John Wayne

Out and About: Weekend Picks

source: DCist

MOVIE: The National Portrait Gallery is showing free Western movies by John Ford this weekend. Tonight's movie is Fort Apache, starring John Wayne, ...

Published Fri, Nov 20

Marine fought in three wars and dared challenge John Wayne

source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

 CA his remembrances as a screenwriter, feature writer and sometime stuntman during the heyday of low-budget westerns. As a technical advisor to the 1949 movie "Sands of Iwo Jima," filmed at Camp Pendleton, Lewis struck up a friendship with John Wayne. ...

Published Wed, Jun 10

Jack Lewis, Marine, novelist and movie writer, dies at 84

source: Los Angeles Times

 CA While in the military, he became technical advisor to the 1949 movie 'Sands of Iwo Jima' and befriended star John Wayne. He was a combat correspondent and also wrote books and screenplays. By Tony Perry Jack Lewis, a decorated Marine Corps officer, ...

Published Wed, Jun 10

UPDATED - Films on TV - May 23 to 29

source: Northallerton Times

 UK John Wayne – reprising his Fort Apache role – is Lt Col Kirby Yorke, who experiences some strange emotions when his estranged wife and son turn up at his post. The stunt-riding by Ben Johnson, a former cowboy and future Oscar-winner, has to be seen to ...

Published Sat, May 23

UPDATED - Films on TV - May 23 to 29

source: Nidderdale Herald

 UK John Wayne – reprising his Fort Apache role – is Lt Col Kirby Yorke, who experiences some strange emotions when his estranged wife and son turn up at his post. The stunt-riding by Ben Johnson, a former cowboy and future Oscar-winner, has to be seen to ...

Published Fri, May 22

For Memorial Day, Part 3: Five Best War-Movie Deaths

source: blogs.houstonpress.com

 TX Sgt. John M. Stryker (John Wayne) -- The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Smoking kills. Not that you need to tell the five-pack-a-day smoking Duke that. It killed him in real life, taking a lung and his stomach before finally finishing him off, ...

Published Fri, May 22

Sergeants Rock

source: Big Hollywood

 CA The archetype is Marine Sergeant Stryker in The Sands of Iwo Jima, in which John Wayne supposedly utters the quintessential NCO aphorism “Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.” But even if the Duke actually never says those words in the film, ...

Published Mon, May 11

This Week on DVD and Blu-ray - May 5, 2009 " This Week on DVD and ...

source: DVDTOWN.com

John Wayne Westerns" throws together "The Cowboys," "Fort Apache," "Rio Bravo" and "The Searchers" whilst the similarly named "Western Adventures" collects "The Wild Bunch" (restored director´s cut, apparently), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," "Jeremiah ...

Published Mon, May 4