Big Jake (1971) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | John Wayne is a Legend!
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2023
- Thanks to Grandaddy Dudester for the Special Request! We both check out the Legendary John Wayne in Big Jake (1971). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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James was played by Patrick Wayne, and the grandson was played by Ethan Wayne. Both are sons of John Wayne.
Also, the other son is played by Christopher Mitchum, which is Robert Mitchum son
And this movie premiered in theatres on John Wayne's birthday in 1971!
Patrick is the son by Duke's first wife, Ethan is the son of his third wife.
Woah, the little boy was his son too? That's strange to think about.
Never knew that.
@@76tennboy The son who is shot (Jeff McCandles) is played by Bobby Vinton, singer of Blue Velvet, Mr. Lonely, and Roses are Red.
I like the fact that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne never said we will give them what they want but, we'll give them what they asked for.
Ethan Wayne was John Wayne's youngest son. The one who plays his son Michael was played by Robert Mitchum's son.
Personally, I think that El Dorado, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katie Elder, Hatari, Donovan's Reef, The Green Berets, the original True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, and Chisum are all worth reacting to, as well.
McLintock!
Horse Soldiers too!
the gang fight always kills me xD ass whoopins all around@@PrayerfullyBlessedMama
I would add The Quiet Man, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Rio Lobo to your nice list, and the nnniiiccceee!
A series of John Wayne movie reactions, would be just the thing
Regarding the dog: Two collies, trained by Robert Weatherwax and Rudd Weatherwax, played Dog, John Wayne's faithful companion: Silver and Laddie (Lassie Jr.) for the stunts. Eventually Laddie won a PATSY award for his performance in this film. The wooden base with a tile and a small brass placard read "Award of Excellence - 1971 / Laddie (Dog) / Bobby Weatherwax, Owner-Trainer / Big Jake". "Streaks and tip" from an aerosol can were used to make their coats darker.
Laddie was the son of Lassie. Also, one of the big inconsistencies found in the film, as you noticed, was how their coloring jumped around from dirty brown to almost black. Did they just think no one would notice? lol
My favorite character(s): Sam and Dog. It figures they'd both wind up dead. lol
"The Cowboys", "Rio Bravo", "True Grit" fav Wayne movies. The Cowboys has one of John Williams best soundtracks.
Even better are how many careers The Cowboys launched.
@@thunderchaser2042 There is a great 50th Anniversary reunion of all the kids on RUclips. Great stories! Half the kids were Actors, half were real Cowboys. They had to teach each other how to be the other.
I like this movie a lot, and I'm very grateful that you reacted to it, but I'm still been a little peeved all these years that the McCandles couldn't take just a moment to give Sam and Dog their due for giving their lives to help save Little Jake.
That always bugged me too. The ending is terribly abrupt.
Best to end on a high note.
If you haven't seen True Grit (the john wayne version) or The Searchers, i would recommend those. These two and A Quiet Man are for me, Wayne's best films. Big Jake and War Wagon (fun movie as well) sit just below those three. Oh, and in case you missed it, a very young Bobby Vinton (the singer) portrayed Jeff McCandles, the son who was shot in the beginning. And yes, that was Wayne's son, Patrick Wayne.
The Searchers is one of my favorite John Wayne movies; probably second only to "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". My take on it is very different from most people's... sucks to be most people, I guess.
I love Rio Bravo; I even have it on my phone sometimes so I can watch it on break/lunch at work.
"The Sons of Katie Elder" I've always had trouble watching... especially since my parents passed away.
Hearing, "Katie WINS this one" can bring me to tears of shame.
@@HiraghmThe Searchers should have earned Wayne an Oscar. His recalling finding Lucy’s body was his best performance and the stare he gave that freed captive girl is spine chilling.
The ending of the Searchers is absolutely quintessential cinema
Love the brief scenes with Maureen Ohara and Richard Boone with John Wayne. "I thought you was dead." "Not hardly." Thanks for watching this old movie, for me it's an old guilty pleasure. Love Rio Bravo - awesome movie and cast.
John Carpenter gave a nod to the "I thought you were dead" running gag in "Escape From New York."
Rio Bravo, El Dorado... you say tomato, I say... same movie made years apart...
"I thought you was dead!" Love his response. One of my favorite Duke movies.
You kind of get the notion that if they knew that Big Jake was alive, they might’ve gone after some other rancher’s grandson.
If you're going to do a John Wayne movie try "The Cowboys", or his final movie "The Shootist".
The Searchers.
@Devon Lott It was OK. Personally I think "The Shootist" was his best.
@LW Man, that's John Fords' magnum Opus. The cinematography & story are the 🐝 knees.
