John Wayne had many acting credits to his name, but Stagecoach, True Grit, and The Searchers were among the Western masterpieces he starred in.

The iconic, career-ending death scene that John Wayne filmed for The Shootist nearly happened 26 years earlier, via a 1950 Western film.

Were it not for the efforts of Enos “Yakima” Canutt (1895-1986), John Ford’s “Stagecoach” (1939) might be less than what it is — that is to say, a masterwork of American cinema — and would not be on ...

John Wayne had many acting credits to his name, but Stagecoach, True Grit, and The Searchers were among the Western masterpieces he starred in.