While many may emphasize the film's particularly violent tone (in fact, this author has before), one of the things that makes this Western particularly unique is that it stars John Wayne opposite ...

Back in September 1964, John Wayne was set to re-team with Rio Bravo director Howard Hawks and co-star Dean Martin in The Sons of Katie Elder. The Western saw four brothers, with Duke playing the ...

The box-office failure of John Wayne's The Alamo draws some interesting parallels to Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1. John Wayne fronted over 80 Westerns during his 50 year ...

John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on my classic Westerns, but the one that made Duke a star was 1939’s Stagecoach. The 1880-set story followed a group of strangers riding through dangerous ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...