John Wayne would have been 100 on May 26, 2007 if he were still alive.  

I like most of his westerns. Movies like The Comancheros, Rio Lobo, Chism, and Hondo. I like the supporting casts as much as anything. I really liked the movie Hatari, because it showed some serious and humorous sides of John Wayne. Angel and the Badman was good too. I never liked the Green Berets much. But I do like several of his other war pictures like Bataan.

John Wayne is an American icon, and I cannot imagine television and movies without him. I do not really have a favorite movie of his. I will say I have one that is definitely a least favorite, and that makes my blood boil. It is The Quiet Man, and in it he slaps the female lead around and it makes me mad every time. No wonder we have a culture of abuse now if even in the 50's our hero could hit a woman. My thoughts. I know that it will probably not be a popular opinion. Most of the time I enjoyed John Wayne, and his quiet sarcasm, but that one just got on my nerves.

I was first introduced to John Wayne by my father, and my stepfather;) also enjoys his movies. However, it has been a long time since I have seen any and my memory is probably fuzzy on the ones I saw. However, I remember quite liking one he did when he was older called Rooster Cogburn. Playing opposite him was Katherine Hepburn. I think some reasons I liked it so much are that they both have a very strong screen presence, are American screen legends, and the characters they played were both fiesty.
In many ways people have payed tribute to, or imitated, John Wayne and the acting he did, particularly in Westerns. One of my favorites is in the movies Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights starring Jackie Chan(my husband's favorite actor). In it Jackie Chan plays a Chinese warrior who ends up in the wild west. His name is Chong Wang(I'm not sure the spelling but pronounced like John Wayne), to which the westerner he meets says that is a horrible name for a cowboy;)
Proof that John Wayne's impact lives on.

I have not seen a whole lot of his movies but my grandpa use to watch the green beret. I liked it.