The Western genre is full of great movies, even without the works of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. When considering which films deserve to be counted as the...
The film was one of many roles that Wayne undertook in which he played a military man, though the star himself would snub going to take...
In the end, George Peppard was cast as Paul even though director Blake Edwards didn’t want him, being overruled by producers. Quoted in Sam Wasson’s Fifth...
In the lead up to his death, Wayne was admitted to hospital to have an intestinal obstruction removed, Variety Magazine reported. And it was during this...
Cancer Research UK stated: “Some types of cancer can come back many years after they were first diagnosed.”The charity continued: “It can be very difficult to...
“Duke felt that he’d disappointed the two people he cared for most: Josephine Saenz, the girl he loved, and John Ford, the man he admired above...
In total, Wayne — whose real name was Marion Robert Morrison — starred in 179 film and television productions. In the legend’s real life, the actor...
The conservative patriot Wayne hired screenwriter James Edward Grant to write a draft of The Alamo, which is on ITV4 today. But as it neared completion,...
”John Wayne wanted to go out there and physically yank her off the stage. It took six men to hold him back.”A 1994 New Yorker piece...
North by Northwest hits TV screens today at 1:45pm on BBC Two. The iconic spy movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock has gone down in history as the “original”...
