I've always loved one of John Wayne's greatest Westerns from the 1950s, but a fan theory about his character makes it an even ...

May 26, 1956, John Ford‘s The Searchers hit movie theaters, and Western films were never the same. John Wayne plays Ethan ...

Born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa on May 26, 1907, he took the stage name John Wayne for his movies, but was also lovingly known as The Duke. He was movie star royalty and became one of the most ...

Who doesn’t love a John Wayne western? The 1956 movie “The Searchers” was one of his best, and Glenn Frankel’s book by the same name tells the true legend behind the film. “It was based ...

Wayne starred as the lead character, Ethan Edwards, in The Searchers. After the end of the Civil War, he returns back to Texas to see his family. However, he’s thrown into another kind of war ...

Yet it’s always been more, thematically and culturally, than just a John Wayne movie about finding a white girl abducted by Comanche Indians. Author Glenn Frankel’s “The Searchers ...

The Searchers became one of the most notable collaborations between Wayne and his longtime mentor, John Ford. The movie star played Ethan Edwards, a Civil War soldier, who returns back to Texas ...

"The Searchers," directed by John Ford, hit the big screen in 1956. John Wayne starred in the lead role of the film as Ethan Edwards. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "THE SEARCHERS") JOHN WAYNE: (as Ethan ...

John Wayne and John Ford collaborated ... with him in a number of Ford’s movies like Fort Apache, Rio Bravo and The Quiet Man. However, on The Searchers Bond was particularly badly behaved ...

John Wayne in ‘The Searchers’ (1956 ... neither has it done so for the academic culture from which identity politics stems. Whatever. “The Searchers” is a supernal movie. The opportunity to see it on ...