He’s the only four-time Best Director Academy Award winner. Curiously, though, legendary filmmaker John Ford–whose birthday was earlier this month–never won for the movie genre he’s most associated with: westerns. His quartet of Oscars came for The Informer (1935),…
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Hank Worden appeared with John Wayne in 17 films over the course of his career. Only a couple of other actors had a bigger number of roles with Wayne. Paul Fix (the marshal from the TV show Gunsmoke) topped them…
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Although there have been hundreds of Westerns released since films began, there is only one that stands saddles and boots above its rivals: John Ford‘s 1939 epic Stagecoach. Filmed in Monument Valley (the site of many real-life sagebrush adventures), the…
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