Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor...
In The Dark Command John Wayne is marshal of a Kansas town besieged by a pro-Confederacy gang led by Walter Pidgeon. Claire Trevor is the love...
The Duke directs (with the uncredited help of his friend and mentor John Ford) flag-waving spectacular The Alamo about the courageous struggle by 182 American heroes...
Hollywood’s take on the big-top life as the Duke shepherds his three-ring extravaganza through a European tour while searching for the aerialist he loved and lost–the...
A snooty Boston girl arrives on a tiny South Pacific isle in search of her missing father and encounters two old salty dogs. The mismatched trio...
John Ford returned from making wartime documentaries when he was convinced that this wouldn’t be just another war movie. It isn’t. It is an inspiring, bleak...
John Wayne plays US Marshal J. D. Cahill, so wrapped up in work he neglects his motherless sons Billy (Clay O’Brien) and Danny (Gary Grimes). To...
Red River is a great film from a great filmmaker. Director Howard Hawks was responsible for some of the best comedies (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl...
Such was the scope of epic How The West Was Won that three veteran directors were hired to direct the various segments that went into telling...
In January 1968, the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive, and in May the Paris Peace Talks began, while at the same time in America, the...
Henry Hathaway’s Boys Own adventure Legend Of The Lost is given extra curiosity value by Ben Hecht’s philosophical script. John Wayne leads Rossano Brazzi and Sophia...
John Wayne, nearing the end of his fifth decade and having beaten his first bout with cancer, continued to make at least a film a year...
Director Henry Hathaway and John Wayne seem to have a rollicking good time winking at their rough-and-tough western images with uproarious comedy North To Alaska. Having...
A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake shakes up...
Stagecoach is the greatest Western entry in Hollywood’s annus mirabilis of 1939, and Ford’s prototype for the Western genre he dignified. This also marked John Wayne’s...