Here’s why John Wayne made his 1959 Western Rio Bravo as a response to High Noon. From his screen breakthrough with 1939’s Stagecoach to his final role as a terminally-ill gunfighter...
Star Wars: A New Hope technically features the final role for John Wayne – even if it’s hard to spot. The release of both Jaws and the original Star Wars in...
In the 1952 Oscar-winning classic, considered by director John Ford to be his sexiest movie, John Wayne’s retired boxer Sean Thornton makies a pilgrimage to his...
Here are John Wayne’s Favorite Films of his own – which just happen to include two movies he starred in. Wayne had to work his way up to...
Actor John Wayne once guest starred on The Lucy Show in a comedic bit alongside Lucille Ball that still tickles funny bones around the world. Many of his critics thought that he...
The 20-year-long persistence of the superhero genre in contemporary blockbuster cinema has cause many pundits to draw a genre parallel between comic book movies and Westerns....
An effort by Orange County supervisors to come up with new logos for John Wayne Airport has seemingly reignited the long simmering debate over Wayne, his views on...
Many John Wayne fans continue to love and support Rio Grande, even though its reception was a bit lukewarm. Nevertheless, the actor once revealed that it actually held an...
Throughout his career, which saw him star in more than 170 films and TV productions, the man nicknamed Duke would achieve huge success, but none more...
Actor John Wayne once had to endure dysentery over the course of filming The Big Trail. The movie was a box office bomb, but it went down in history for...
