JOHN WAYNE was 'slightly infirm' on The Train Robbers but tenaciously pushed through filming despite two fractured ribs, balance issues and a daily lie down, according to co-star Rod Taylor. Ann ...

By the 1970s, John Wayne was coming towards the end of his career as a Hollywood star. In 1973, aged 65-years-old, he had been living with one lung for the best part of 10 years and was suffering ...

John Wayne and Ann-Margret only worked together on one film. The two actors appeared together in the 1973 Western The Train Robbers, about a widow (Ann-Margret) who hires a man (Wayne) to find a ...

The American Freedom Train, perhaps more than anything else, tied the national and local bicentennial celebrations together. John Warner, who headed up the congressionally created American ...

Ross Rowland, who spearheaded the American Freedom Train effort as a young man, recently told me how Wayne came to have the idea. Rowland had run away from home in the 1950s and fortuitously ended ...

Louis L'Amour's Hondo novelization helped launch his career as a writer and serves as a more powerful depiction than even the John Wayne film.

John Wayne made a rare TV appearance in a Wagon Train episode directed by John Ford.; Ford used footage from Wagon Master in the episode, later reprising the scene in How the West Was Won.; Wagon ...

A cowboy hat that Wayne wore in THREE westerns - "Big Jake," "The Cowboys" and "The Train Robbers" - pulled in $119,500. The Golden Globe trophy he won for "True Grit" went for $143,400. John ...

Many Americans of Generation X and older will recall the red, white, and blue American Freedom Train that was a centerpiece of America’s glorious Bicentennial celebration. But few know that ...