John Wayne is a Hollywood icon with a presence so dominating, he defined two different American film genres: Westerns and war films. While Hollywood’s golden age may have...
Hollywood has been an institution of American cinema for generations, producing some of the country’s greatest artists and creative minds, including actors Marlon Brando and Leonardo...
Introducing ‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’
John Wayne had finally broken free of Poverty Row B-flicks as the lead of John Ford’s classic Western “Stagecoach” when he jockeyed for the lead in...
Clint Eastwood is an actor, director, producer, father, and now animal lover? He once admitted to letting squirrels in his office. Do you think he would...
SUMMARY Clint Eastwood’s Western movies were darker and more cynical than those made during the “Golden Age” of Hollywood, which might explain why John Wayne wasn’t...
John Wayne was the undisputed High Sheriff of American Western movies for thirty years.From his breakthrough star-making 1939’s Stagecoach he rode across the silver screen all...
John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed...
Boasting incredible stunts, powerful punch-ups, dry dialogue and panoramic views of 1970s London shot by cinematographer Gerry Fisher (The Go-Between, Highlander), as well as a superb supporting cast including Judy...
She further noted that Wayne was waiting backstage at the 1973 Oscars to drag her off the stage. However, “he had to be restrained by six security men.”“I...
