Guns Donovan (Wayne) tries to appear fatherly, and fails miserably, in Donovan's Reef. The Background: John Wayne’s relationships with...

In this 1921 aerial photo, the Wedge can be seen at the top center, where a jetty intersects with the strand at a right angle. Balboa...

Please Note: This was originally published September 11, 2020 You might not be aware that the South Pacific island-nation of Tuvalu has a...

Baron Hats, a movie-industry staple for 50 years, is now in downtown L.A. Photo: Flickr John Wayne got his hats from many different...

John Wayne films aren’t especially known for their soundtracks. All they need is some bouncy melody behind a horse chase, a few tender...

Chuck Roberson (right) appeared in more films with John Wayne than any other actor. He appeared alongside John Wayne in more movies than...

The Movie: Hondo (1953) is an essential film for any John Wayne fan. The cast is superlative, with Ward Bond, James (Gunsmoke) Arness,...

"None of that cow purch. Give us whiskey." John Wayne at the bar, Rio Lobo. The most famous cliché in Westerns is a cowpoke loping into a...

Puff Rogers (Wynne Gibson) and Slag Bailey (George Bancroft) stake broken-down pug Buzz Kinney (John Wayne) to a meal in a scene from...

Some movie-goers leave their seats the moment “The End” fades in. Others—and we like to think the readers of John Wayne Speaks are among...

John Wayne reveals his real name to Phil Donahue in 1976. Or does he? Most fans of John Wayne know that he wasn’t given that name when he...

John Wayne shined even more brightly when he had a foil, whether it was a drunken sheriff (El Dorado), a goofy partner like Lullaby...

Paul Fix and John Wayne prepare to make a big boom in the Andes in Tycoon. Yakima Canutt, a mainstay of John Wayne’s early films, and...

John Wayne as Steve Williams and Marie Windsor as ex-wife Anne Williams McCormick. The Movie: Trouble Along the Way is a highly kooky...

John Wayne at home--reflective, old-fashioned, self-deprecating. With the recent emphasis on John Wayne’s 1971 Playboy interview, we are...

John Wayne and Eiko Ando in a scene from The Barbarian and the Geisha. In 1856, at a time when Japan has closed its doors to foreigners,...