As one of the final motion pictures made by the Duke in the early 1970s, Big Jake is a great film. While many may emphasize ...
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 ... Read More ...
The box-office failure of John Wayne's The Alamo draws some interesting parallels to Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American ...
Dan Bubb, a former airline pilot and a historian and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, spoke with Newsweek about John Wayne ... the brakes and apply full power.
Later, revisionist Westerns and Italian-produced ... standoff in a sprawling cemetery. John Ford and John Wayne’s masterpiece is a full-blooded Western, rich with sumptuous scenery ...
Have you ever watched a John Wayne movie and either wished that it did more to critique ... There had always been progressive westerns that deconstructed the racism and tyranny that defined the genre, ...