John Wayne: 26 Free Western Films Online

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32 years after his death, John Wayne (né Mar­i­on Mor­ri­son) remains a tremen­dous­ly pop­u­lar movie star. Accord­ing to a Har­ris Poll tak­en ear­li­er this month (Jan­u­ary 2011), Amer­i­cans still rank The Duke as their third most favorite actor, putting him right behind John­ny Depp and Den­zel Wash­ing­ton. No doubt about it, the leg­end of John Wayne con­tin­ues to grow. And hap­pi­ly you can find a gold mine of John Wayne West­ern films online – all free. Today, we have pulled togeth­er a list of 25 films that span five decades of work, mov­ing from the 1930s to the 1970s. You can find them all oth­er­wise list­ed in our col­lec­tion of Free Movies Online.

  • Angel and the Bad­man Free — A black and white West­ern star­ring John Wayne and Gail Rus­sell. Con­sid­ered a rad­i­cal depar­ture from the West­ern genre at the time. Find Inter­net Archive ver­sion here. (1947)
  • Blue Steel – Free – John Wayne plays a U.S. Mar­shal try­ing to cap­ture the Pol­ka Dot Ban­dit. Some con­sid­er it the best of the John Wayne Lone Star films. (1934)
  • Born to the WestFree — Can Dare Rudd prove he is respon­si­ble enough to win the heart of Judy and also out­wit the crooked saloon own­er? Stars John Wayne, Mar­sha Hunt and John Mack Brown.
  • Fron­tier Hori­zon - Free — The Three Mes­que­teers try to pre­vent whole­sale slaugh­ter in this fine Repub­lic West­ern. Stars John Wayne, Ray “Crash” Cor­ri­g­an, and Ray­mond Hat­ton. (1939)
  • Hell­town — Free — Orig­i­nal­ly called “Born to the West,” this John Wayne West­ern was based on a nov­el by Zane Grey, an impor­tant author of West­ern nov­els. (1937)
  • McLin­tock! — Free — Com­e­dy West­ern star­ring John Wayne and Mau­reen O’Hara. Loose­ly based on Shakespeare’s The Tam­ing of the Shrew. (1963)
  • ‘Neath the Ari­zona Skies — Free — John Wayne plays a cow­boy pro­tect­ing an oil-land heiress. (1934)
  • Par­adise Canyon — Free — Fea­tures Wayne as “gov­ern­ment agent John Wyatt who search­es for a coun­ter­feit ring oper­at­ing on the Mexican/Arizona bor­der.” (1935)
  • Rain­bow Val­leyFree — John Mar­tin (John Wayne) is a “gov­ern­ment agent work­ing under cov­er. Lead­ing cit­i­zen Mor­gan calls in gun­man Butch Galt (Buf­fa­lo Bill Jr.) who blows Mar­t­in’s cov­er.” Find the YouTube ver­sion here. (1935)
  • Randy Rides Alone – Free – Jailed for mur­ders he didn’t com­mit, Randy Bow­ers (John Wayne) escapes only to stum­ble into the den of the real mur­der­ers. Enter­tain­ing ear­ly Wayne West­ern. (1934)
  • Rid­ers of Des­tiny -FreeJohn Wayne por­trays Sin­gin’ Sandy Saun­ders and has a rep­u­ta­tion as the most noto­ri­ous gun­man since Bil­ly the Kid. Wayne was the first singing cow­boy, but his singing was dubbed, and it was the last time he “sang” in a West­ern. (1933)
  • Sage­brush Trail — Free — John Wayne plays John Brant who escapes from jail after being wrong­ly accused of mur­der. Fea­tures great stage­coach chase. (1933)
  • Texas Ter­ror — Free – A young John Wayne in a roman­tic West­ern. (1935)
  • The Dawn Rid­er Free — John Wayne plays John Mason, a man aveng­ing his father’s mur­der. A West­ern direct­ed by Robert Brad­bury. (1935)
  • The Desert Trail Free — Ear­ly West­ern with John Wayne. Accord­ing to West­ern­Clip­pings, not Wayne’s finest hour. (1935)
  • The Law­less Fron­tier Free – B West­ern star­ring John Wayne and direct­ed by Robert Brad­bury. (1934)
  • The Lucky Tex­an Free — Jer­ry Mason (played by John Wayne) and Jake Ben­son become part­ners and strike it rich with a gold mine. (1934)
  • The Man From Utah Free – The Mar­shal sends John West­on (John Wayne) to a “rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo rid­ers who are about to win prize mon­ey.” (1934)
  • The Range FeudFree — Clint Turn­er is arrest­ed for the mur­der of his girl­friend Judy’s father, a rival ranch­er who was an ene­my of his own father. Stars John Wayne and Buck Jones. (1931)
  • The Star Pack­er Free – “A gang work­ing for ‘The Shad­ow’ is ter­ror­iz­ing the town. John Tra­vers (John Wayne) decides to take on the job of sher­iff and do some­thing about it.” (1934)
  • The Trail Beyond — Free – West­ern star­ring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr. (1934)
  • Two Fist­ed Law - Free — After Rob Rus­sell steals Tim Clark’s ranch, Clark starts prospect­ing for sil­ver. Stars John Wayne and Tim McCoy. (1932)
  • War of the Wild­cats Free – John Wayne stars in a West­ern also released under the title In Old Okla­homa. One of Wayne’s bet­ter post-Stage­coach per­for­mances. (1943)
  • West of the Divide – Free – A young John Wayne in a B West­ern. (1934)
  • Winds of the Waste­landFree — The arrival of the tele­graph put Pony Express rid­ers like John Blair (John Wayne) and his pal Smoky (Lane Chan­dler) out of work they try to start a stage­coach route through a ghost town. A rival stage­coach com­pa­ny tries to stop them. (1936)

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The Poetry of Photographer Milton Rogovin

Before the week comes to an offi­cial close, we want­ed to remem­ber and cel­e­brate the life of Mil­ton Rogovin, a social doc­u­men­tary pho­tog­ra­ph­er who, in the tra­di­tion of Walk­er Evans, used his cam­era to cham­pi­on the under­priv­i­leged — the work­ing poor and the under­class­es liv­ing in the Unit­ed States and beyond. He died this past week at the old age of 101. The New York Times revis­its his work in this obit­u­ary, and the short video above gives you a glimpse of the man and his body of work.

