In her essay, "John Wayne: A Love Song," author and screenwriter Joan Didion recalled the experience of first seeing John Wayne on screen in a theater in 1943. The film was In Old Oklahoma, which ...
The iconic scene that famously ended John Wayne's movie career came close to happening 26 years prior toThe Shootist. After decades of great Western roles, John Wayne reunited with James Stewart for ...
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 ...
Were it not for the efforts of Enos “Yakima” Canutt (1895-1986), John Ford’s “Stagecoach” (1939) might be less than what it is — that is to say, a masterwork of American cinema — and would not be on ...
Katrina Anderson has an avid interest in film, TV, and pop-culture. She has a MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser University. Her thesis project described the literary qualities of the ...