John Wayne - John Ford Collection [Box Set]

Stage Coach
One of the all-time classic Westerns - considered by many to be the movie that propelled John Wayne to stardom in 1939. The Film is set against the impressive backdrop of Monument Valley in Utah and tells the story of a mixed group of travellers who are making their way across the country to Arizona. They are endangered by an Indian War Party and this, along with their personal histories, results in difficulties. The Film pays particular attention to the character studies of the group and is a taut psychological piece which earned an Oscar for Thomas Mitchell's performance as the drunken doctor. The music also won an Oscar and John Ford and Bert Flennon were nominated for best picture. A True classic American western.

Fort Apache
The first of John Ford's trilogy of Cavalry Movies set during America's struggle against the Apache Indian. Henry Fonda plays the stubborn Colonel Thursday whose textbook methods of warfare appear as pure as suicide to everyone but him,. John Wayne star as Captain York, a soldier experienced in Apache warfare, from which Thursday will take no advice. The film builds to the inevitable confrontation with the Apache masses, and Thursday leads his men into the Lion's Den.

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
In this 1949 classic from director John Ford, Captain Nathan Brittles - cavalry veteran and hero - is about to lead his last patrol. The distinguished officer, on the brink of retirement , looks back over a life of war, sacrifice and danger, but he is determined to have one last crack at the enemy. With Western stars such as Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr. and Victor McClaglen at his side, this is one movie where all the John Ford ingredients are "served, piping hot"!

Rio Grande
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is the hard-riding hero of the US cavalry. He and his men patrol the badlands of the Mexican Border. One of his men happens to be his own son (Claude Jarman, Jr.), and when the Colonel's estranged wife (Maureen O' Hara) suddenly arrives at the fort, Yorke finds himself having to deal with another formidable adversary! Yet the threat of Indian attack is never far away, and soon father and son must face the danger of the Rio Grande...

The Quiet man
Galway in the 1920s. After a long and profitable career as a boxer, Irish-born American Sean Thornton (John Wayne) returns to his home village to settle down and forget an accident in which he killed an opponent in the ring. Sean buys back the Thornton cottage, incurring the wrath of neighbouring squire Red Will Danaher (Victor McLagen) whose sister Mary Kate (Maureen O' Hara) he's fallen in love with. With the drunk Michaeleen Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald) as marriage broker, and Red Will Reluctant to allow the Courtship to go ahead, Sean Thornton has to battle against all manner of Irish blarney to get the hand of the girl he loves. One of the most popular romances ever made, and featuring one of the classic fights in cinema history.