John Wayne soon became synonymous with the western genre, closely working with John Ford on pictures such as The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance to create a legacy like no other. It is ...

Red River, Rio Bravo ... and Martin Scorsese used Wayne and John Ford’s The Searchers as the impetus to launch two of the most successful and storied directorial careers in cinema history, then that ...

While John Wayne had been open about his frustration with having to play the same kinds of characters, his moral compass led him to turn down a different role in a classic war movie. John Wayne ...

New movies in theaters - Companion, Dog Man and more Several new movies are coming to theaters this weekend, including Companion, Dog Man, and one of the nominees for the Best Picture Oscar ...

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. Dunson leads a cattle ...

As a result, Wayne's sudden rise to fame quickly plummeted. Any hopes that the Duke had of becoming a sure-fire movie star after such a big production — which John Ford was rumored to have ...

John Wayne’s most iconic collaborations were with director John Ford, most famously in their epic Westerns. The filmmaker was notorious for verbally attacking his actors on set to get a better ...