There's only one John Wayne, but that only came about because the actor was so inspired by one of his silver screen heroes.

While filmmaking is often thought of as a director’s medium, the 1970s saw the emergence of many of the greatest actors and ...

The Wild West often serves as the foundation of American mythology. It’s quite understandable that one expects the Westerns ...

Though he might be known for his Western heroics, John Wayne's best performance is actually in The Quiet Man, a movie outside ...

Wayne's body of work is the counternarrative. Not reactionary, foundational. Discipline, accountability, the capacity to act ...

Since the dawn of Western films, one of the most prominent themes across many stories has been revenge. A brilliant device that becomes the driving force of the narrative, revenge stories allow the ...

Few actors loom as large as John Wayne. Like many men of his day, his cooking prowess was deftly expressed within the ...