My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...

John Wayne’s 1956 Western “The Searchers” will debut a new restoration as part of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival in April. This marks the second Wayne film to receive a premiere of a restored ...

While ‘The Searchers’ is by no means perfect, it is director John Ford’s most painterly movie. Even when the scenes have been contrived in a Hollywood backlot, the movie is rich in color and ...

John Ford's landmark Western 'The Searchers' remains one of the greatest movies ever made, and is John Wayne's personal ...

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City has announced the lineup for its annual 70mm festival, which, in an age of ubiquitous digital projection, celebrates the cinematic power that the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

A funny thing happened on May 26. I sat down for my first-ever viewing of The Searchers, the 1956 John Ford classic starring John Wayne and a very young Natalie Wood. Unbeknownst to me at the time was ...

Due to his popularity as the genre's leading star, many may wonder what John Wayne's all-time favorite Western actually was. With so many thought-provoking horse operas to choose from (and so many ...

The Searchersis certainly one of the best westerns of all time, and there are a handful of excellent films that pair well with the John Wayne classic. Released in 1956, it marks the peak of the ...