Big Jake (film)

• John Wayne: Jacob McCandles
• Richard Boone: John Fain
• Patrick Wayne: James McCandles
• Christopher Mitchum: Michael McCandles
• Bruce Cabot: Sam Sharpnose
• Bobby Vinton: Jeff McCandles
• Glenn Corbett: O'Brien, aka Breed
• John Doucette: Texas Ranger Buck Duggan
• Jim Davis: leader of the lynch mob
• John Agar: Bert Ryan
• Harry Carey Jr.: Pop Dawson
• Gregg Palmer: John Goodfellow
• Virginia Capers: Delilah
• Bill Walker: Moses Brown
• John McLiam: Army officer
• Bernard Fox: Scottish Shepherd
• Jim Burk: Trooper
• Dean Smith: James William 'Kid ' Duffy
• Ethan Wayne: Little Jake McCandles
• Hank Worden Hank
• Tom Hennesy: Mr. Sweet
• Robert Warner: Will Fain
• Jeff Wingfield: Billy Devries
• Jerry Gatlin: Stubby
• Everett Creach: Walt Devries
• Maureen O'Hara: Martha McCandles

Big Jake is a 1971 Western incurred by George Sherman with John Wayne in the title role.

Action

The film is set in 1909, Wayne represents the aging rancher Jacob "Big Jake" is McCandles who has been estranged from his family.; he has not seen them for 10 years.

Martha McCandles Ranch is attacked by a gang of robbers who murder some of the farm workers, wounding one of their sons and kidnap McCandles grandson. They demand a ransom of one million U.S. dollars. McCandles versa at the request of his wife to his ranch and family back, pursues the gang and exercises with the help of two of his sons and an Indian friend vigilantism and rescues his grandson.

In addition to typical for a John Wayne Western action sequences, the film shows in particular the rapprochement between the lived apart family members and especially in the first third of the film the contrast between the ausgeklungenen 19th century and the modern era.

Special

Big Jake's son James and his grandson are played by John Wayne's sons Patrick and Ethan Wayne. Big Jake's son, Michael, played by Robert Mitchum 's son Christopher. Big Jake is not only the last joint film by John Wayne and Bruce Cabot, whose common films dating back to 1947 ( The Black Rider ( 1947) ), but also the last of the common films with John Wayne highly esteemed co-star Maureen O'Hara. Both have in common, inter alia, also in Rio Grande (film), The Winner (1952) and MacLintock embodies couples.

Reviews

• Joe Hembus called Big Jake an " unusually bloody John Wayne movie." Phil Hardy stated, the film lacks the economy of Sherman's previous films. The result was " a mediocre movie, a bunch of fights, but without meaning and purpose. "

• Lexicon of international film: Wide, carefully staged Western with some parodic features and subliminal affirmation of vigilante justice.