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Big Jake

Poster for the movie "Big Jake"
Poster for the movie "Big Jake"

Big Jake (1971)

PG-13 110 min - Action, Western - 26 May 1971
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John Wayne is Jacob McCandles, a rough-and-tumble rancher who's estranged from his wife (Maureen O'Hara). But when a cutthroat gang led by Richard Boone kidnaps his grandson, Big Jake gets the call to rescue him. Patrick Wayne (John Wayne's real-life son) and Chris Mitchum (Robert Mitchum's son) play Jake's grown boys, who accompany him on the long trek that can end only one way...

Director:  George Sherman, John Wayne
Writers:  Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink
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