Category: John Wayne

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘3 Godfathers’

NR | 1 h 45 min | Drama, Western | 1948 Several 20th-century filmmakers, among them notably John Ford, took turns bringing Peter B. Kyne’s novella “The Three Godfathers” to the screen: a Westernized retelling of the timeless Biblical Christmas tale of the Three Wise Men. Three robbers flee a posse of Arizona lawmen across…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Operation Pacific’

1951 | Not Rated | 1h 51m | Drama, Romance, War When it comes to war movies, submarine warfare films can be some of the most intense ones to experience. Some of that intensity is due to the physical confines of submarines themselves—relatively cramped conditions where men of war must learn to live together while…


Rewind, Review, and Re-rate: ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’

1954 | Not Rated | 2h 3m | Drama, Western Some filmmakers use a narrative trick that almost feels like cheating in order to pique curiosity about their films. This clever setup involves starting a movie in the present and having the characters elude to something critical to the story that happened in the past….


How John Wayne Became the Face of America—On-Screen and Off

Rarely is a man remembered for who he was when he was so overshadowed by what he did. In the case of John Wayne, however, who he was and what he did were one and the same. John Wayne, born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, in the very small Iowa town of Winterset,…


Where Have All the Good Men Gone? The Attack on the Alpha Male and the Rise of the Beta Male

With gender ideology frontline in the cultural war, many have asked the question, “What is a woman?” But we also must ask, “What is a man?” With the rise of feminism and the LGBTQ agenda, men in our society have been neglected. Women complain they want a real man, yet they stifle the very qualities…