Tom Doniphon is the archetypal Ford hero, the John Wayne of all Ford's westerns. A man of action and few words (note his instinctive hatred of the rhetoric in the Convention speeches), Doniphon is ...
The Searchers was the adaptation of the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, which later defined Wayne's career, though it failed to ...
Beyond their prowess as groundbreaking creative artists and visionaries of the Old West, John Ford and Clint Eastwood ... movies like The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were ...
One 1956 classic didn't get nominated in any category at the Academy Awards, going down as one of the greatest anomalies in Oscars history.