1997 - John Wayne VHS Tapes Set

This is a box set of five VHS tapes of early John Wayne "western" movies.
Product# 05-03420 - Box Set still sealed in original plastic film
©1997 Goodtimes Home Video, New York, NY - Movies included are; "Helltown" (1937), "Riders of Destiny" (1933), "Sagebrush Trail" (1933), "The Dawn Rider" (1935), and "The Man From Utah" (1934)
** Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; 1907-1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height. His first leading role came in the widescreen epic "The Big Trail" (1930), which led to leading roles in numerous films throughout the 1930's, many of them in the western genre. His career rose to further heights in 1939, with John Ford's "Stagecoach" making him an instant superstar. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures. Among his better-known later films are "The Quiet Man" (1952), in which he is an Irish-American in love with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; "The Searchers" (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran whose young niece (Natalie Wood) is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in an Indian raid; "Rio Bravo" (1959), playing a sheriff with Dean Martin; "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), portraying a rancher competing with Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in marriage; "True Grit" (1969), as a humorous U.S. Marshal (with Glenn Campbell) who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne his Academy Award; and "The Shootist" (1976), his final screen performance, in which he plays an aging gunfighter battling cancer. He died of stomach cancer in 1979. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne 13th among the Greatest Male Screen Legends of All Time.