According to the Duke, the best Western ever made is actually the John Ford film The Searchers, the 1956 picture that starred Wayne as Ethan Edwards. Westerns were never the same after this flick ...
Born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26th, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa, John Wayne transcended the silver screen to become an enduring symbol of rugged individualism, frontier spirit, and American ...
John Wayne was quickly type-cast as an all-American hero in a wide variety of pictures. Although Wayne himself didn’t seem to have any qualms about this type-casting, and his range as an actor was ...
This week marks the 79th anniversary of the release of 1945’s They Were Expendable, a film set during the Battle of the Philippines which took place just a couple of years prior. The film’s ...
Having starred in the first outing of John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy in 1948’s Fort Apache, John Wayne returned to lead ... of Frederic Remington, won the Best Cinematography Oscar for the ...