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

John Wayne and John ... in high school at the time, Wayne and co-star Jeffrey Hunter had to pick her up and take her to set on a number of occasions. The Searchers, which celebrates its 69th ...

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It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John ... iconic of Wayne's many films, The Searchers is also ...

“The Searchers” isn’t, as the title makes plain, about Debbie. It’s about Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) and Ethan Edwards (John Wayne). The two men have tasked themselves with rescuing Debbie from ...

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In The Searchers, John Wayne gives perhaps his most intense and psychologically layered performance as Ethan Edwards, a bitter Confederate soldier obsessively searching for his niece after she's ...

Thanks to Ford, who cut his teeth in silent pictures, The Searchers is a masterful combination ... The rider is her brother-in-law, Ethan Edwards, played by Wayne. There is a narrative to the ...

You've probably heard of Hollywood's most famous cowboy, John Wayne. Often referred to as "The Duke," Wayne starred in over 100 movies, many of them Westerns, over his 50-year career. But did you ...

No one would argue that John Wayne was a true legend. 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.