Movie Poster Collecting: John Wayne

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Friday, July 10, 2020

Comancheros 1961 John Wayne Window Card

The Commancheros (1961) - (John Wayne) US Window Card

This is a 14" x 22" US window card for the 1961 Michael Curtiz film The Comancheros based on the 1952 Paul Wellman novel of the same title, screenplay by James Edward Grant and Clair Huffaker and starring John Wayne as Captain Jake Cutter. Plot summary: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests Paul Regret, a gambler, but soon joins forces with his prisoner in a fight against a gang of arms merchants and thieves.

Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne, James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker, Paul Wellman (1952 novel), Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Joan O'Brien, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell, Richard Devon

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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Hatari! 1962 John Wayne Italian locandina

Hatari (1962) - (John Wayne) Italian locandina

This is a 12.5"x 27.5" Italian locandina for the 1962 Howard Hawks film Hatari based on a story by Harry Kurnitz, screenplay by Leigh Brackett and starring John Wayne as Sean Mercer. Plot summary: Sean Mercer has a business in Africa capturing wild animals for sale to zoos. There is a disruption in the routine when photographer Anna Maria D'Allesandra [Elsa Martinelli] joins the group to document its activities.

Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, John Wayne, Leigh Brackett, Harry Kurnitz, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain, Bruce Cabot, Michèle Girardon, Valentin de Vargas, Eduard Franz, Queenie Leonard

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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Trouble along the Way 1953 John Wayne US one-sheet

Trouble along the Way (1953) - (John Wayne) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" original US one-sheet poster for the 1953 Fred Zinneman film Trouble along the Way based on a story by Douglas Morrow and Robert Hardy Andrews, screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose and starring John Wayne as Aloysius Williams. Plot summary: Steve William is a football coach at a Catholic college who gets involved in a recruiting scandal.

Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, Douglas Morrow, Robert Hardy Andrews, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson, Marie Windsor, Tom Helmore, Dabbs Greer, Leif Erickson, Douglas Spencer, Lester Matthews, Chuck Connors

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Monday, January 22, 2018

El Dorado 1967 John Wayne Italian locandina

El Dorado (1967) - (John Wayne) Italian locandina

This is a 14" x 27" Italian locandina poster for the 1967 Hawks film El Dorado based on the 1960 Harry Brown novel The Stars in their Courses, screenplay by Leigh Brackett and starring John Wayne as Cole Thornton. Plot summary: Cole Thornton is a hired gun who refuses work because he does not want to fight J.P. Harrah, [Robert Mitchum] his old friend and also the El Dorado sheriff.

Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, Leigh Brackett, Harry Brown (novel The Stars in Their Courses 1960, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicut, Michele Carey, R. G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George, Marina Ghane, Robert Donner, John Gabriel, Johnny Crawford, Robert Rothwell

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Monday, October 9, 2017

El Dorado 1967 John Wayne Yugoslavian poster

El Dorado (1967) - (John Wayne) Yugoslavian poster

This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1966 Howard Hawks film El Dorado based on the 1960 Harry Brown novel The Stars in their Courses, screenplay by Leigh Brackett and starring John Wayne as Cole Thornton. Plot summary: Cole Thornton is a hired gun who turns down a job fighting an old sheriff friend, J.P. Harrah [Robert Mitchum] of El Dorado. Thornton later goes to help Harrah when he hears he is in trouble.

Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, Leigh Brackett, Harry Brown (1960 novel The Stars in their Courses), John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George, Marina Ghane, Robert Donner, John Gabriel, Johnny Crawford, Robert Rothwell

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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Big Jake 1971 John Wayne Yugoslavian poster

Big Jake (1971) - (John Wayne) Yugoslavian poster

This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1971 George Sherman film Big Jake written by Harry Julian Fink and Rita M. Fink and starring John Wayne as Jacob McCandles. Plot summary: In 1909 John Fain [Richard Boone] and his gang raid the McCandles ranch, kill all the ranch hands and then kidnap the McCandles grandson Jake. Martha McCandles, [Maureen O'Hara] who is running the ranch alone, sends for Big Jake, her estranged husband. Big Jake is an aging gunfighter and the only person Martha considers up the task of confronting the gang.

