John Wayne

By Patricia My guilty pleasure is John Wayne westerns. No matter how often I happen upon “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” or “Rio Grande,”I always have to watch them yet again.I love other western Cavalry films as well, although part of me cringes at the portrayel of native Americans. But there is something abo...

By nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) The Coen Brothers are about to put up their Dukes by remaking John Wayne's 1969 Oscar winner. Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen are remaking the 1969 Western classic True Grit. John Wayne won an Oscar for playing the drunken, rascally Marshall Rooster Cogburn, who reluctantly assists a you...

By nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) John Wayne on the set of John Ford's THe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Commencing this Friday, October 23, The Brooklyn Academy of Music will present a screening series to honor some of the great films released in 1962. The list is impressive and is culled from films chosen by the New York Film...

By Robert Silva Now, is this one really a Western? It certainly feels like one. Jones plays Sheriff Ed Bell, an old hat who finds himself completely out of his element when faced with a new, vicious breed of killers. Tones of The Wild Bunch abound, and as far as mythic Western landscapes go, No Country for Old M...

A self-proclaimed 'huge John Wayne fan,' the younger Roberts even had a Wayne mural painted on the back of the building. It depicts the Duke on Roberts' own ...

G) (2:00) TCM: Sun. 4 AM • True Grit '69. John Wayne. One-eyed Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn and a Texas Ranger help a girl find her father's killer. ...

Led by a John Wayne-channeling Dennis Quaid as the suitably macho-named Gen. Hawk, the GI Joes include a representative cross sample of wisecracking heroic ... Good Guys Meet Bad Guys; Cue ExplosionsNew York Times GI Joe: The Rise of CobraDVD Talk Tampabay.com -Newsday -Big Hollywood

So those guys will work out something and they knew it was not going to be the John Wayne punch, punch break a chair over somebody's head, which is much ... and more »

By Robert Silva While some pin these dark undercurrent on Stewart's combat experiences during World War II, what's more obvious is that the Western has always treated actors well who seem to be nursing an unspoken wound: Just ask John Wayne. For those looking for a place to start, here's five of the actor'...

By Matthew Klein Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week," says John Wayne in which movie? Revisit the Duke's long and storied career with our quiz. With hundreds of movies to his credit, John Wayne earned his standing as one of the most popular actors in Hollywood history....

after John Wayne - the face the of the American Western - rode off into the sunset for the last time, his grandson, Brendan Wayne, dusts off his grandfather's cowboy hat for a role in "Angel and the Badman," a remake of 'The Duke's' 1947 classic, ...

By Cory Abbey Is it the sparkly spurs or the chance to practice a Southern drawl? Even thoroughly modern actors like Christian Bale and Tobey Maguire can't help heading out West for a taste of the action. Everyone, it's time to let go. The days of John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Glenn Ford patrolling the frontie...

 PA In a dizzying display the actors skewer John Wayne, the '60s sitcom "the Patty Duke Show," "The Godfather" and Elton John, among others. Even former president George Bush takes a shot. (Hint: He's a stand-in for a long-eared character in "Midsummer ...

and the Duke growls, “I'm lookin' at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.” El Dorado is basically your generic John Wayne Western – but it boasts a top-notch cast, all of whom seemed to be having a thoroughly marvelous time – and there are many much, ...

 WA Would such a phrase ever escape the lips of John Wayne? What kind of President expects the American people to take such nonsense seriously? That one has been worth a lot of good laughs in every barber shop in the country! So what are we missing from ...

 UK John Ford's masterful western starring James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin gets the two-disc treatment from Paramount in a release reviewed here by clydefro. (This is the second review for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on the site. ...

By Robert Silva John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clint Eastwood are synonymous with six-shooters and spurs, but the Western also lured more surprising faces onto the frontier. While John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clint Eastwood are virtually synonymous with six-shooters and spurs, the Western also lured s...

By nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) Yet another occasion in which we use a reader's letter to give a cheap plug to a Cinema Retro book. In case you are not aware, TCM is broadcasting a letterboxed 203 minute version of The Alamo on March 17 @ 2:15pm. I have to assume that is the directors cut that was released on laser disc some years...

By Paul MacInnes Many of the best Hollywood stories, like John Wayne chasing Dennis Hopper around the Paramount lot with a loaded revolver, the nocturnal habits of Richard Gere's pet gerbil, or Frank Sinatra securing a part in From Here to Eternity, have an air of the apocryphal about them.

By Philip French Alternative career She took a business course at 16, had a typing speed of 90 words a minute and helped type the screenplay of The Quiet Man. Essential DVDs How Green Was My Valley, The Black Swan, Sitting Pretty, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles.

William McIntosh, the "White Warrior" of the Creek nation, had risen to the leadership of the Creeks in spite of being of mixed Creek and Scottish blood. That Scottish ancestry offered no shame to a warrior people: he was of the blood of John Mohr McIntosh (the Gaelic byname meaning, "the Gr...

By Susan Brison Don't be fooled: we've seen before that the first women to be let into bastions of male power can serve to reinforce existing gender norms and make things even harder for those who'd follow. Watching John McCain and Sarah Palin on the campaign trail, I'm reminded of Katherine Hepburn sayin...

Rating: 2 Stars Starring: Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso Review: Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee's first war epic. And it's not like I don't have objections. Miracle at St. Anna is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many characters and sub...

We think, John Wayne is that guy. That's Mr. America, whether he was kicking Japanese butt or Nazi butt or in one of John Ford's Westerns, ... Spike Lee is doing the right thing National Post Review: 'Miracle at St. Anna' Los Angeles Times San Jose Mercury News - USA Today

By Arianna Huffington Back in February 2007, I wrote about the role casting would play in the presidential race, and the American public's readiness to replace the John Wayne take-no-crap-cowboy model of leadership with a Gregory Peck-does-Atticus Finch archetype.

