Ward Bond

John Ford’s second sound picture. George O’Brien joins the Naval Academy, endures hazing from the upperclassmen, and rivals his older brother, a West Point cadet, for a girl. John Wayne and Ward Bond have small parts as O’Brien’s upperclassmen tormentors. The film culminates with the big Army-Navy football game pitting brother against brother.

A botched jewel robbery lands gangster Lowe in court. Up for re-election, the judge seizes the publicity opportunity and sentences Lowe to fight in World War I. In France, he plays baseball, sees some action, and returns a war hero. Back in New York, Lowe opens a nightclub, falls for socialite Owen, and crosses his former gang. The mix of comedy, wartime drama, and gangster film never gels, but Ford’s formal execution—love the final shootout—makes it passable. Look fast for Ward Bond as a drill sergeant.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse features Edward G. Robinson as the titular doctor, a society physician secretly investigating criminal behavior by committing jewel heists then collecting data about his physical state of being, such as blood pressure and heart rate, with plans to publish his results for the good of mankind.

Humphrey Bogart plays Whip McCord, the leader of an outlaw gang who opens the film robbing a stagecoach. Enter James Cagney as the titular kid, another outlaw who, in turn, robs McCord and his gang.

Fledgling lawyer Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda) defends two brothers accused of murder.

A frontiersman (Henry Fonda) and his new bride (Claudette Colbert) settle in upstate New York only to face hostile Indians and the Revolutionary War.

Fresh out of prison, a man (Henry Fonda) rejoins his sharecropper family in Oklahoma, only to find them forced out of their homes and preparing to travel to California in search of work.

A group of merchant seamen endures the early days of World War II.

Fresh out of West Point, officers Jeb Stewart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) track radical abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey) and woo the beautiful Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland).

Based on the true story of Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a hillbilly sharpshooter reluctant to fight in World War I because of his religion, who became the most decorated soldier in US history.

A private eye (Humphrey Bogart) becomes involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless statue.

Tall in the Saddle proffers a novel amalgam of the hard-boiled detective story and western.

A gambler (John Wayne) and his bride (Vera Ralston) help wheat farmers fight swindlers in 1871 Dakota.

PT boat captains (Robert Montgomery and John Wayne) defend the Philippines against the Japanese in World War II, despite little initial support from Navy brass.

Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) shoot it out with old man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his sons at the O.K. Corral.

A selfless man (James Stewart) contemplating suicide glimpses a world where he’d never been born, courtesy of a second-class angel, Clarence (Henry Travers).

A Cavalry officer (John Wayne) watches as his ambitious and arrogant commanding officer (Henry Fonda) leads the company into a massacre.

A group of outlaws (John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, and Harry Carey Jr.) adopts a dying woman’s baby in the desert and vows to bring it to safety.

A Mormon leader (Ward Bond) hires a pair of horse traders (Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr.) to lead his followers to a colony across the Utah desert.

A man (John Wayne) moves home to Ireland and falls in love with a woman (Maureen O’Hara) whose ornery brother picks a fight.

An Army dispatch rider (John Wayne) protects a frontier woman and her son from warring Apaches.

The Long Gray Line is a whitewashed, but nonetheless entertaining look at life at the United States Military Academy at West Point through the eyes of an Irish immigrant, played by Tyrone Power.

Considering all the drama involved behind the scenes, it’s amazing Mister Roberts is even watchable, let alone good.

The Searchers is a very good film about a very flawed man.

The life story of pioneer Navy aviator and Hollywood screenwriter Frank W. “Spig” Wead (John Wayne).

Texas sheriff John Wayne holds a powerful cattle baron’s no-good brother for murder with only drunken deputy Dean Martin and cantankerous jailer Walter Brennan for support.