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Big Jake is a 1971 American Technicolor Western film starring John Wayne, Richard Boone and Maureen O'Hara. The picture was the final film for George Sherman in a directing career of more than 30 years, and Maureen O'Hara's last film with John Wayne and her last before her twenty-year retirement. The supporting cast features Patrick Wayne ...
May 26, 1971 · Big Jake: Directed by George Sherman, John Wayne. With John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne. In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.
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- Drama, Western
- George Sherman, John Wayne
- 1971-05-26
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Big Jake McCandles is on the trail of a gang of cutthroat criminals in this action drama which stretches from Texas to Mexico. It's 1909, and the Old West is giving way to modern times. When the outlaw gang led by evil John Fain raids the McCandles' family ranch, kidnapping his 8-year-old grandson, wife Martha, whom he hasn't seen in many years ...
The avenging head of the McCandle clan returns to his estranged family and leads the search for his kidnapped grandson. Big Jake sets off, his sons in tow, to deliver the ransom to the kidnappers ...
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- George Sherman
- PG-13
- John Wayne
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Big Jake, released in 1971, is one of many westerns that ride the trail blazed by The Searchers, the 1956 classic by John Ford that some critics consider the genre's all-time-greatest film. Again the hero is played by John Wayne, and again he's a tumbling tumbleweed of a man who rediscovers family values when deadly marauders snatch an innocent ...
70 %. Written by CinemaSerf on January 24, 2023. This is probably the most violent of Wayne's westerns depicting a tale of an estranged husband who returns home after his grandson is taken hostage by a ruthless gang of kidnappers. This well paced thoughtful drama takes us on the journey as he - with his two sons and an almost unrecognisable ...
