Big Jake (film)
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| Big Jake | |
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| Directed by | George Sherman |
| Produced by | Michael Wayne |
| Written by | Harry Julian Fink Rita M. Fink |
| Starring | John Wayne Richard Boone Patrick Wayne Christopher Mitchum |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | William H. Clothier |
| Editing by | Harry Gerstad |
| Distributed by | National General Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1971 |
| Running time | 110 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Big Jake is a 1971 Western film, starring John Wayne and directed by George Sherman. Set in the year 1909, Wayne, plays Jacob "Big Jake" McCandles, an aging rancher estranged from his family, whose ranch is raided by a ruthless gang of outlaws, led by John Fain (Richard Boone), who murders some of the workers, wounds McCandle's eldest son (Bobby Vinton) and kidnaps his young grandson and hold the boy for ransom. While the lawmen in their new automobiles are ambushed, McCandles, with two of his other sons and an old Indian friend, takes justice into his own hands and goes to fight the bandits and rescue his grandson. While McCandles starts off estranged from his sons, and punching them around, they become united in this quest, and each make vital contributions.
John Wayne's real life son, Patrick Wayne, stars as James McCandles in the film, as does Robert Mitchum's son, Christopher Mitchum. Wayne's youngest son Ethan Wayne stars as his grandson, Little Jake, in the movie.
[edit] Trivia
- When first released, Big Jake received some discord among John Wayne fans, who decried the film's seemingly bloodthirsty attitude to violence.
- The couple who wrote the screenplay for this film, Harry Julian Fink and Rita M. Fink, also wrote the original script for Dirty Harry, which was also released in 1971. They also wrote Wayne's later film, "Cahill U.S. Marshall".
- This was the last film in which John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara appeared together.
- Some of the theme music was composed by famed composer Elmer Bernstein.
- The popular line "I thought you were dead" which many characters say to McCandles when they find out who he is, was later homaged in John Carpenter's Escape from New York.
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