John Wayne
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
World War II rages across the Pacific and Lt. Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford (John Wayne) is in the thick of it. He evacuates children from enemy-held islands ; oversees the research and development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor ; and prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish, hoping for a chance to aim his improved "tin fish"--Torpedoes - at the hulls of the enemy fleet.
82) Hondo
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order...
84) Rainbow Valley
Formats
Description
Wayne is an undercover agent pretending to be an escaped convict to get the goods on a gang who is after a valuable tract of land.
87) Rio Lobo
Series
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbers when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Blue steel: John Wyne reveals a secret gold supply to a town in danger of extinction, much to the displeasure of an outlaw gang already aware of the secret. The man from Utah: John Wayne deals with a corrupt patron of a rodeo, who has killed some of the rodeo performers. The star packer: John Wayne plays a marshal who must straighten out a gang of criminals while still finding time for romance.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Dawn rider: "John Wayne hits the vengeance trail after the bandits who shot his father in this 1935 film from Robert N. Bradbury, who directed most of the Duke's many early Lone Star Westerns"--Container.
Hurricane express: "John Wayne stars as pilot Larry Baker, who makes an unscheduled landing in a vain attempt to prevent a railway collision that kills his father, and is fired for disobeying orders"--Container.
John Wayne: American hero of the...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
The man from Utah: his own men are the only ones who ever win the prize money in Barton's rodeo, and whenever a local rider has a chance to win, he meets with an "accident." John Wayne, as the "Man from Utah" is determined to find out why, even if he has to break every bronco in the West.
Randy rides alone: Thrown into jail after being accused of a murder he didn't commit, Randy escapes and joins the gang that actually committed the crime. By gathering...
94) 3 Godfathers
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Fugitive bank robbers care for the newborn of the woman they just buried, knowing it ruins any chance of escape. Director John Ford's western retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and thematic masterpiece.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
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.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A Navy lieutenant falls in love with a saloon singer; follows the rise and fall of an executive in the Pittsburgh steel industry; a marine salvager is prosecuted after allegedly sinking a steamship, causing the death of a young woman; Mongolian warlord Temujin is crowned Genghis Khan; a young man in the Missouri hills vows revenge on his father; in 1890s Alaska, a miner and his partners fight to save their claim from a crooked town official; a fighter...
98) 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.
99) The longest day
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Complete story of the D-Day landings at Normandy through the eyes of all its participants.
100) Big Jim McLain
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers who are a worldwide terror ring headquartered in Hawaii.