John Wayne was set to star in another Western following his final movie, The Shootist, in 1976, but a pay dispute saw him ...

John Wayne worked with some of the greatest actors of his generation, but according to the man himself, only three of them ...

John Wayne turned down the lead role in the famous war movie The Dirty Dozen, and it may have been better for it, if not so ...

one-eyed deputy US Marshal Rooster Cogburn, memorably portrayed by John Wayne in the 1969 movie), the book made me contemplate the nature of toughness. Toughness in the sense of an unyielding ...

The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, pictured Jeff Bridges to better advantage, I thought, as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." The 2010 remake from 1969 fleshes out other characters, as the directors ...

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John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later. The movie cost $1.6 million, making it one of the most expensive Westerns at that point in ...

This week marks the 79th anniversary of the release of 1945’s They Were Expendable, a film set during the Battle of the Philippines which took place just a couple of years prior. The film’s ...

That alone speaks to its power as a film, as well as Wayne's as an actor. Maybe it's a little arrogant to consider your own movie the best of its genre, but in John Wayne's case, it's hard to argue.