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John Wayne Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
John Wayne appears in the billed cast of 74 films in our catalog, from 1930 to 1976. Top of the list is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ('1962), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Cowboys, 7.4 on IMDb against 52 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance '1962 | Western | 8.1 | 95% | 94 | 7.8 | John Ford |
| 2 | Rio Bravo '1959 | Western / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 93 | 7.8 | Howard Hawks |
| 3 | The Searchers '1956 | Western | 7.8 | 87% | 94 | 7.7 | John Ford |
| 4 | Stagecoach '1939 | Western | 7.8 | 100% | 93 | 7.6 | John Ford |
| 5 | Red River '1948 | Western / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 96 | 7.3 | Howard Hawks |
| 6 | The Quiet Man '1952 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 85 | 7.3 | John Ford |
| 7 | The Longest Day '1962 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 83% | 75 | 7.6 | Ken Annakin |
| 8 | The Shootist '1976 | Western | 7.6 | 81% | 77 | 7.1 | Don Siegel |
| 9 | El Dorado '1966 | Western / Drama | 7.5 | 96% | 85 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 10 | Fort Apache '1948 | Western | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 11 | True Grit '1969 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 87% | 83 | 7.3 | Henry Hathaway |
| 12 | The Cowboys '1972 | Western / Drama / Action | 7.4 | 75% | 52 | 7.1 | Mark Rydell |
| 13 | Hatari! '1962 | Comedy / Action | 7.1 | 65% | - | 6.8 | Howard Hawks |
| 14 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon '1949 | Drama / Western | 7.2 | 91% | 87 | 6.9 | John Ford |
| 15 | In Harm's Way '1965 | War / Drama | 7.3 | 37% | - | 6.6 | Otto Preminger |
| 16 | They Were Expendable '1945 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 91% | 86 | 6.5 | John Ford |
| 17 | McLintock! '1963 | Western / Comedy | 7.1 | 50% | 62 | 6.6 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 18 | Big Jake '1971 | Western | 7.1 | 75% | 57 | 6.8 | George Sherman |
| 19 | Sands of Iwo Jima '1950 | War / Drama | 7.0 | 100% | 75 | 6.4 | Allan Dwan |
| 20 | The Sons of Katie Elder '1965 | Western | 7.1 | 100% | 72 | 7.0 | Henry Hathaway |
| 21 | North to Alaska '1960 | Western / Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.5 | Henry Hathaway |
| 22 | The Big Trail '1930 | Drama / Western | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Raoul Walsh |
| 23 | Rio Grande '1950 | Western | 7.0 | 73% | - | 6.8 | John Ford |
| 24 | 3 Godfathers '1948 | Western | 7.0 | 88% | 82 | 6.8 | John Ford |
| 25 | The Horse Soldiers '1959 | Western / War | 7.1 | 81% | - | 6.9 | John Ford |
| 26 | Hondo '1953 | Western | 7.0 | 90% | 79 | 6.5 | John Farrow |
| 27 | The Shepherd of the Hills '1941 | Drama / Western | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Henry Hathaway |
| 28 | Tall in the Saddle '1944 | Western | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Edwin L. Marin |
| 29 | Island in the Sky '1953 | Drama | 6.8 | 86% | - | 6.2 | William A. Wellman |
| 30 | The Alamo '1960 | War / Western | 6.8 | 55% | - | 7.1 | John Wayne |
| 31 | The Long Voyage Home '1940 | Drama / War | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.6 | John Ford |
| 32 | The Comancheros '1961 | Western | 6.8 | 100% | 55 | 6.7 | Michael Curtiz |
| 33 | Chisum '1970 | Western | 6.8 | 80% | - | 6.6 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 34 | Angel and the Badman '1947 | Western / Romance / Action | 6.8 | 71% | - | 6.4 | James Edward Grant |
| 35 | Cahill: United States Marshal '1973 | Drama / Western | 6.4 | - | 61 | 6.1 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 36 | The Train Robbers '1973 | Western | 6.4 | 40% | 64 | 6.3 | Burt Kennedy |
| 37 | Donovan's Reef '1963 | Comedy / Romance | 6.7 | 67% | 64 | 6.2 | John Ford |
| 38 | The War Wagon '1967 | Western / Action / Crime | 6.8 | - | - | 6.8 | Burt Kennedy |
| 39 | Back to Bataan '1945 | War / Drama | 6.6 | 86% | - | 6.1 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 40 | Dark Command '1940 | Drama / Romance / Western | 6.7 | 100% | - | 6.4 | Raoul Walsh |
| 41 | The Wings of Eagles '1957 | Drama / War | 6.6 | 33% | - | 6.3 | John Ford |
| 42 | Wake of the Red Witch '1948 | Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 5.9 | Edward Ludwig |
| 43 | Rooster Cogburn '1975 | Drama / Western | 6.8 | 50% | - | 6.4 | Stuart Millar |
| 44 | Rio Lobo '1970 | Western | 6.7 | 71% | 55 | 6.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 45 | The Spoilers '1942 | Drama / Western | 6.7 | - | - | 6.2 | Ray Enright |
| 46 | Flying Tigers '1942 | Action / Drama / War | 6.7 | 70% | - | 6.3 | David Miller |
| 47 | The High and the Mighty '1954 | Drama | 6.6 | 46% | - | 5.9 | William A. Wellman |
| 48 | In Old Oklahoma '1943 | Western | 6.4 | - | - | 6.2 | Albert S. Rogell |
| 49 | Reap the Wild Wind '1942 | Action / Romance | 6.6 | 80% | - | 6.3 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 50 | The Undefeated '1969 | Western | 6.6 | 44% | 48 | 6.3 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 51 | Allegheny Uprising '1939 | Western / Action | 6.3 | - | - | 5.9 | William A. Seiter |
| 52 | The Fighting Kentuckian '1949 | Western / Romance | 6.4 | - | - | 6.0 | George Waggner |
| 53 | Hellfighters '1968 | Action / Romance | 6.5 | 13% | - | 6.3 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 54 | Blood Alley '1955 | Action / Drama | 6.2 | 40% | - | 6.0 | William A. Wellman |
| 55 | The Fighting Seabees '1944 | Drama / Action / War | 6.4 | 100% | - | 6.2 | Edward Ludwig |
| 56 | Legend of the Lost '1957 | - | 6.1 | - | - | 6.2 | Henry Hathaway |
| 57 | Flying Leathernecks '1951 | War / Action / Drama | 6.3 | 67% | 75 | 5.8 | Nicholas Ray |
| 58 | Winds of the Wasteland '1936 | Western | 6.0 | - | - | 5.2 | Mack V. Wright |
| 59 | The Desert Trail '1935 | Action / Western | 5.2 | - | - | 4.7 | Lewis D. Collins |
| 60 | Riders of Destiny '1933 | Action / Western | 5.4 | - | - | 5.3 | Robert N. Bradbury |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.