(I'm just starting to do the western thing, and I cut my Wayne teeth last year with those Lone Star serials that are so, so bad, and then there was the whole High Noon affair and the resultant Rio Bravo-- which is as silly as any JW/Gabby Hayes Lone Star feature)

I can recommend him in both The Long Voyage Home (1940) and True Grit (1969), although those are not in any other way similar films.

I just saw High Noon (1952) a few nights ago. It was terrific.