My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...

The box office appeal of John Wayne combined with the imprint of John Ford makes "The Searchers" a contender for the big money stakes. It's a western in the grand scale - handsomely mounted and in the ...

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City has announced the lineup for its annual 70mm festival, which, in an age of ubiquitous digital projection, celebrates the cinematic power that the ...

Cynthia Ann Parker or, as she came to be known, Na’ura, was born in Illinois’s Crawford County sometime around 1827. Her father, Silas M. Parker, along with brother James, traveled west with their ...

MOVIE: THE SEARCHERS - 1956 / John Wayne It was but one skirmish in a protracted war betweens Texas settlers and Comanche warriors, one abduction among countless others. But when vengeful raiders ...

Due to his popularity as the genre's leading star, many may wonder what John Wayne's all-time favorite Western actually was. With so many thought-provoking horse operas to choose from (and so many ...

John Ford's The Searchers (1956) is one of the greatest and most influential Westerns ever made, the culmination of his distinguished directing career, and featuring John Wayne's most complex ...

The influence of "The Searchers" on cinema from the 1970s to present is the least-elusive thing about director John Ford's 1956 Western. Countless horror films have borrowed Ford's intense zoom on ...

The Searchers actress Pippa Scott has died at the age of 90. Her daughter, Miranda Tollman, confirmed her passing on May 22 in Santa Monica. Remembered for her memorable performances on screen and ...