John Wayne has starred in 80 Westerns, becoming a towering Western cinema figure synonymous with rugged cowboys, lawmen, and ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

John Wayne remains an American icon thanks to his roles in popular Westerns and war movies, but what do we really know about ...

The partnership between John Wayne and Ward Bond was more than just a professional collaboration, it was a friendship.

He had 179 acting credits, with many landing in the world of westerns, but this is the movie John Wayne called his worst in ...

Red River, a fictional tale of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, followed a growing feud between Duke’s Texas rancher Thomas and his adopted adult son Matt, played by Montgomery Clift in ...

The rise of Clint Eastwood gave John Wayne anxiety because he felt threatened by his stardom and he believed his revisionist ...

Violence and the Western genre often go hand-in-hand, but not every horse opera is an excessive mess of blood, guts, and gore. In general, John Wayne pictures are pretty lax when it comes to violence.

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.