Bruce Dern struggled to find acting jobs after co-starring opposite John Wayne in The Cowboys. His troubles began even before filming on the 1972 Western began. Duke had just given an incredibly ...
John Wayne turned towards playing noir-style, hard-boiled characters like this inspiration for an animated anti-hero.
The director forced into working with John Wayne was Mark Rydell, who wound up being charmed by Wayne when he signed up for ...
The Unique Role of John Wayne in 'Rio Bravo' When John Wayne returned to the Western genre with 'Rio Bravo', he was far from the one-dimensional hero audiences had grown accustomed to. At the age of ...