RIO LOBO: A classic action-filled John Wayne western is set into motion with a spectacular robbery of a union pay train by Confederate guerrillas. The train's colonel (Wayne) jails the enemy leaders (Jorge Rivers, Chris Mitchum) but the three men later become friends when the war ends. Together they seek the union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies, a mission that culminates in a rousing shoot-'em-up finale. Rio Lobo was the fifth collaboration over a 22-year period between John Wayne and the legendary director Howard Hawks.
TRUE GRIT: John Wayne earned the 1969 Best Actor Oscar, for his larger-than-life performance as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn who is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary western which also features performances by Robert Duvall, Jeremy Slate and Strother Martin.
THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER: Katie Elder bore four sons. The day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. John Wayne is the eldest and toughest son, the gunslinger. Tom (Dean Martin) is good with a deck of cards and good with a gun when he has to be. Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one-nobody ever called him yellow...twice. Bud (Michael Anderson, Jr) is the youngest. Any hope for respectability lies with him.
EL DORADO: Heartless tycoon Bart Jason (Edward Asner) hires a group of thugs to force the MacDonald family out of El Dorado so he can claim their land. J.P. Harrah, the town's sheriff, is too deep in the throes of alcoholism to help the family. When Harrah's friend, noble elder gunfighter Cole Thorton (John Wayne), learns of the predicament, he travels to El Dorado with his upstart friend, Mississippi (James Caan), to help Harrah clean up in time for a shootout against Jason's men.
BIG JAKE: For the first time in Brilliant Hi-Def, this action-filled western stars John Wayne as Big Jake McCandles, a husband who hasn't seen his wife (Maureen O'Hara) in over 9 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout (Bruce Cabot) and a box of money - even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice. Spiced with humour and first-class gunfights, this is a vivid depiction of the last days of the wild.