@Devon Lott I'm a gen x'er, son of a boomer and Vietnam vet. The cowboys was the first John Wayne move I watched with my dad. Now I can't watch either of them without crying. Lost my dad to cancer 13 years ago.
@LW Damn, man, I get it. My condolences, brah.
Wow, great choice. This is probably my favorite John Wayne movie. The introduction to Big Jake is one of the best character introductions of all time.
I was 12 when this was made and saw it in the theater with my Grandpa. Wayne was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in 1964. As a result he had his Left Superior Lung and two rib's removed. I have also had my Left Lung removed and inner chest wall scraped of Cancer that migrated there from the Lung. The first four day's after the surgery I just screamed. Wayne was back working the year after his surgery. I think the first film he made after was "The Son's of Katie Elder" in 1965. Then in 1969 he won the Best Actor, Academy Award for "True Grit". You should check out his final film "The Shootist". The plot is prophetic, and you have actor's like Richard Boone and "Fatty" from this film playing in it. It also has Ron Howard and as I think we talked about it being Jimmy Stewart's last "on screen" performance. That's enough, sorry, I can get carried away!!
Jimmy Stewart appeared in Airport `77, The Big Sleep, The Magic of Lassie, and A Tale of Africa after The Shootist. Not counting TV and voice work.
One of my favorite John Wayne films.
I also like Rooster Cogburn And True Grit.
A little trivia. As you noticed, Dog appeared different from shot to shot. It was the same dog throughout the movie. The reason that he appears so different, is because he's a Collie that had hair dye applied! He looked different, because it was temporary, and If he got wet for any reason, it would start to wash out. Also, the younger son Michael was played by Robert Mitchum's son Christopher.
There were actually two collies used in the movie, named Silver and Laddie.
In the ambush scene, Michael was riding around looking for the boy
Man, I've been waiting for FOREVER for people to start reacting to these movies.
Ethan Wayne wasn't his grandson, he was his son.
Great to see you reacting to this one. And it has the best on-screen introduction of a John Wayne character!!
Except for the one in "Stagecoach."
Fun fact: the son that rode the motorcycle was Robert Mitchams son.
He's also in the John Wayne movie "Rio Lobo"
The Cowboys! Excellent!
Love John Wayne flicks. The Comancheros and the War Wagon are also great.
The dog is a Collie, probably a dog used in one of that Lassie movies. For some reason the dog's coat was dyed black and as the days passed, the color faded.
See "The Shootist", a very special JW film. An aging gunfighter dying of cancer,
played by an actor who is keenly aware of his own impending mortality.
Also, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". The essential John Wayne western.
I love this movie. Never thought I'd see someone react to this
I still feel this was one of John Wayne's best movies there was humor there was action, and everything else you could applaud
My dad was a huge John Wayne fan so I saw a lot of these movies on TV with him, I love this one.
10:28 yep, that is John Wayne's son. Patrick Wayne did make a small cameo in Young Guns starring Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland, as Pat Garrett.
Can't wait!!! Best line in the movie is Dog..."
North to Alaska is a must watch John Wayne film. You two will love it.
Saw The Cowboys at the theater, classic! And in my opinion John Williams best!
Little Jake was played by his youngest son Ethan (not his grandson) by another mother than older son Patrick. Several of his children including a young Patrick appear in the movie The Quiet Man". The actor playing Wayne's other son in the movie (Michael) was actually Robert Mitchum's son Christopher. I noticed that John Wayne was wearing his Montagnard bracelet from his trip to S. Vietnam in conjunction with making the movie "The Green Berets" in 1967. I watched the movie at an outdoor theater at Cam Ranh Bay, S. Viet. when released in 1968. The brass bracelets were popular with the troops. After returning from Viet. I wound up meeting the stunt man who did all of the motorcycle stunts. He & I both raced sprint cars at Ascot Park in Calif.
Ethan is John Wayne's son, not grandson. The one on the motorcycle is Robert Mitchum's son.
In the last scene with the thunderstorm, it reminds me of how spectacular they are when they occur in the vast reaches of the Arizona or New Mexico deserts
Richard Boone was in a tv series called "Have Gun, Will Travel" (the title was borrowed by Robert A. Heinlein for my favorite science fiction book, "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"), where he played "Paladin" a somewhat refined, wealthy cowboy who went around helping people.
He also played General Sam Houston (the same one the city is named for), in John Wayne's "The Alamo".
(How can you call yourself 'merican if you haven't seen The Alamo with John Wayne as Congressman Davy Crockett?)
He was also in John Wayne's last movie, "The Shootist".
