After John Wayne’s most critically successful movies made him a star ... a 61-year-old Wayne as Colonel Mike Kirby, which was its first mistake. In a war where the average combat soldier ...

Actor John Wayne and director John Ford are made for one of the most iconic duos of American Western cinema, but their best collaboration was their first movie, Stagecoach. Released in 1939 and ...

According to the Duke, the best Western ever made is actually the John Ford film ... Wayne collaboration that remains so often at the forefront of the genre. In fact, it was one of the very first ...

Having starred in the first ... 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. The movie ...