The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at 60: the great American western
John Ford’s 1962 masterwork remains a surprisingly downbeat film about the west with never-better performances from James Stewart and John Wayne
June 2020
Democrats push to drop John Wayne’s name from airport over racist comments
Democrats in Orange county, California, call for change in light of ‘racist and bigoted statements’ actor made in 1971 interview
May 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … The Searchers
I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …
March 2020
'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children
The sons and daughters of John Wayne, John Lennon, Caitlyn Jenner and others tell us what it was like to grow up with a world-famous dad
September 2019
Is it time to rename John Wayne airport?
The actor had secured a firm spot in American history until a controversial interview surfaced revealing his troubling views
June 2019
True Grit at 50: the throwback western that gave John Wayne his only Oscar
Released in the same year as The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Henry Hathaway’s western was defiantly old-fashioned in comparison
February 2019
Should we be surprised by John Wayne's racist and homophobic views?
Caspar Salmon
The online commentary about a Playboy interview unearthed from 1971 shows a lack of education about the western actor, his times and even American history
October 2017
John Carpenter: 'Could I succeed if I started today? No. I’d be rejected'
The horror master, releasing a new album of film scores, talks John Wayne, why he never watches his movies, and having his work co-opted by neo-Nazis
May 2017
A brush with greatness
The day I met John Wayne on a rusty old industrial estate in Greenford, Middlesex
It’s July 1974, and the Duke is in town to shoot a film, suffering from lung cancer, effing and blinding and cheerfully laying into everything and everyone. By Quentin Falk
April 2016
California lawmakers reject John Wayne Day over racist statements
Legislators defeat official ode to actor after several Democrats described statements he made about racial minorities
October 2015
Maureen O’Hara obituary
Hollywood to remake The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as 80s mob thriller
September 2015
Reel history
Scrap accuracy – give me Ringo Starr as the pope: the 10 quirkiest historical films
Alex von Tunzelmann
From John Wayne as Genghis Khan to 1776’s catchy showtunes about dysentery … here’s my favourite examples of movies which have played fast and loose with historical truth
June 2015
On my radar
On my radar: Iain Sinclair’s cultural highlights
Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout
November 2014
The Searchers: my most overrated film
The Searchers radically reinvented every wild west trope, the critics said. Trouble is, no one told John Wayne or John Ford, writes Xan Brooks
September 2014
Andrew McLaglen obituary
Film director whose collaboration with John Wayne extended the life of the western
July 2014
Reel history
The Green Berets: how the war was spun
John Wayne's heirs duke it out with university over right to name whiskey
February 2014
Oscars 2014: 10 of the all-time best Academy Awards ceremony moments
From Jack leching over Jennifer to John Wayne's farewell and Brando's no-show, these are just some of the greatest moments at the Oscars ceremonies ever
