John Wayne Articles

The trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western True Grit, featuring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Hailee Steinfeld, received wild raves by various online pundits earlier today. Perhaps I’m the only one who has been left totally unimpressed. Not only that, as much as I admire Jeff Bridges, this trailer makes True Grit look like something I’d be quite reluctant to shell out [...]

John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara in John Ford’s The Quiet Man (top); Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara in Henry King’s The Black Swan (bottom) Maureen O’Hara, who is turning 90, is Turner Classic Movies‘ "Star of the Day" today, Aug. 17, as TCM continues with its "Summer Under the Stars" series. [Maureen O’Hara TCM schedule.] I was stunned by Maureen O’Hara’s beauty when I saw her as [...]

Dennis Hopper will have his day — or rather, evening — on Turner Classic Movies on Tuesday, June 8. TCM has rescheduled its primetime and overnight lineup in honor of actor-director-screenwriter Hopper, who died May 29 at the age of 74. The most interesting-sounding of the five scheduled Hopper films is the one I haven’t seen, yet: Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1963), about a sailor [...]

Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and Frank Sinatra are a few of the movie personalities to be found in the May film series at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va. [Full Schedule.] Screening films include Fred Zinnemann’s multiple Academy Award-winning blockbuster [...]