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James Edward Grant has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s.
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The Alamo
1960 · Movie · Writer
Top 28%Prime Video · Included

McLintock!
1963 · Movie · Writer
Top 53%Prime Video · Included

Hondo
1953 · Movie · Writer
Top 57%Prime Video · Included

Donovan's Reef
1963 · Movie · Writer
Top 60%Prime Video · Included

Angel and the Badman
1947 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 62%Prime Video · Included

Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 · Movie · Writer
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The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Dir. John Wayne · With John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin

Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
Dir. John Farrow · With John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
Dir. John Ford · With John Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
Dir. James Edward Grant · With John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Dir. Allan Dwan · With John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara