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Movie: The Searchers, starring John Wayne, released in 1956

The Searchers was a movie released in 1956. It was the 12th collaboration between the Western star John Wayne and the director John Ford, and is acknowledged to be one of the best westerns ever made. The movie takes the iconic image of a western hero, who stands alone, and is also seen as an [...]

Movie: The Comancheros – Starring John Wayne (1961)

The Comancheros was a Western movie starring John Wayne. The movie is reckoned as one of the better of Wayne’s western movies. John Wayne also played a role in direction of the movie (although his role in direction is not credited, since he took over the direction after the Director, Michael Curtiz, cancer-stricken, was unable [...]

Movie: My Name is Nobody (1973) – A comic spaghetti western

Spaghetti westerns were all the craze starting with the ‘Man with No Name’ series, starring Clint Eastwood, and directed by Sergei Leone. More directors and stars got into the act, and soon, there were a number of such movies in the market. However by, the early 1970′s, the whole concept of spaghetti westerns were becoming [...]

Movie: A Fistful of Dollars (1964): The original spaghetti western

In the 60′s, and the early 70′s, Spaghetti Westerns, shot with young or ageing US leads along with Spanish / Italian stars, and using an Italian / Spanish cast caught on, and continued till the early 70′s, when people started getting tired of this line of films. Two of the people who were most closely [...]