By Mark Hinson(noreply@blogger.com) LET'S GO BLOG WILD: I came along just in time to witness the death of The Western in the '70s. John Wayne died after making "The Shootist" and, when I was a kid, it was hard to know who to cheer for in morally murky oaters such "High Plains Drifter" and "McCabe and Mrs. Miller."

By Michael Rowin America prides itself on being a land of hardworking go-getters, ready to make good on the promise of that coveted Dream with a little fortitude, gumption, and inventive spirit. Yet at the movies, it's often the type B losers who win our hearts: John Wayne may be what we want to be, but Benjam...

By travelagentbusiness1909 I cannot think of another actor I would pay to see act than John Wayne, the performance is well worth the price of a ticket. John Wayne performance in Hondo (Full Screen) is no exception, the way John Wayne and Geraldine Page work ...

The John Wayne Centennial reminded people of better movies that involved storyline, character development and impressive visuals. One free screening of "The Searchers" easily outclassed "Shrek the Third," "Spider-Man 3" and "Pirates of ...

New DVD releases include 'Pirates of the Caribbean'  PA - John Ford is best-remembered as the man behind such John Wayne classics as "The Searchers," "The Quiet Man" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," yet this ...

JOHN FORD AT FOX  NY - John Wayne, who would often work with Ford, makes his first appearance as a featured extra during a race scene in "Hangman's House," while a young Spencer ...

5 reasons we love the Western movie  TX - Oct 7, 2007 The point is brought home in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, one of many fine Westerns John Ford made with John Wayne. A tenderfoot lawyer (James Stewart) ...

By Ian Woolstencroft Wayne looks like he’s having a good time and with much of the film shot on location in Hawaii, it’s no wonder. From an acting point of view he seems uninterested but this isn’t a film about character it about making a political statement. Big Jim McLain makes Wayne’s The Alamo and The Green Bere...

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By Ian Woolstencroft The misjudged True Grit sequel, Rooster Cogburn (1975) followed before Wayne’s final film, The Shootist (1976). Let’s take a closer look at that film and the other high points of the decade. Big Jake (1971) The Cowboys (1972) The Shootist (1976)

By Alex Remington In earlier days, moviegoers got to see Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, and Toshiro Mifune. We get Chow Yun-Fat. Trust me, we're not getting the short end of the stick. In earlier days, moviegoers got to see Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, and Toshiro Mifune. We get Chow Yun-Fat. Trust me, we're not ge...

By Ian Woolstencroft The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) The ‘60s was Wayne’s decade for making fun films, even when not out-and-out comedies like McLintock! his westerns, with the exception of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, had a easy going sense of fun that is hard not to like. True Grit (1969)

By Ian Woolstencroft John Wayne capitalised on the success of Stagecoach in the '40s, making a string of formulaic films that, while unexceptional, cemented him as a box office draw. Most featured Wayne as one corner of a love triangle, vying with the likes of Walter Pidgeon, Ray Milland, and Randolph Scott (f...

By Ian Woolstencroft The first film in John Ford’s famous cavalry trilogy saw Wayne in a secondary role with Henry Fonda playing Lt. Col. Owen Thursday, the film's central character. The story was inspired by the massacre at the Little Big Horn with Thursday based on George Armstrong Custer.

By y2karl Raoul] Walsh's advice to Wayne was to play his part "with a cool hand like you'd do on a football field." He also told him to "speak softly but with authority, and look whoever you're talking to right in the eye." Indeed, actors who worked with Wayne always marveled at his ability to listen and l...

By Ian Woolstencroft While John Wayne’s film career started in the 1920s it wasn’t until the 1930s that he got his first shot at stardom. This series of articles will take a wander through five decades of Wayne movies from the '30s to the '70s, picking out classics and personal favourites along the way.After spen...

By Ian Woolstencroft It was another nine years before Duke got another chance to shine. Those years were filled with an endless list of forgettable B westerns and bit parts. By the time Stagecoach came around in 1939 Wayne was almost a seasoned pro. Stagecoach (1939)

By vronsky Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of film history and criticism has to know that The Searchers is the most influential film of all time. From the first google hit for "the searchers + influential." Andrew Sarris on Ford and Wayne But over the past three decades, it has gained the respect of...

By Ian Woolstencroft May 26 marks the 100th anniversary of John Wayne’s birth. I’ve already written about two other centenaries this month, Katherine Hepburn and Laurence Oliver, and I could do a similar piece on Wayne. I could but I’m not going to, because for me Wayne is a more personal subject and somehow a bri...

By Chris Beaumont She Wore a Yellow Ribbon The Searchers The Green Berets The Wings of Eagles Operation Pacific Stagecoach The John Wayne Western Collection: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, True Grit, Hindo, McLintock!, Big Jake, The Shootist, Rio Lobo, The Sons of Katie Elder, El Dorado)

By El Bicho This year we celebrate one hundred years of John Wayne, his life and his work. He is one of cinema’s greatest heroes and an American icon. In True Grit we get to see him shine in the role that won him an Oscar for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn.

The daughter-in-law of iconic Hollywood actor John Wayne has been speaking about his legacy.

By Ian Woolstencroft Blending elements of True Grit and The African Queen must have seemed like a good idea at the time but it inevitably draws comparisons with those superior films. Wayne was almost always at his best with a strong director behind the camera - John Ford and Howard Hawks are, between them, respo...

By Ian Woolstencroft This follow-up to True Grit sees Wayne reprising his Oscar-winning role as Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn six years after that western classic. The pairing of John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn should have been a recipe for cinema gold, but thanks to a less than original story and some o...