John Wayne's co-star on Fort Apache, a film released 76 years ago, said he'd 'go to hell and back' for Duke after the Hollywood legend helped him through an on-set feud involving Shirley Temple.

Having starred in the first outing of John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy in 1948’s Fort Apache, John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later. Given ...