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Big Jake (1971)
Director: George Sherman
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From Time Out Film Guide
A late Wayne Western, depending heavily on recycling better (and no better) earlier pictures. Strung together in a one-suspect kidnapping yarn are the family feuds and father/son reconciliations first encountered in Shepherd of the Hills, with Hondo, The Searchers and McLintock plundered along the way. But this is 1971, the year of Dirty Harry, so a new brutality attaches awkwardly to the familiar goings on; and where the humour in The Searchers served to mark that film's epic passages of time, Big Jake's knockabout with motorbikes and mud fights merely, and tiresomely, prolongs the pursuit.Author: DO
Cast & crew
Director: George Sherman
Producer: Michael A Wayne
Cast: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chris Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett, Harry Carey Jr, John Ethan Wayne full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 110 mins
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