Actor James Caan once talked about what it was like working with legendary actor John Wayne on El Dorado. The then-young actor didn’t initially get along with the Western star....
Hondo actor John Wayne had plenty of actors over the career he enjoyed working with. However, there were others that brought out a whole other side of him. Wayne detested his Hondo co-star,...
The Western genre was defined at the dawn of cinema by legendary filmmakers like John Ford, Henry King, and Sergio Leone, and essential films including The Great Train Robbery, Stagecoach, and The Good, the Bad...
Let’s start with the obvious: Unforgiven is a masterpiece. Clint Eastwood’s gritty deconstruction of the Western genre easily stands as one of the best of its kind. From...
From his Hollywood debut in 1926 to his tragic death in 1979, John Wayne amassed nearly 200 acting credits, becoming a symbol of Americana and a true icon...
John Wayne wasn’t a fan of Clint Eastwood. In fact, the legendary cowboy even once sent his younger successor an angry letter over a movie. That movie in...
The Cowboys earned high praise for the adventure that starred John Wayne and Bruce Dern. However, the third act pivoted into a more violent direction than most of the legendary Western...
John Wayne made three Westerns with director Howard Hawks about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws. In between 1959’s Rio Bravo and 1970’s Rio Lobo,...
Actor Clint Eastwood is one of Hollywood’s most accomplished actors who’s only added to his legacy by succeeding as a filmmaker. But when starting out, he was far...
One of the key scenes in Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven was inspired by John Wayne’s final movie, The Shootist. Eastwood made his name on the big screen with Westerns like...
