Back in 1947, John Ford and John Wayne kicked off the first of their Calvary Trilogy movies in Fort Apache, which would ... off claiming he would quit the movie. However, Wayne, who was playing ...

In the summer of 1926, Wayne’s football coach set him up with a job as an assistant prop man on the set of a movie directed by John Ford ... "Red River" (1948), "Fort Apache" (1948), "She ...

Having starred in the first outing of John ... Fort Apache, John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later. Given a budget of $1.6 million made the ...

It was after this that Ford again used him for westerns – starting with the Cavalry trilogy of Fort Apache (1948), She ... plus our certainty that a John Wayne movie is not going to end with ...