Wayne played stoic, all-American heroes in many of his movies, but there were certain characters he would never play ...
Quentin Tarantino isn't a fan of John Wayne's seminal western The Searchers — but that hasn't stopped him from borrowing its most iconic shot.
Accompanying Ethan is Debbie's adopted brother ... The Searchers, the finest hour for both Ford and John Wayne, is a concise point-A to-point-B narrative wrapped with an epic's worth of pathos ...
According to the Duke, the best Western ever made is actually the John Ford film The Searchers, the 1956 picture that starred Wayne as Ethan Edwards. Westerns were never the same after this flick ...