As John Wayne usually played heroes, he needed an excellent villain to fight, and the best appeared in his movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John Wayne movies are almost a genre of their own ...

Those two men are John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Throughout their heralded careers, the two men never worked together, even though they once had the opportunity to do so. Instead, politics ...

In 1976, 69-year-old John Wayne offered his farewell to Hollywood and the Western genre withThe Shootist, which tells the tale of an aging gunfighter dying of cancer in Nevada at the turn of the ...

Although John Wayne turned down Mel Brooks’ iconic Western spoof Blazing Saddles, this ironically saved the iconic parody movie. John Wayne’s many Western movies might contain moments of ...

Although Stanley Kubrick wrote one Dr. Strangeloverole with John Wayne in mind, that did not stop the famous star from turning the part down. John Wayne’s Westerns remain his most famous movies ...

But one of America’s most enduring icons of toughness—John Wayne—remained stateside. Over the years, Wayne’s decision not to fight became a source of controversy. Though he was seen on ...

John Wayne, who starred in over 170 films and worked with the most renowned directors of his time, is best known for playing a variety of Hollywood heroes, despite regretting missing out on ...

The acting collaboration between John Wayne and Vera Miles spanned five movies released between 1955 and 1968, but two ...

He's an all-American hero archetype despite this, and apparently, it's at least partially because Russell was channeling ...

This is what the biggest star of this period, John Wayne, did when he launched his Batjac Productions in 1952 with the godawful "Big Jim McLain," a political thriller that valorized House Un ...

It’s safe to say that the Western genre would not have developed into one of the most popular categories of film if it weren't for the extraordinary career of John Wayne. While it was not the ...