Back in 1945, John Wayne decided to make an epic movie about the Battle of the Alamo ... After threats of legal action, Widmark agreed to finish the move, getting Burt Kennedy to rewrite his ...

There were no small parts in a John Wayne movie. Though John Wayne is the most recognizable of these performers, he was neither the first nor the longest-tenured of these Western stars.

However, all it took was one dolly zoom of the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach to cement John Wayne's status as a bonafide movie star. Following his breakthrough performance in Ford's revolutionary 1939 ...