John Wayne fronted around 80 Westerns in his career ... There was once talk of a follow-up to his hit war movie Sands of Iwo Jima called Devil Birds, though that film ultimately went unmade ...
Best portions of this pic are the straight battle sequences, many of which were made up of footage taken at the actual fighting at Tarawa and Iwo Jima. John Wayne stands head and shoulders above ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kellerman commented, “This ‘Iwo Jima: 80th Anniversary Edition’ is more than a whiskey; it’s a tribute to the resilience and spirit of America’s heroes, where uncommon valor was common.” ...
His big break came in 1970 with Chisum, where he starred as Billy 'The Kid' Bonney opposite John Wayne. He was in two episodes of The Streets of San Francisco in 1973 and 1974 opposite Michael ...
John Wayne had an absolute monopoly over the greatest Western characters of all-time for almost three decades. After his star-making performance in John Ford’s influential 1939 classic ...