Actor John Wayne had a grave without a marker for almost 20 years. However, the family did this to serve a specific purpose. The Western star and his movies touched many lives around the world and ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John Wayne. Getting his start in B-movies in the 1930s, Wayne ...

Silver screen gun-slinger John Wayne reportedly hated communism so much that he was the target of an assassination plot ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

While not exactly known for making sequels, John Wayne played the same character a whopping eight times in a classic 1930s ...

Although John Wayne turned down Mel Brooks’ iconic Western spoof Blazing Saddles, this ironically saved the iconic parody movie. John Wayne’s many Western movies might contain moments of comedic ...

John Wayne was positioned as a cultural superhero long before superheroes were a tangible genre in Hollywood. He wasn't just a cowboy actor, but a crusader for the mythological image of America as the ...

When you think of westerns, there are a few famous faces that are synonymous with the genre, two of the most notable being Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. Eastwood’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a ...