Considering his wise breadth of Westerns over the span of about 50 years, one might think that John Wayne worked with just about everybody, and, for the most part, you'd be right. But there’s ...

Chisum was John Wayne's first movie of the 1970s, the Western legend's final decade. Having had a cancerous lung removed a few years earlier, Duke had to rely on an oxygen mask and hide his ...

Back in 1969, John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his role ... ill at the beginning of 1974 having contracted pneumonia in London while filming Brannigan. The 67-year-old, who had lived ...

John Wayne and his career are widely recognized ... In the movie Brannigan, Wayne portrays Chicago cop Jim Brannigan, who is sent to London to bring back a notorious American gangster.

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both films, wanted to make it a ...

It's easy to take for granted the fact that John Wayne is arguably the most notable Western star that Hollywood ever produced. But it wasn't always this way. Back when the Duke was a far younger ...