A 1956 John Wayne Western that was named his best helped inspire one of the greatest songs of all time.

Well into the 21st century, John Wayne remains one of the most enduring figures in film. While modern evaluations of the man's beliefs certainly lend themselves to criticism, John Wayne the actor is ...

John Wayne’s most complicated Western hero turned a rescue mission into something far darker.

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

John Wayne became one of the greatest actors of all time during a career that lasted half a century. But it was Wayne's 1956 film called The Searchers, directed by John Ford, that has been considered ...

My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...

John Wayne is one of the most legendary actors of all time, and during the 1950s and 60s, "The Duke" owned the Western genre. Wayne starred in countless classic films throughout these decades, and the ...

A funny thing happened on May 26. I sat down for my first-ever viewing of The Searchers, the 1956 John Ford classic starring John Wayne and a very young Natalie Wood. Unbeknownst to me at the time was ...

When John Wayne starred in John Ford's epic western The Searchers, it marked a shift in cinema. Martin Scorsese calls it the ...