Wayne starred as the lead character, Ethan Edwards, in The Searchers. After the end of the Civil War, he returns back to Texas to see his family. However, he’s thrown into another kind of war ...

After True Grit, John Wayne was offered another big-time Western, but he turned it down and missed out on the chance for a ...

The Comancheros, starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin, has largely been overlooked despite receiving critical acclaim upon its ...

Back in 1964, John Wayne ... True Grit, the Western legend's final film, The Shootist, hit cinemas in 1976, just three years before he died. It’s commonly believed that Wayne was living with ...

Filmed entirely in breathtaking Sierra Nevada locations and also memorable for the classic Western ... 1948) Epic Western from a master filmmaker that gave John Wayne the type of part in which ...

Silver Screen Collection/Getty; Bettmann/Getty Mel Brooks once tried to cast the legendary Western star John Wayne in one of his classic comedies. At a recent Q&A following a 50th anniversary ...

John Wayne is a titan of the Hollywood Golden Age, best known for some of the most iconic Westerns ever made ... s included are John Ford-directed classics Stagecoach, Fort Apache, The Searchers ...

Sometimes it's seen as a reflexively nostalgic and conservative genre, with reactionary John Wayne serving as its ... of the director's other western classics. Henry Fonda plays Wyatt Earp in ...

For generations of movie lovers, John Wayne was the epitome of cinematic ... Many of those were, of course, Westerns, since Wayne was one of Hollywood's best-known silver-screen cowboys.