1940's Movie List
Dark Command (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: April 1940
Running Time: 92 minutes
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: John Wayne, Claire trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George
"Gabby" Hayes, Porter Hall, Margorie Main
Three Faces West (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: June 1940
Running Time: 79 minutes
Director: Bernard Vorchaus
Cast: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters,
Helen MacKellar, Roland Varno
The Long Voyage Home (United Artists)
Release Date: October 1940
Running Time: 105 minutes
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald,
Wilfred Lawson, Mildred Natwick, John Qualen
Seven Sinners (Universal Pictures)
Release Date: November 1940
Running Time: 81 minutes
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Brodrick Crawford, Mischa Auer,
Albert Decker, Billy Gilbert, Anna Lee
A Man Betrayed (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: March 1941
Running Time: 83 minutes
Director: John H. Auer
Cast: John Wayne, Francis Lee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford, Ward
Bond, Harold Huber, Alexander Granach
Lady From Louisiana (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: April 1941
Running Time: 84 minutes
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: John Wayne, Ona Munson, Ray Middleton, Henry Stephenson, Helen
Westley, Jack Pennick, Dorthy Dandridge
The Shepard Of The Hills(Paramount Pictures)
Release Date: June 1941
Running Time: 97 minutes
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James
Barton, Samual Hinds, Marjorie Main, Ward Bond
Lady For A Night (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: December 1941
Running Time: 87 minutes
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast: John Wayne, Joan Blondell, Ray Middleton, Phillip Merivale,
Blanche Yurba, Edith Barrett, Leonid Kinskey
Reap The Wild Wind (Paramount Pictures)
Release Date: March 1942
Running Time: 124 minutes
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: John Wayne, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey,
Robert Preston, Susan Hayward
The Spoilers (Universal Pictures)
Release Date: April 1942
Running Time: 84 minutes
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolf Scott, Margaret Lindsay,
Harry Carey, Richard Barthelmess
In Old California (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: June 1942
Running Time: 88 minutes
Director: William McGann
Cast: John Wayne, Binnie Brnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish, Patsy
Kelly, Edgar Kennedy, Dick Purcell
Flying Tigers(Republic Pictures)
Release Date: September 1942
Running Time: 101 minutes
Director: David Miller
Cast: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones,
Mae Clarke, Addison Richards
Reunion In France (MGM)
Release Date: December 1942
Running Time: 104 minutes
Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: John Wayne, Joan Crawford, Phillip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert
Bassermann, John Carradine, Ann Ayars
Pittsburgh (Universal Pictures)
Release Date: December 1942
Running Time: 98 minutes
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolf Scott, Frank Craven,
Louise Allbritton, Thomas Gomez
Lady Takes A Chance (RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: August 1943
Running Time: 86 minutes
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: John Wayne, Jean Arthur, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers,
Mary Field, Don Costello, John Philliber
War Of The Wildcats (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: October 1943
Running Time: 102 minutes
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby"
Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans
The Fighting Seabees (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: January 1944
Running Time: 100 minutes
Director: Howard Lydecker and Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley,
Addison Richards, Leonid Kinskey
Tall In The Saddle (RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: September 1944
Running Time: 87 minutes
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George "Gabby" Hayes,
Audrey Long, Elisabeth Risdon, Don Douglas
Flame Of The Barbary Coast (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: April 1945
Running Time: 91 minutes
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley,
Virginia Gray, Russell Hicks, Jack Norton
Back To Bataan (RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: May 1945
Running Time: 97 minutes
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli,
Leonard Strong, Richard Loo, Phillip Ahn
Dakota (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: November 1945
Running Time: 82 minutes
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Vera Hruba Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond,
Ona Munson, Hugo Hass, Mike Mazurki
They Were Expendable (MGM)
Release Date: November 1945
Running Time: 136 minutes
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward
Bond, Marshall Thompson, Cameron Mitchell
Without Reservations (RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: April 1946
Running Time: 107 minutes
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: John Wayne, Claudette Colbert, Don DeFore, Ann Triola, Phil
Brown, Frank Puglia, Donna Drake
Angel And The Badman (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: February 1947
Running Time: 100 minutes
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene
Rich, Lee Dixon, Tom Powers, John Halloran
Tycoon (RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: December 1947
Running Time: 126 minutes
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson,
James Gleason, Anthony Quinn
Fort Apache (RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: March 1948
Running Time: 128 minutes
Director: John Ford and Merian C. Cooper
Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz,
Ward Bond, Irene Rich, John Agar
Red River (United Artists)
Release Date: July 1948
Running Time: 125 minutes
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Cliff, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru,
Harry Carey Sr, John Ireland, Colleen Gray
Three Godfathers (MGM)
Release Date: December 1948
Running Time: 106 minutes
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr, Ward Bond, Mae
Marsh, Mildred Natwick, Jane Darwell
Wake Of The Red Witch (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: December 1948
Running Time: 106 minutes
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara, Luther Adler,
Eduard Franz, Grant Withers, Henry Daniell
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon(RKO Radio Pictures)
Release Date: July 1949
Running Time: 104 minutes
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey
Jr, Victor MacLaglen, Mildred Natwick
The Fighting Kentuckian (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: September 1949
Running Time: 100 minutes
Director: George Waggner
Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie
Windsor, John Howard, Hugo Haas, Grant Withers
Sands Of Iwo Jima (Republic Pictures)
Release Date: December 1949
Running Time: 109 minutes
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell,
James Brown, Richard Webb