In 1950, John Wayne starred in Rio Grande, the third installment of his Cavalry Trilogy (alongside Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) directed by John Ford. The cast and crew faced ...

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his ...

Actor John Wayne and director John Ford are made for one of the most iconic duos of American Western cinema, but their best collaboration was their first movie, Stagecoach. Released in 1939 and ...

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo ... he said he’d make her a star if she signed up for three movies, even though Rio Lobo would be his last. Since she declined, the filmmaker ...

A year later, he played the son of a cavalry officer (John Wayne) in John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950 ... about two years in Florida to finish the movie; one shot with a deer needed 115 takes ...