Containing four of the best John Wayne Westerns.
True Grit
A pure western in which a lawmen tracks a criminal, TRUE GRIT, based on Charles
Portis' novel, reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway (THE SONS OF
KATIE ELDER).
Wayne is crotchety U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who would rather stay home than chase criminals. He heeds the call, though, when fourteen year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) calls on him to avenge her father's death at the hands of a man who has escaped into Indian territory. Glen Campbell is a Texas ranger who accompanies them for his own reasons.
El Dorado
In the town of El Dorado, wealthy landowner Bart Jason (Ed Asner) is embroiled
in a struggle with the MacDonald family, who own a large amount of land just
outside town lines. Jason hires gunman Cole Thornton (John Wayne) to scare the
MacDonalds in hope that they'll back down. Cole is pleased to discover that his
old friend J.B. (Robert Mitchum) is now the sheriff of the town. The sheriff
warns Cole that involvement with the crooked Jason will get him arrested.
Further circumstances entwine the hired gun with the MacDonald family, and he
sets out to destroy Jason.
Hondo
Apache war drums sound an ominous warning foran isolated female rancher and her
young son in this exciting and memorable JOHN WAYNE classic. Wayne plays Hondo
Lane, a cavalry rider who becomes the designated protector of the strong-willed
Angie Lowe (GERALDINE PAGE) as well as a father figure to her boy, Johnny (LEE
AAKER). Angie, determinedly awaiting the return of her brutish husband (LEO
GORDON), refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing danger from nearby
warring Native American tribes. And she finds herself growing more and more
enthralled with this stranger, Hondo – a man hardened by experience but still
capable of sympathy, kindness and love
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Senator Ranse Stoddard returns to the city Shinbone in the Wild West to go to
the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphon. To a journalist, who's wondering what
the senator is doing in Shinbone, he tells how his career started as “the man
who shot Liberty Valance”. As a lawyer he went to Shinbone, where he met his
wife Hallie and Tom Doniphon. He taught the people there to read and write. Then
he met the greatest bandit of the region, Liberty Valance…