Violence and the Western genre often go hand-in-hand, but not every horse opera is an excessive mess of blood, guts, and gore. In general, John Wayne pictures are pretty lax when it comes to violence.

After undergoing surgery for cancer that resulted in the removal of a lung and four ribs, Wayne had to depend on an oxygen mask at high altitudes, a fact he kept hidden from his fans. In 1971, at the ...

As one of the final motion pictures made by the Duke in the early 1970s, Big Jake is a great film. While many may emphasize the film's particularly violent tone (in fact, this author has before), one ...

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara starred in three Westerns together in three different decades, culminating with the release of Big Jake in 1971. After over five decades, the film has made a resurgence ...