Feature: John Wayne Centennial

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Ian Woolstencroft

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• DVD Review: The John Wayne Film Collection Box Set

  Have Warners unearthed any lost Wayne classics or are they scraping the bottom of the barrel with this set?

  Review by Ian Woolstencroft — on Jul 01, 2007

• John Wayne Centenary: The '70s - Big Jake, The Cowboys and The Shootist

  The journey through Wayne's career reaches its conclusion with three classic '70s westerns.

  Review by Ian Woolstencroft — on Jun 25, 2007

• John Wayne Centenary: The '60s - The Alamo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, McLintock!, The Sons of Katie Elder, El Dorado, The War Wagon, and True Grit

  The decade that finally saw Duke win an Oscar.

  Review by Ian Woolstencroft — on Jun 18, 2007

• John Wayne Centenary: The '50s - Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, Hondo, The Searchers and Rio Bravo

  John Wayne made some of the best films of his career in the '50s, including two of the greatest westerns ever made.

  Review by Ian Woolstencroft — on Jun 07, 2007

• John Wayne Centenary: The '40s - Fort Apache, Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Sands of Iwo Jima

  The '40s were filled with formulaic action films but at the end of the decade Wayne made four classics.

  Review by Ian Woolstencroft — on Jun 02, 2007

• John Wayne Centenary: The '30s - The Big Trail and Stagecoach

  John Wayne's first shot at the big time missed the mark but with John Ford's help he scored a hit with Stagecoach.

  Review by Ian Woolstencroft — on May 28, 2007

• John Wayne, My Dad, and Me or How I Learned to Love The Western

  May 26 marks the 100th anniversary John Wayne’s birth, arguably the biggest star Hollywood has ever produced.

  Opinion by Ian Woolstencroft — on May 26, 2007