Big Jim McLain

Big Jim McLain

Big Jim McLain is a 1952 political thriller film starring John Wayne and James Arness as HUAC investigators hunting down communists in the post-war Hawaii organized labor scene. Edward Ludwig directed. This was the first film in which Wayne played a contemporary law enforcement officer, instead of an Old West lawman. Near the end of his career, in the mid-1970s, he took on two more such roles, each time playing an urban cop.

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Stars: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
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1952
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Jim McLain:
Hey we better get outta here. I'll start talking politics.

Nancy Vallon:
He just is a neuter in the personality.

Jim McLain:
You're comfy without French fries.

Poke:
I've had a belly full of this East Texas cotton-chopping jerk.

Jim McLain:
Did you ever chop cotton?

Poke:
Nah, I'm from the country club set. That chopping cotton's for white trash and n*ggers! [McLain punches Poke and a fight ensues]

Jim McLain:
Lot of wonderful things written into our constitution that were meant for honest decent citizens. I resent the fact that it can be used and abused by the very people who want to destroy it.

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