After that, he also had a short-lived tv series called "Hec Ramsey", where he played an old-fashioned lawman at the turn of the 20th century (I think the guy who plays his boss was also in The Shootist).
Richard Boone really was one of the greatest screen villains. He was in Wayne's last movie The Shootist, and he was at his most sinister with Paul Newman in Hombre.
I forgot about him in Hombre!
The father of Little Jake was played by the Polish Prince of Song, Bobby Vinton!
Sam Sharpnose is played by Bruce Cabot, who started as Jack Driscoll in 1933's King Kong. He appeared in Wayne's McClintock! as well.
Cabot was a regular in Wayne westerns. He's also the villain in 'The War Wagon'.
THANK YOU , FOR DOING THIS REACTION!! The last decade of John Wayne were some of the best....!!
This is one of my 5 favorite John Wayne movies, along with The Cowboys, Hellfighters, McClintock and Donovan's Reef
John Wayne's other son Michael would serve as Producer for Wayne's Batjac production company. Playing his Indian friend was Wayne's longtime friend actor Bruce Cabot. His career goes back to the 1930's and he appeared in the original "King Kong" .
Cabot was in Hatari and The Hellfighters with him, too.
Hi guys. Richard Boone (the head bad guy) had a tremendous resume in movies and TV. He played a bad guy again in Wayne's final movie The Shootist, which is a great Wayne movie as well, co-starring Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard. Boone had a 6 or 7 year run on TV as Paladin in a series called Have Gun Will Travel. For a western with some laughs as well also co-starring Maureen O'Hara I highly recommend McClintock. His film The Green Berets is also a good watch. For a different kind of Wayne film there is a movie called Trouble Along the Way co-starring Donna Reed (Mary from it's a Wonderful Life). He plays a single Dad and football coach.
The deer, that is a quarter mile away, startles and runs when it notices John Wayne and Chris Mitchum watching it. However, the scene with the deer comes right after Mitchum emptied his entire pistol magazine, which apparently did not startle the animal. I guess the deer must have been deaf.
Weird fact: this film film premiered in theaters with a GP (precursor to PG) rating. Then it re-released as "family fare" with a slightly edited G rating in 1972. Then it was left uncut without change to the G rating until 2003 when it got the PG-13 rating for Western Violence. Strangely enough, it still airs on family channels with a TV-G rating with the violence totally uncensored, but with the light language bleeped out. This is me and my grandparents' favorite John Wayne movie! My grandmother recalled her own grandmother, my great-great-grandmother, getting so mad when she realized the brothers onscreen were not brothers in real life. She was so convinced by the chemistry of the cast!
G rated movies had a much greater tolerance for violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s.The Green Berets had a G rating despite lots of violence including people being killed in punji traps and burning bodies hanging on barbed wire. Planet of the Apes had violence (and nudity and profanity) and a G rating (Conquest of the planet of the Apes was the only one of the original series not to get a G rating). Other G rated movies with violence include Tora, Tora, Tora and 2001.
Dog 🐶 was my favorite character in Big Jake.
The Gunfighter 1950 with Gregory Peck, The Fastest Gun Alive 1956 with Glenn Ford, and True Grit (1969) with John Wayne..three great westerns..
Yes, John Wayne cast two of his sons in this movie, as well as close friend Robert Mitchum's son.
A few years previous he had wanted to cast his daughter Aissa in the "Mattie Ross" role in "True Grit". But, whereas "Big Jake" was a Batjac production, Wayne's own company, True Grit was a studio film and he didn't have casting approval, and Kim Darby had already been cast.
Pat Wayne was in The Comancheros and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with John Wayne.
The man playing Buck the ranger was the undertaker in "The Sons of Katie Elder" (I said I have trouble watching it, not that I never did).
The man playing Sam played "The Indian" Littlewolf in "Hatari!" with Wayne. He was also in "Hellfighters" and "The Green Berets" with Wayne.
One of my favorite movies, so much I named my son Jacob in 1983. He loves the movie. Neighbor across the street had a son named Jacob also he was a couple years younger. We called him little Jake and my son was Big Jake!
Yes, that is Patrick Wayne who starred in several movies with his father, John.
He appeared in 9 John Wayne movies according to IMDB.
Gotta do The Shootist. His last before he died and arguably his best, in close competition with True Grit.
A lot of people view this as sort of a sequel to McClintock. The names are similar (not to mention using the same sets for the town, train depot, and ranch house), plus you have Maureen O'Hara and Patrick Wayne in virtually the same parts.
this movie was a yearly (at least) watch for me, one of my favorite John Wayne movies of all time ( he has a few for me). Oh and the point of the crazy motorcycle at the "ambush" was just as a distraction, to keep the bad guys from killing more of the sheriffs men.
