rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Bruce Dern struggled to find acting jobs after co-starring opposite John Wayne in The Cowboys, which celebrates its 52nd anniversary this week. His …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Having starred in the first outing of John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy in 1948’s Fort Apache, John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags This week marks the 78th anniversary of the release of 1945’s They Were Expendable, a film set during the Battle of the Philippines …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags John Wayne was well known for his tough and gristly persona on and off-screen, not holding back on what he really thought of …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-winning Roman epic was incredibly controversial upon its release in 1960. Kirk Douglas allowed blacklisted communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, one of …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Back in 1959, critics were already asking if John Wayne was too old to be playing gunslinger leads. Rio Bravo was released that …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Back in 1968, John Wayne starred in Hellfighters, an early disaster movie based on the life of Red Adair, about a group of …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags John Wayne’s final movie The Shootist (which is on ITV4 today) hit cinemas in 1976, just three years before he died. For the …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Back in 1964, John Wayne had a cancerous lung and a few ribs removed, leaving him stricken with health problems for the rest …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags By the 1970s, John Wayne was coming towards the end of his career as a Hollywood star. In 1973, aged 65-years-old, he had …