar and Adele Mara, After his wife takes their son and leaves him, Sgt. John M. Stryker {John Wayne} is an embittered man who takes his misery out on the men under his command. They're a bunch of green recruits who have a hard time dealing with Stryker's tough drills and thicker skin. Even his old friends start to wonder if he's gone from being the epitome of the tough Marine drill instructor to a man over the edge.
santa fe stampede
Santa Fe Stampede 1938, The Mesquiteers partner Carson {William Farnum} has found gold on his land. Town boss Byron {LeRoy Mason} wants it and has Carson killed. Then he has his stooge Sheriff arrest Stony {John Wayne} for the murder. While Tucson and Lullaby are away looking for the two witnesses that can free Stony, Byron incites the townsmen to lynch him.
the sea chase
The Sea Chase 1955, Starring John Wayne, Lana Turner and David Farrar, As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich {John Wayne} tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships. The elusive Sea Captain and his blonde woman {Lana Turner} in an explosive, suspense-packed story of high daring on the high seas!
the searchers
The Searchers 1956, Ethan Edwards {John Wayne}, returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother, hopes to find a home with his family and to be near the woman he obviously but secretly loves. But a Comanche raid destroys these plans, and Ethan sets out, along with his 1/8 Indian nephew Martin {Jeffrey Hunter}, on a years-long journey to find the niece Debbie {Natalie Wood} kidnapped by the Indians under Chief Scar {Henry Brandon}. But as the quest goes on, Martin begins to realize that his uncle's hatred for the Indians is beginning to spill over onto his now-assimilated niece. Martin becomes uncertain whether Ethan plans to rescue Debbie...or kill her.
sea spoilers
Sea Spoilers 1936, Starring John Wayne, Nan Grey and William Bakewell, When Coast Guard 'Bos'n' Bob Randall {John Wayne} arrives at his actress girlfriend's yacht he finds the owner killed, contraband seal skins, and no girlfriend.
seven sinners
Seven Sinners 1940, Starring Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Oskar Homolka and Broderick Crawford. Bijou {Marlene Dietrich}, a saloon singer with a reputation for in-sighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes very popular with U.S. navymen by performing at the 'Seven Sinners'. A navy Lieutenant {John Wayne} is attracted to Bijou despite the Governor's machinations to keep them apart, and the competing affections of local mobster, Antro {Oskar Homolka}. Will the Lieutenant give up the navy for Bijou, and will he survive Antro's forces?
shadow of the eagle
Shadow Of The Eagle 1932, Starring John Wayne, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller & Edward Hearn. The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory {Edward Hearn} owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy {John Wayne} is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
