John Wayne

 AZ - being John Ford's The Searchers, released in 1956 and starring John Wayne. That and other movies, including Stagecoach (1939), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ...

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Richard Widmark dies at age 93…silver screen, movie star and actor… - fromtheleftsideofmybrain

Cinema Retro has been saying it for years, and now Radar magazine agrees: the era of the true movie star is dead. A movie star has generally been review-proof. Audiences showed their loyalty by lining up for each of their new films, which is how stars like Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie...

By KJ It's one his parents gave him on his 12th birthday. King James version, of course. It's pretty old and beat up now, but cool to have it. Today, I'll think I'll watch a John Wayne classic, True Grit. He was a huge John Wayne fan. ...

 - ME: Well, dammit, it worked for John Wayne in the Sands of Iwo Jima, didnt it? Straightened Forrest Tucker out. And yeah, I could. I am bigger than you. ...

 CA - PW, 2:00) Stagecoach John Ford's Stagecoach is one of the best, most exciting Westerns ever made. It is in this film that John Wayne — the outlaw Ringo Kid ...

 CA - Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), depicting a platoon in the Pacific, is a great companion piece and John Wayne’s best performance. The Right Stuff (1983) – “The ...

By Annaliese Griffin The search for unmitigated wildness is a constant theme in Westerns, from Cormac McCarthy's novels to John Wayne's movies. And frequently, Mexico represents the promised land of wild abandon and utter lawlessness, providing Americans a backdrop in which they could work out their issu...

 CA - Jun 27, 2008 Speaking of John Wayne, I was so happy when last week the American Film Institute made his "The Searchers" the best Western ever made. ...

By Lily Oei 1969)Commercially successful and critically lauded, True Grit proved that classic Westerns were still viable and represented the passing of a baton between one cowboy great -- John Wayne -- to another -- Duvall. Playing villainous "Lucky" Ned Pepper,... Robert Duvall, 1969

By tallnthesaddle Come on, really? There was no John Wayne before John Wayne, UNTIL John Wayne, so how can there be a next John Wayne...like askin who's the next God... cowboys. John Wayne was just America period. His voice alone was enough to make the enemy throw a white flag. Shoulda been President....

By JHenry their choices so far mean that Shetland film lovers will be able to see The Vanishing (the original rather than the unsatisfactory re-make) and The Searchers (arguably the best Western ever made, starring the legendary John Wayne). ...

Hollywood studios have come to the conclusion that Cinema Retro arrived at years ago: there are precious few stars left in the world who are worth their inflated salaries. Unlike the past, where audiences went to see a movie because Marilyn Monroe or John Wayne starred in it, today's hits a...

By mcjoan As much as I love the Myth, and as many times as I'll watch Lonesome Dove and True Grit over and over again, Louis L'Amour and John Wayne just don't cut the mustard for role models in a troubled world. ...

Genghis Khan, Sensitive Soul: The Poetic Masculinity Of 'Mongol' subscription), DC - Immediately we think of the moment in John Ford's The Searchers when John Wayne rescues Natalie Wood from a tribe that has kidnapped her and almost kills ...

By John Hodson Hey; western fandom is a serious business…full details of the Westerns Weekend on the BBC 4 website here. For digitally equipped UK based telly viewers, there’s a feast of westerns on BBC 4 this weekend that you might like to take note of. As well as two-thirds of the ‘Cavalry Trilogy’ and t...

  United States - Finishing a close second was John Ford's masterpiece, "The Searchers," with John Wayne in perhaps his finest role. It picked up 287 votes. ...

 UK - The Searchers is considered by many to be the best western ever made, and by even more to be John Wayne’s greatest performance as the twisted Ethan Edwards ...

By nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) John Wayne made several appearances on TV with Lucille Ball. There was the legendary episode of I Love Lucy in which the daffy redhead stole his footprint from Graumann's Chinese Theater, then there was a return guest-starring stint by the Duke in the mid-1960s on The Lucy Show in which he e...

 VA - called "The Sea Chase" with gorgeous Lana Turner in Kona, Hawaii and John Ford was filming "Mr. Roberts" with Henry Fonda and Jack Lemon in Honolulu. ...

By AMCtv.com From the landmark collaborations between John Ford and John Wayne to Clint Eastwood's masterpiece Unforgiven, the best Westerns don't just entertain, they also teach us a thing or two about honor and self-sufficiency... with great landscapes!

By Annaliese Griffin 1. The Searchers (1956)John Ford's masterpiece is the genre's darkest and most complicated film. Based on Alan Le May's novel, The Searchers casts the heroism of John Wayne's adventurers in a new light, with the transformation of his Ethan Edwards... 1. The Searchers (1956)

Mel Ferrer, the multi-talented actor, producer and director who was once wed to Audrey Hepburn, has died at age 90. Ferrer directed Hepburn in Green Mansions and produced her 1967 thriller Wait Until Dark for which she received an Oscar nomination. Ferrer also starred in War and Peace, Lil...

