John Wayne has starred in 80 Westerns, becoming a towering Western ... then starred Molly O'Day at First National Pictures in ...

Though John Wayne is the most recognizable of these performers, he was neither the first nor the longest-tenured of these Western stars ... as Republic Pictures released a tremendous 51 films ...

While they both had storied and prolific careers on their own, John Ford and John Wayne ... the Western game. From the beginning, Ford was an exceptional visual artist, crafting exquisite images ...

Before 'The Great Train Robbery', the first western movie, 'Kidnapping By Indians', was made several years before in an English town.