A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins. A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a ...

John Wayne soon became synonymous with the western genre, closely working with John Ford on pictures such as The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance to create a legacy like no other. It is ...

Chisum was John Wayne's first movie of the 1970s, the Western legend's final decade. Having had a cancerous lung removed a few years earlier, Duke had to rely on an oxygen mask and hide his ...

Film critic Roger Ebert was not predisposed to love all John Wayne movies. He only started reviewing films in the mid-60s, long after the Duke became a star. He was also a champion of a brand new ...

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's ...

Western legends John Wayne and Roy Rogers only made one movie together with a 1940 Civil War classic called Dark Command. Wayne is one of the most famous Western stars of the 20th century and is ...

John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later. The movie cost $1.6 million, making it one of the most expensive Westerns at that point in ...

As a result, Wayne's sudden rise to fame quickly plummeted. Any hopes that the Duke had of becoming a sure-fire movie star after such a big production — which John Ford was rumored to have ...

This tribute to John Wayne features some of the greatest action scenes from various films ...