So yes John Wayne had his kid and probably his real grandson but there was Christopher Mitchem son of famous movie star Robert Mitchem.
Richard Boone back in the day played antihero/hero Paladin iconic western TV hero played bad guy here so well. Thís movie is chock full of classic western movie and tv stars of the day and before the day.
Favorite all time line that after this movie I have heard in different genres of other movies: I thought you were dead. Not hardly.
Awesome pick love this movie. Great reaction :)
Love the John Wayne movies.
You should try "The Undefeated", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", "Rio Grande" and "McClintock".
Always good to watch The Duke.
Now you two need to see some of his earlier movies and then for variety, _'In Harm's Way'_ for W.W. II and _'The Green Berets'_ for Vietnam.
There were 2 dogs. One was named Silver and the second was Laddie, who did the stunts.
This film took place in 1909. John Wayne was two years old!
The idea of the motorcycle passes was to distract the villains from getting aim.
In the scene where 3 men are standing together and Wayne asks where his other son is & Patrick says "he'll be here," the man on the extreme left is John Wayne's stand-in and stuntman in many films.
The man on the motorcycle is Chris Mitchum (actor Robert Mitchum's younger son).
Dog wranglers often use more than one dog during a film shoot. There were 3 Lassies during the filming of that series (all related).
The 'terrifying' guy who hadn't bathed in 4 years...
Was the son of one of Wayne's best friends, Harry Carey Sr (so he's Harry Carey Jr).
When Wayne and Senior were stuntmen together, they invented the barroom brawl.
You will see Jr in several John Wayne movies, such as "The Searchers", "The Three Godfathers", "Rio Grande", and my favorite "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon".
But, you won't recognize him. He's bathed and clean-shaven.
(Pat Wayne had a cameo in "The Searchers").
My late father and I had a very wonderful relationship. My parents divorced when I was a baby, then reintroduced when I was 13. We became not only father and son but best buds! Well, as the years went on, I used Patrick Wayne's "Daddy" tone many times! In same context , too lol. Dad never hit me. I irritated him with this so what did dad do? He dropped his head ,started to laugh , then gave me a big hug and an "I love you, son"....
If you really want to watch some great John Wayne flicks I highly suggest you check out The Quiet Man, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Shootist!
The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo and The Searchers are top tier my friend!
The one son early in the movie who is back home recovering…is Bobby Vinton everyone’s favorite singer in the 70’s…Roses Are Red,, Blue Velvet, Blue on Blue..and so many more..
Please do Rio Bravo at some point. Wayne's best performance is probably in The Shootist, but Rio Bravo is my favourite film of his.
I say do a triple feature Rio Bravo, El Dorado and Rio Lobo...
John Wayne was one of those western legends like Clint Eastwood, James Arness and Lee Marvin.
Dog was two collies, Silver and Laddie ( Lassie Jr.) They died them because they looked identical to their mother Lassie.😊
My mom watched this movie right be4 she went into labor with me. Thank you mom for changing my name to Jacob. And starbuck is doing better. 2 cancers and she's still kicking ass😊.
It was the same dog in every scene (Son of Lassie). The colored him black every morning but the dye faded quickly.
This is one of my top three John Wayne films. Loved watching it as a kid with my father.
Actually, Waynes son Ethan played his grandson. Ethan was named after Waynes favorite character from "The Searchers". Christopher Mitchum, son of actor Robert Mitchum played his son on the dirt bike.
The saddest death ever was poor old dog. What a guy.
Seems like John Wayne movies always had these kinda friendly fist fights in them
Cattle ranchers hated sheep because sheep pull the grass up by the roots, whereas cows and horses sheer it off.
The dog in the movie was Lassie, painted darker color.
Try John Wayne in Hatari and Donovan's Reef for a change of pace. You absolutely have to see his last movie before he died. The movie The Shootist is perfect to remember him by. Many of the actors that were cast in this appeared for little or no money. They knew the Duke was very sick at the time with cancer. He had to take oxygen between scenes. He changed the movie ending because it pissed him off.
The motorcycle was a distraction saving the people trapped behind the cars
Sam , the Indian friend was played by Bruce Cabot , the leading man and romantic interest in 1933 s King Kong and Fay Wray 's lover . He was in several John Wayne movies in his latter years . He and Wayne were friends and drinking buddies . If this was a Batjac { John Wayne ] production it was produced by his eldest son Michael Wayne .
John Wayne will be my favorite character in any movie he’s in- but next to him, his sons AND his good friend Robert Mitchum’ as on played Michael.
