The John Wayne Collection, Vol. II (Big Jake / The Shootist / The Sons of Katie Elder)
John Wayne recovered from his first bout with cancer to appear in this 1965 film as the brother of Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and Michael Anderson Jr. All four characters are wandering souls prone to trouble, but after the funeral of their frontier mother, they set out to avenge her death. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Wayne's director on True Grit), the film moves like a conventional, latter-day Western, with good performances from Wayne and Martin, who'd already costarred with the Duke in Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo. Nice support from Dennis Hopper (who had a legendary conflict with Hathaway on this film), Strother Martin, and George Kennedy. --Tom Keogh
Big Jake
Big Jake (1969) is not one of the Duke's classics, but a diverting attempt nonetheless. Everyone seems to think that Jacob McCandles is six feet under ("I thought you was dead" is a running line throughout), so some bad men kidnap his grandson. They want a piece of the family fortune and will kill to get it. Patrick Wayne, the Duke's own son, plays one of Big Jake's kids, and together they start out after the boy's abductors. Richard Boone makes a worthy adversary to Jake's larger-than-life figure, and the final confrontation between the two contains some great gritted-teeth dialogue. Maureen O'Hara is barely in the feature, sharing the same fate as Bobby Vinton as the boy's father. He seems to be onscreen just to get shot. --Keith Simanton
The Shootist
The last film of John Wayne could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career gunfighter in the autumn of his life, trying to hang up his pistols after he discovers he's dying of cancer. Boarding in the house of an attractive widow (Lauren Bacall) and her son (Ron Howard), Wayne's character opts for peace in his final days but is dogged by his reputation when a handful of killers seeks him out for a final fight. Howard is fine as a fatherless boy who needs the strong mentor the hero represents, and James Stewart--who costarred with Wayne in the great Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--plays the doctor who gives the big man the bad news. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) thoughtfully directs a very special and sensitive production. --Tom Keogh
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
DVD-John Wayne Collection
My Dad loves John Wayne. He knows everything about him; including that his actual name was Miriam. The Sons of Katie Elder is good. It's about her 3 sons who are argueing after her death. The Shootist is John Wayne's last movie coincidently...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Better Collection Than The First Three..............
The Shootist at least had the extra features and interviews the other DVD's are lacking. Such a shame, so much more could be added to the other DVD's in this collection as well as the 1st volume. You will have to love them on the movies alone........
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 19, 2006 Type: User Review |
Three great movies.
The three DVDs have no extras besides the one feature on The Shootist so I will focus on the movies:
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 09, 2005 Type: User Review |
FOUR VERY GOOD FILMS
This second volume in the John Wayne collection features three more later Duke Westerns. While none may be classics, they are all very good and still show the presence that Wayne had towards the end of his career.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 01, 2005 Type: User Review |
Worthy
First of all, in "The Sons of Katie Elder", it is obviously still a wild wild west and so "Katie Elder" of this movie cannot be the relatively well-known frontier figure, "Big Nose Kate" Elder, Doc Holliday's girlfriend. (If you don't know who...
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4.00/5 |
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