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John Ford established Arizona's Monument Valley as the western movie outdoor set in his John Wayne triology, Fort Apace, Rio Grande, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

The ghost that keeps on living An impressionable 12-year-old rode to the top of an Arizona hill one afternoon with an old Cowboy friend to check a windmill.

ENLARGE Red Cliffs Lodge, about 14 miles outside of Moab, Utah. Ray Guziak Head west on I-70 towards Utah.

Monument Valley is known to cinephiles as "John Ford Country" because the great director made seven Western masterpieces there - "Stagecoach," "My Darling Clementine," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "The Searchers," "Sergeant Rutledge" and "Cheyenne Autumn." But he also used to great advantage another Utah location - Moab - when he ...

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN is one of my very favorite John Wayne movies, which I revisit on a regular basis.

So striking in appearance that Technicolor inventor Herbert Kalmus was said to have used her red-haired and green-eyed image to promote his creation, Maureen O'Hara was an Irish-born actress whose versatility allowed.... So striking in appearance that Technicolor inventor Herbert Kalmus was said to have used her red-haired and green-eyed image to ...

In my film library reside more than 60 John Wayne DVDs. Certainly not the majority of his 250 films; but, the best, in my opinion.

In my film library reside more than 60 John Wayne DVDs. Certainly not the majority of his 250 films; but, the best, in my opinion.

This son of Academy Award-winning actor Victor McLaglen learned the craft of directing apprenticing with the likes of John Ford, Budd Boetticher and William A Wellman.

Once upon a time in the west it was easy to spot the hero - he wore a white hat.

After a day full of parades, picnics and fireworks, how better to wind down than with a great Independence Day movie? Here are a few July 4th favorites to help make it a Yankee Doodle Day! 1. 1776 - This is the 1972 made for the cinema version of the musical that tells the story of our founding fathers and the writing of the Declaration of ...

A Movie A Week: RIO GRANDE Well, whatever else the young man is, hea s a good judge of horseflesh.

Marion Morrison was the son of an Iowa pharmacist; he acquired the nickname "Duke" during his youth and billed himself as Duke Morrison for one of his early films.

Actor. Born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa. One of the most popular film actors of the twentieth century, John Wayne remains a popular American icon to this day.