John Wayne
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A veteran journalist presents more than 1,100 quotes from the iconic American man of action’s 172-film career that are at once inspirational, humorous, touching and revealing.
Mark Orwoll's John Wayne Speaks is an amazing compilation of John Wayne's statements and sentiments off and on screen, organized and explained in context by one of the world's leading Wayneologists
6) True grit
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Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
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Description
An ex-Confederate soldier searches for his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family.
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
Description
Three Civil War veterans team up with a train robber's widow to recover the loot from her husband's last job--a cool half-million in gold which is hidden somewhere south of the Mexican border. For backup they've got two nervous young gunslingers and a balky mule packing enough dynamite to blow up the Alamo.
14) The Undefeated
15) Donovan's Reef
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
18) The Green Berets
Series
Pub. Date
[1968]
Description
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
