John Wayne is a Hollywood icon with a presence so dominating, he defined two different American film genres: Westerns and war films. While Hollywood's golden age may have produced better actors, few ...

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and based on the historical Lincoln County War from Andrew J. Fenady’s short story Chisum and the Lincoln County War, the movie is a slight departure for Wayne, whose ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John Wayne. Getting his start in B-movies in the 1930s, Wayne ...

Wayne’s third favourite was The Quiet Man, John Ford’s romantic drama set in rural Ireland. Released in 1952, the film ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

When you think of westerns, there are a few famous faces that are synonymous with the genre, two of the most notable being Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. Eastwood’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a ...