 - The classic John Wayne film "The Searchers" has long been the standard for how to present a vintage catalog title in high definition and it sets a high bar, ...

By Dirty Harry A perfectly fine review of True Grit predictably devolves into yet-another cliched, leftist, false propaganda hit-job on John Wayne: Images of Wayne’s face, the face that in countless movies welcomed strangers to the west, is sometimes ...

 - as "the young John Wayne … Ethan from The Searchers" in a discussion with Naomi Klein on the Huffington Post (to which he is an occasional contributor). ...

 UK - John Toshack said that he brought a DVD of John Wayne’s The Alamo to prepare his youthful Wales team for a fraught encounter, but Holland did not quite come ...

 CA - Cochise: Henry Fonda stars as a tyrannical Calvary officer in director John Ford's 1948 classic western "Fort Apache" (5 pm TCM). With John Wayne, Shirley ...

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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...

 MI - AP Breaking News Video John Wayne is best known as an actor. But in 1960, he also directed and produced "The Alamo," which was nominated for seven Oscars. ...

By Tom Blunt Clint Eastwood's recent duet of war films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, won accolades for daring to show both sides of a legendary battle. But lest anyone forget, the WWII drama The Longest Day got there first in 1962, and did it with more stars, directors, and authentic to...

  United States - Marion Robert Morrison, aka John Wayne, was a 23-year-old bit player and extra who grew up in Glendale when director Raoul Walsh cast him in his first ...

What's the greatest Western?   United States - John Wayne is at his best as the hate-filled Ethan Edwards trying to rescue his niece from Indians. Director John Ford pulls off the greatest closing shot ...

By nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) Film critic John Farr commemorates James Stewart's 100th birthday with a list of his ten greatest movies. It's hard to argue with the choices, though I'd go against the grain and include Hitchcock's vastly underrated 1956 remake of his own The Man Who Knew Too Much in which Stewart gives on...

By Shawn S. Lealos | 2008-05-18 00:00:00 Before John Ford, it was Raoul Walsh who made John Wayne a star. Here is the movie that introduced a legend.

By nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) John Wayne didn't make too many mistakes in his career, but when he did, they were howlers. Remember when he played Ghengis Khan in The Conqueror, wooing Susan Hayward with "This tartar woman is for me and my blood says 'Take her' and "Yer Beeootiful in yer wrath!" Well, that performance wou...

Writer Charles Taylor offers an insightful essay from Dissent magazine on the persona of John Wayne and how his work in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo stands as arguably the best performance of his career. To read click here Click here to read the review of the Rio Bravo special edition DVD.

 MA - May 11, 2008 John Wayne did a number of things over the years to support our troops, but unlike Audie Murphy in "To Hell and Back," the role Wayne played in "The Sands ...

Deschenes: John Wayne vs. Audie Murphy MetroWest Daily News, MA - John Wayne did a number of things over the years to support our troops, but unlike Audie Murphy in "To Hell and Back," the role Wayne played in "The Sands ...

By Clayton Neuman For Jennifer Klein, the ideal lazy day -- and she admits she's cut class a few times to have them -- consists of a bowl of popcorn and a John Wayne marathon: "The Shootist, True Grit, North to Alaska," she says. "I like Red River because it was the one time when John Wayne was the villain, and I can...

John Wayne was left holding baby Belleville News Democrat,  USA - I thought it might, considering the film he's looking for is John Ford's 1948 flick "3 Godfathers." It stars the Duke, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. ...

By Tom Blunt Wayne's own uneasy relationship with his mother must have been an inspiration to him in the role of John Elder; the biography John Wayne: American chronicles his desperate attempts to win her approval -- which she withheld even after he became the star of the century.

By Jeffrey M. Anderson Actors like John Wayne were routinely overlooked in favor of actors like Marlon Brando, though Brando could never in a million years have pulled off what John Wayne accomplished in The Searchers. Brando could do lots of things, but John ...

At the Movies London Review of Books (subscription), UK - Apr 30, 2008 John Wayne’s film The Green Berets (1968) told another story, but it didn’t tell that one. The cluster of new films about the Iraq War is different in both ...

By Annaliese Griffin 1. What was John Wayne's birth name? 2. Comedic impressions frequently riff on Wayne calling some tenderfoot "Pilgrim," even though he only used the insult repeatedly in one movie. What movie was it? 3. What exactly is Ethan Edwards looking for in The Searchers?

Though Fonda was nominated for Best Actor at age 35 for the 1940 classic The Grapes of Wrath, it wasn’t until the 1980’s that he finally snagged an Honorary Academy Award and that same Best Actor trophy the following year in 1981 for On Golden Pond. As we all know, because there are only so many...

This UNC fan enjoyed time with the Duke  NC - “He loved westerns and his favorite actor was John Wayne,” Cornelia said. “His two favorite John Wayne movies were The Searchers and the last one he made, ...

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 Big Trail (1930) 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 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)