Most John Wayne movies you have very clear lines between evil and good. Unlike movies today where everything is gray.
One of my favorite John Wayne movies. Patrick Wayne also plays Pat Garrett in Young Guns.
When I was a kid they showed John Wayne (and older movies) on the Late Late Show (movies after the news) on Saturday nights. That's where I first saw two of my favorite Duke films - Big Jake & Hatari. Hatari is about professional game catchers with a bit of Rom/Com thrown in. Shot on location in Tanganyika (what is now Tanzania) this Howard Hawks film is full of beautiful scenery, animals and laughs. Definitely worth a watch and I believe currently it's free on You Tube.
John Wayne named his son Ethan after the character he played in The Searchers.
Two collies, trained by Robert Weatherwax and Rudd Weatherwax, played Dog, John Wayne's faithful companion: Silver and Laddie (Lassie Jr.) for the stunts. Eventually Laddie won a PATSY award for his performance in this film.
they dyed the dogs coats but the water scenes the dye was washing out during filming
My nephew is named after this movie, my parents favorite. May they rip.
The son on the motorcycle is actually Christopher Mitchum, the son of the famous actor Robert Mitchum.
Other people name other movies - True Grit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (one of my favorites), and for some reason, The Searchers - but if anyone ever asks me "Who's John Wayne?" THIS is the movie I'll show them.
In real life John Chism never carried a gun but try telling that to John Wayne.
Both Wayne’s are his sons. Just different mothers and enough years between the two the younger one has to play his grandson in the movie
When you watch a John Wayne movie you see a lot of familiar faces from prior movies. John Wayne was extremely loyal to his friends. When Yvonne de Carlo was having financial problems a movie he was into create a part for her. Then he lined her up for other work to get her out of that financial jam. It was also extremely patriotic about America. I'm going to shake his hand when I pass.
This one's possibly my favorite John Wayne movie, that I've seen. I always loved the interactions he has with his sons. Especially the first one.
I think Mr. McClintock is another favorite John Wayne movie of mine. Mainly for the fighting scenes.
Fun reaction. Good to see you know John Wayne movies and appreciate them. Yeah. Dog was a great actor that he could change his coloring. Why wasn't he recognized with an Oscar? 😉
Just subbed.
Michael McCandles was played by Christopher Mitchum who is actor Robert Mitchum's second son.
This was a one off.
When John Wayne picked the fight with Mr. Sweet he gets back up and puts on the derby. This could be a bit of an ode to one of his buddies Oliver Hardy. Babe Hardy and the Duke were very good friends. They did one movie together while Stan Laurel was suffering complications from diabetes. The movie was The Fighting Kentuckian (1949).
For those that don't know, Laurel and Hardy go back to the silent era as a comedy team. Stanley was actually Chaplin's understudy when they were in Fred Karno's Circus. The Music Box is the comedy duo's most famous short and won an academy award for best live action short (comedy).
This is one of my favorite John Wayne movies...but also check out some of my other favorites: Rio Bravo and El Dorado.
This is one of my fav John Wayne movies.
Little late getting here 😃 I was watching John Wayne in The Alamo 😊
1 million dollars in 1909 is equivalent to 30 million dollars today.
Trivia: The automobiles driven by the Texas Rangers with the "REO" emblem are NOT REO Speedwagons but rather Touring Cars from the same manufacturer, the REO Motor Company. The REO company was named for its founder Random E. Olds who would go on to found the Oldsmobile company which later became a division of General Motors. The REO Speedwagon did actually exist and was one of the first commercially available "Pick-Up Trucks" produced first in 1926.
Jake's son Michael is played by Robert Mitchum's son Christopher.
The exchange between Martha and Jake when the Rangers consider going in with the cars is one of my all-time favorite scenes across any movie. When Jake says, "No, you made the decision alone, you live it alone." Then she says, "You haven't changed.."
"Not one bit!"
Sam and dog are definitely the unsung heroes, but Jake definitely stands above the rest.
And I agree, The Shootest, with an All-Star cast, is my favorite just ahead of Big Jake and The Cowboys. Rio Lobo, for me, is slightly better than Rio Bravo, but Dean Martin is excellent as Dude.
I liked Mitchum as the drunken sheriff in El Dorado, but both are great in their own way.
Great John Wayne reaction - His last film, "The Shootist" is one of my favorites. If you ever get the chance, two westerns that really like are:
- Red Sun (starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune, in an East meets West western)
- Lonesome Dove (the TV Mini-series starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval)
The dog was a collie darkened with vegetable dye. You can see it wear off over time, then be re applied.
Richard Boone, the villain, played Paladin, the hero of Have Gun Will Travel