In a career that spanned five decades and roughly 142 films, John Wayne became one of the biggest stars of the silver screen. Released in 1953, Hondo is probably Wayne’s most beloved film not directed by John Ford or Howard…
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard…
Warner Bros. | 1968 | 141 mins. | Rated G A steadfast supporter of the war in Vietnam, John Wayne sought, and received, the support of the Johnson Administration for the making of 1968’s The Green Berets. Wayne had spent…