Big Jake

Big Jake
The second version of the theatrical release poster.
Directed byGeorge Sherman
Screenplay by
Produced byMichael Wayne
Starring
Narrated byGeorge Fenneman
CinematographyWilliam H. Clothier
Edited byHarry Gerstad
Music byElmer Bernstein
Production
companies
Distributed byNational General Pictures
Release date
  • May 26, 1971 (1971-05-26)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$7.5 million[1][2]

Big Jake is a 1971 American Technicolor Western film starring John Wayne, Richard Boone and Maureen O'Hara. The picture was the final film for George Sherman in a directing career of more than 30 years, and Maureen O'Hara's last film with John Wayne and her last before her twenty-year retirement. The supporting cast features Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Glenn Corbett, Jim Davis, John Agar, Harry Carey Jr. and Hank Worden.

  1. ^ Big Jake, Box Office Information The Numbers. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  2. ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs", Variety, January 7, 1976, p 44