Sundance Film Festival 2011 on YouTube’s Screening Room

A quick note for film afi­ciona­dos: The 2011 edi­tion of the Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val is now under­way. And over the next two weeks, The YouTube Screen­ing Room will bring you short films from fes­ti­vals past and present. Right now, you can watch four new films by up-and-com­ing direc­tors – 8 Bits, Andy and Zach, The High Lev­el Bridge, and Skateis­tan: To Live and Skate in Kab­ul (above). More new films will be added on Jan­u­ary 27th and Feb­ru­ary 3rd. In the mean­time, you can catch sev­er­al oth­er short films that orig­i­nal­ly played at Sun­dance, or were made by Sun­dance Insti­tute alum­ni.

via Switched.com

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Alcohol in its Microscopic Splendor

Who knew that alco­hol could take on such beau­ty? What looks like abstract art above is actu­al­ly your every­day Cos­mopoli­tan. And, with­in this larg­er col­lec­tion, you will dis­cov­er the micro­scop­ic beau­ty of The Bloody Mary, Dry Mar­ti­ni, Pina Cola­da, Sake, Tequi­la, Vod­ka Ton­ic, Whiskey, and White Russ­ian. For more micro pho­tog­ra­phy, check out the win­ner of the 2010 Nikon Inter­na­tion­al Small World Pho­tomi­crog­ra­phy Com­pe­ti­tion, and our post ear­li­er this week, The First Snowflake Pho­tos (1885).

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Stop Motion Fun in Venice

Shel­ley Jones and Marko Anstice “space hop” through Venice with the help of some stop motion pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s a win­tery Venice, very dif­fer­ent from the city (watch video) mil­lions come to know dur­ing the sum­mer months.

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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: Free AudioBooks & eBooks

The Ili­ad and Odyssey — they form the bedrock of west­ern lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture. And now, thanks to Ian John­ston of Van­cou­ver Island Uni­ver­si­ty, you can find online numer­ous Eng­lish trans­la­tions of Home­r’s great epic poems, includ­ing some by major lit­er­ary heavy­weights. John­ston’s list fea­tures trans­la­tions of the Ili­ad by Thomas Hobbes (1675), George Chap­man (1614)Alexan­der Pope (1720), William Cullen Bryant (1870), Samuel But­ler (1888), and Rich­mond Lat­ti­more (1951), along with accom­pa­ny­ing ver­sions of the Odyssey. Sep­a­rate­ly, but cer­tain­ly worth not­ing, Lib­rivox offers free audio­book ver­sions of the Ili­ad and Odyssey, both based on the But­ler trans­la­tion. They’re now added to our list of Free Audio Books, and we have e‑texts with­in our Free eBooks col­lec­tion. H/T goes to Metafil­ter.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Pla­to’s Repub­lic … In Clay

Learn­ing Ancient His­to­ry for Free

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JFK’s Inauguration: 50 Years Ago Today

We have been going a lit­tle vin­tage late­ly, and we’ll have to do it one more day. For today marks the 50th anniver­sary of John F. Kennedy’s inau­gu­ra­tion, the begin­ing of a pres­i­den­cy that inspired many, even though it last­ed scarce­ly more than 1000 days. Kennedy’s inau­gur­al speech ran 1364 words and took 14 min­utes to deliv­er. That makes it sig­nif­i­cant­ly short­er than the longest inau­gur­al address (William Hen­ry Har­ri­son took 8,445 words in 1841) but longer than the ters­est one – George Wash­ing­ton spoke mere­ly 135 words dur­ing his sec­ond address. With 50 years of hind­sight, we still con­sid­er Kennedy’s speech one of the finest inau­gur­al address­es because, as E.J. Dionne writes this week, it chal­lenged the nation (and still does today) “to har­ness real­ism to ide­al­ism, patri­o­tism to ser­vice, nation­al inter­est to uni­ver­sal aspi­ra­tion,” espe­cial­ly with the eter­nal line: “And so, my fel­low Amer­i­cans: ask not what your coun­try can do for you — ask what you can do for your coun­try.” You can revis­it the speech in full above, and also find oth­er great archival footage with­in the new YouTube Chan­nel spon­sored by the JFK Pres­i­den­tial Library.

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The First Snowflake Photos (1885)

Back on a Ver­mont farm in 1885, Wil­son A. Bent­ley attached a micro­scope to a bel­lows cam­era and became the first per­son to pho­to­graph an indi­vid­ual snowflake. Two decades lat­er, he sent 500 prints of his snowflakes to the Smith­son­ian, where they still remain. (View some here.) And then, yet anoth­er two decades lat­er, he pub­lished a book packed with 2,400 snowflake images. NPR’s web site has more of Bent­ley’s work on dis­play. And, of course, you can find an entire trib­ute site ded­i­cat­ed to his win­tery work

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