Rating: PG-13 (western violence)
Length: 109 minutes

Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 2.0
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

English

A small boy is kidnapped and held for ransom. His grandmother summons her ex-husband (Wayne) to get him back. She knows it will take a special kind of man for this job.

It's a John Wayne western with quite a bit of humor. "You can call me Dad, you can call me Father, you can call me Jacob and you can call me Jake. You can call me a dirty old son-of-a-bitch, but if you EVER call me Daddy again, I'll finish this fight."

This movie takes place after the advent of the automobile. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but the scenes with the cars and motorcycle just doesn't fit in with a John Wayne western.

• None

It's not my favorite John Wayne movie but it's certainly high on the list. Wayne was 64 when this movie was filmed; he only did 7 other films before he passed away 8 years later.

John Agar - Bert Ryan (McCandles Ranch foreman)

[Chisum]

Richard Boone - John Fain (gang leader)

[The Desert Fox, The Shootist]

Bruce Cabot - Sam Sharpnose

[Chisum, Diamonds Are Forever, The Green Berets, King Kong (1933), McLintock!]

Virginia Capers - Delilah (McCandles' maid)

[Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Truman]

Harry Carey Jr. - Pop Dawson (Fain gang member)

Glenn Corbett - O'Brien, aka Breed (Fain gang member)

[Chisum]

Jim Davis - Head of lynching party

[Rio Lobo]

John Doucette - Texas Ranger Capt. Buck Duggan

[The Sons of Katie Elder, True Grit]

Roy Jenson - Gunman at bathhouse in Escondero

[Chinatown, Helter Skelter]

Christopher Mitchum - Michael McCandles

[Rio Lobo]

Maureen O'Hara - Martha McCandles

[McLintock!, The Quiet Man]

Gregg Palmer - John Goodfellow (Fain gang member)

[The Shootist, To Hell and Back]

Bobby Vinton - Jeff McCandles

Bill Walker - Moses Brown (McCandles' cook)

John Wayne - Jacob McCandles

[The Alamo (1960), The Cowboys, Donovan's Reef, El Dorado, Flying Leathernecks, The Green Berets, In Harm's Way, McLintock!, The Quiet Man, Rio Lobo, Rooster Cogburn, The Sands of Iwo Jima, The Shootist, The Sons of Katie Elder, True Grit]

Patrick Wayne - James McCandles

[The Alamo (1960), The Green Berets, McLintock!, Rustlers' Rhapsody, Young Guns]