Cast and crew: George Sherman, Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett, Harry Carey Jr., John Doucette, Jim Davis, John Agar, Gregg Palmer, Jim Burk, Robert Warner

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Friday, September 22, 2017

The Undefeated 1969 John Wayne Italian locandina

The Undefeated (1969) - (John Wayne) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1969 Andrew V. McLaglen film The Undefeated based on a story by Stanley Hough, screenplay by James Lee Barrett and starring John Wayne as Colonel John Henry Thomas. Plot summary: After the American Civil War Colonel John Henry Thomas and Colonel James Langdon [Rock Hudson] are leading two completely different groups into Mexico. Although they have little in common, the two groups are forced to make common cause to help each other fight off bandits and revolutionaries.

Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, James Lee Barrett, Stanley Hough, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Merlin Olsen, Melissa Newman, Bruce Cabot, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Edward Faulkner, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Royal Dano

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Saturday, September 16, 2017

The Shootist 1976 John Wayne Italian locandina

The Shootist (1976) - (John Wayne) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 28" Italian locandina poster for the 1976 Don Siegel film The Shootist based on the 1975 novel of the same title by Glendon Swarthout, screenplay by Miles Hood Swarthout and Scott Hale and starring John Wayne as John B. Books. Plot summary: John Books has gotten a second medical opinion that he has terminal cancer with only a month or two left to live. Books takes a room in a boarding house and tries to think of a quicker way out.

Cast and crew: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Richard Boone, John Carradine, Scatman Crothers, Don Siegel, Glendon Swarthout (1975 novel), Miles Hood Swarthout, Scott Hale, Ron Howard, Hugh O'Brian, Bill McKinney, Harry Morgan, Sheree North, Rick Lenz, Gregg Palmer, Alfred Dennis, Dick Winslow

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Rio Bravo R1978 John Wayne Italian locandina

Rio Bravo (R1978) - (John Wayne) Italian locandina

This is a 14" x 28" Italian locandina poster designed by Mario Piovano of Studio Paradiso for a 1978 rerelease of the 1959 Howard Hawks film Rio Bravo based on a short story by B.H. McCampbell AKA Barbara Hawks, screenplay by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett and starring John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance. Plot summary: In the town of Rio Bravo Texas Sheriff John T. Chance has arrested Joe Burdette [Claude Akins] for murder, but he knows it will be difficult to keep him in jail because his brother Nathan [John Russell] is expected to lead an armed assault on the jail to get him out. The sheriff needs help.

Cast and crew: B.H. McCambell, Barbara Hawks, Howard Hawks, Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins, Malcolm Atterbury, Carry Carey Jr.

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Monday, March 28, 2016

The Undefeated (1969) - (John Wayne) Spanish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Spanish one-sheet poster designed by Max for the 1969 Andrew V. McLaglen film The Undefeated based on a story by Stanley Hough, screenplay by James Lee Barrett and starring John Wayne as Colonel John Henry Thomas. Plot summary: In the final days of the American Civil War, Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and his men drive a herd of 3,000 horses into Mexico to be sold in Durango. Colonel James Langdon [Rock Hudson] and his regiment of Confederate soldiers feel the war has deprived them of their homes and decide to join the French invasion of Mexico led by Emperor Maximilian. When they arrive in Mexico General Rojas [Antonio Aguilar] intercepts and holds them hostage to be exchanged for the herd of horses Colonel Thomas is bringing. When he arrives, the colonel has other ideas.

Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, James Lee Barrett, Stanley Hough, Antonio Aguilar, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Merlin Olsen, Melissa Newman, Bruce Cabot, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Edward Faulkner, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Royal Dano

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Rio Lobo (1970) - (John Wayne) Turkish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Turkish one-sheet poster for the 1970 Howark Hawks film Rio Lobo starring John Wayne as Colonel Cord McNally, based on a story by Burton Wohl with screenplay by Burton Wohl and Leigh Brackett. Plot summary: After the US Civil War, former Union Colonel Cord McNally takes it upon himself with the help of some former Confederate soldiers to find a traitor who sold information to the South during the war. When they reach the town of Rio Lobo they find it has been taken over by a band of outlaws under leadership of the traitor they are looking for.

Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett, John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neal, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French, Susana Dosamantes, Sherry Lansing, David Huddleston, Mike Henry, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dean Smith, Robert Donner, George Plimpton

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Red River (R1965) - (John Wayne) Spanish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Spanish poster by an unknown designer for a 1965 rerelease of the 1948 Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson film Red River based on the 1946 Borden Chase Saturday Evening Post serial "Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail," screenplay by Borden Chase and Charles Schnee and starring John Wayne as Thomas Dunson. Plot summary: Thomas Dunson is a cattle rancher who starts a ranch in Texas and leads a cattle drive to Abilene which is the first use of what eventually becomes known as the Chisholm Trail. The story is punctuated by trouble with indians, territorial disputes, gunfights and conflicts over women.

Cast and crew: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., Borden Chase, Charles Schnee, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Chief Yowlachie, Paul Fix, Hank Worden, Mickey Kuhn, Ray Hyke, Hal Taliaferro, Dan White, Shelley Winters, Slim Pickens, Robert M. Lopez, Wally Wales

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Hellfighters (1969) - (John Wayne) Spanish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US-made Spanish poster for the 1969 Andrew V. McLaglen film Hellfighters based on a screenplay by Clair Huffaker and starring John Wayne as Chance Buckman. Plot summary: This film tells the story of a group of oil well firefighters based on the life of Red Adair, who also served as an adviser in the making of the film. Chance Buckman travels around the world putting out oil well fires but he misses his ex-wife Madelyn [Vera Miles] and his daughter Leticia [Katharine Ross], who left him 20 years ago because Madelyn was upset about him risking his life fighting fires. When Chance is nearly killed in an accident with a bulldozer, his daughter visits and this leads to her marriage to his assistant Greg Parker [Tim Hutton]. Madelyn also visits, and with her back in his life Buckman takes a safer job at another oil company hoping to win her back.

Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Red Adair, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner, Barbara Stuart, Edmund Hashim, Valentin de Vargas, Frances Fong, Alberto Morin, Alan Caillou, Laraine Stephens, John Alderson

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Lady for a Night (1942) - (John Wayne) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1942 Leigh Jason film Lady for a Night based on a screenplay by Isabel Dawn and Boyce DeGaw and starring John Wayne as Jackson Morgan. The casino steamboat Memphis Belle in this film became the namesake for a famous World War II B-17 bomber. Plot summary: Jenny Blake [Joan Blondell] and Jack Morgan jointly own the Memphis Belle, a casino steamboat, which caters to an upper-class clientele. To improve her social position Jenny marries plantation owner Alan Alderson [Ray Middleton], to the dismay of Jack who secretly loves Jenny. Alan's family does not accept Jenny, and Jack and Alan's aunt Julia [Blanche Yurka] conspire to sabotage the new marriage.

Cast and crew: Leigh Jason, Isabel Dawn, Boyce DeGaw, Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka, Ray Middleton, Edith Barrett, Leonit Kinskey, Hattie Noel, Montagu Love, Carmel Myers, Dorothy Burgess, Guy Usher, Ivan Miller, Patricia Knox, Lew Payton

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Big Jake (1971) - (John Wayne) Turkish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Turkish one-sheet for the 1971 George Sherman film Big Jake based on a story by Harry Julian and Rita M. Fink and starring John Wayne as Jacob McCandles. Plot summary: In the year 1909 after the outlaw John Fain [Richard Boone] and his gang overrun the McCandles ranch and kidnap Jacob McCandles [Ethan Wayne] for ransom, Martha McCandles [Maureen O'Hara], the head of the family, sends for her estranged husband the old gunfighter Big Jake McCandles, who sets out to correct the situation.

Cast and crew: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett, John Doucette, George Sherman, Elmer Bernstein, Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Maureen O'Hara, Jim Davis, John Agar, Harry Carey Jr., Gregg Palmer, Roy Jenson, Virginia Capers

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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Brannigan (1975) - (John Wayne) US 40x60

Brannigan (1975) - (John Wayne) US 40x60 film poster

This is a US 40x60 poster designed by Tom Jung and Robert E. McGinnis to promote the 1975 Douglas Hickox film Brannigan based on a screenplay by Christopher Trumbo and Michael Butler and starring John Wayne as Jim Brannigan. Plot summary: Chicago detective Jim Brannigan [John Wayne] is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who has been arrested there, but when he arrives he finds the mobster has been kidnapped.

Cast and crew: Douglas Hickox, Tom Jung, Robert E. McGinnis, Christopher Trumbo, Michael Butler, John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon, Daniel Pilon, John Stride, James Booth, Arthur Batanides, Ralph Meeker, Barry Dennen, Lesley-Anne Down, Pauline Delaney, Del Henney, Brian Glover