"pictures during this era produced movies that gained international acclaim. In 1952, Manuel Conde's ""Genghis Khan"" became the first Asian film to be shown at the Venice and Cannes Film Festival, a feat that would not be repeated until the 1970s. Inspired by Conde's picture, Hollywood remade ""Genghis Khan"" in 1956 as ""The Conqueror"" with John Wayne as the lead star ""The Conqueror"", from RKO Radio Pictures. And also of Columbia Pictures' film ""Genghis Khan"" in which Omar Sharif portrayed in the title role in 1965. In 1956, ""Anak Dalita"" won the Golden Harvest Award (Best Picture) of the prestigious"
"The Searchers The Searchers is a 1956 American Technicolor VistaVision Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, set during the Texas–Indian wars, and starring John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adoptive nephew (Jeffrey Hunter). Critic Roger Ebert found Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, ""one of the most compelling characters Ford and Wayne ever created"". The film was a commercial success. Since its release it has come to be considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest and most"
"of the twentieth century, ""actors spoke in a kind of neutralized Midwestern dialect,"" with actors like Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck having distinct qualities. Actor John Wayne conveyed a similar dialect even as the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan in the 1956 film ""The Conqueror"" with little objection. The French New Wave in the 1950s and the 1960s imported films, including ""La dolce vita"", ""The 400 Blows"", ""Hiroshima mon amour"", and exposed U.S. film audiences to new accents. The ""Los Angeles Times"" said in 2000, ""Once upon a time, what characters said in a film was more important than how they"
"(with John Wayne in Gary Cooper's role of Glennister, Marlene Dietrich replacing Compson, whom she resembled, as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara), and 1955 (with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister, and Rory Calhoun as McNamara). The 1930 and 1942 versions were the only instance of Gary Cooper and John Wayne playing exactly the same role in the same story in two different films. While traveling to Nome, Alaska, Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets beautiful Helen Chester (Kay Johnson), who soon becomes his sweetheart. Glenister is one of several owners of a lucrative mine called The Midas."
"in the historical epic ""The Conqueror"", as John Wayne's leading lady. It was critically reviled but a commercial success. She did a comedy with Kirk Douglas, ""Top Secret Affair"" (1956) which flopped. Hayward made one more film with Wagner, ""I Want to Live!"" (1958), playing Barbara Graham which was a critical and commercial success. Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar. Hayward made ""Thunder in the Sun"" (1959) with Jeff Chandler and ""Woman Obsessed"" (1959) at Fox. In 1961, Hayward starred as a working girl who becomes the wife of the state's next governor (Dean Martin) and ultimately takes over that"
"tough time breaking my image in that movie... it blocked my image as a gutsy outdoorsman."" Whitman starred alongside John Wayne in ""The Comancheros"", a hit 1961 Western Deluxe CinemaScope color film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a 1952 novel of the same name by Paul Wellman. The film stars John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. The supporting cast includes Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, Jack Elam, Patrick Wayne, and Edgar Buchanan. Also featured are Western film veterans Bob Steele, Guinn ""Big Boy"" Williams, and Harry Carey, Jr. in uncredited supporting roles. Whitman said in 1961, ""I've"
"(1949), ""The Quiet Man"" (1952), ""The Wings of Eagles"" (1957), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. The first movie in which he called someone ""Pilgrim,"" Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956), is often considered to contain Wayne's finest and most complex performance. Wayne was nominated as the producer of Best Picture for ""The Alamo"" (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was ""The Green Berets"" (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War in support of the war. During the filming of ""The Green Berets"", the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central"
"starring John Wayne. During the American Civil War, Col. Cord McNally, has left his close friend, Lt. Ned Forsythe, in charge of the Union troops on a Union army payroll train. However, Confederates led by Capt. Pierre Cordona and Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips hijack the train. Their scheme uses a very elaborate plan which suggests that the Confederates must have gotten detailed inside information about the transport. During the robbery, Forsythe is fatally injured, and McNally personally takes up the pursuit. His squad is spread thinner and thinner, until McNally is left on his own, and Cordona and his men capture"
"and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth."" Wayne's other roles in Westerns include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in ""Red River"" (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in ""The Searchers"" (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in marriage in ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in ""True Grit"" (1969). He is also remembered for his roles in ""The Quiet Man"" (1952), ""Rio"
"the Academy Award for Best Director for John Ford, his fourth, and for Best Cinematography. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In the 1920s, Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, travels to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm and his birthplace in Inisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), the sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire ""Red"" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). Danaher, who had wanted the farm"
"Alan Le May Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, ""The Searchers"" (1954) and ""The Unforgiven"" (1957). They were adapted into the motion pictures ""The Searchers"" (1956; starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter, and directed by John Ford) and ""The Unforgiven"" (1960; starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, and directed by John Huston). He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for ""North West Mounted Police"" (1940; directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard), ""Reap the"
"more about the hazards in the area than it let on. Since the primary cast and crew numbered about 220, and a considerable number of cancer cases would be expected, controversy exists as to whether the actual results are attributable to radiation at the nearby nuclear weapons test site. Statistically, the odds of developing cancer for men in the U.S. population are 43% and the odds of dying of cancer are 23% (slightly lower in women at 38% and 19%, respectively). The Conqueror (1956 film) The Conqueror is a 1956 American CinemaScope epic film directed by Dick Powell and written"
"(or Sophronia) Louise Claiborne, was only two years old at the time of the battle. The romance with Lafitte is complete fiction. The Buccaneer (1958 film) The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film ""The President's Lady"". The film was shot in Technicolor and VistaVision, the story takes place during the War of 1812, telling a heavily fictionalized version of how the"
"The Plainsman The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The film presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, and General George Custer, with a gun-runner named Lattimer (Charles Bickford) as the main villain. The film is notorious for mixing timelines and even has an opening scene with Abraham Lincoln setting the stage for Hickok's adventures. Anthony Quinn has a role as an Indian. A remake using the same title was released in 1966. With the"
"The Deer Hunter The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of steelworkers whose lives were changed forever after they fought in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, with John Cazale (in his final role), Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza playing supporting roles. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a small working class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and in Vietnam. The film was based in part on an unproduced screenplay called ""The"
"Slept Here"" (1954) for director Frank Tashlin. Even when he appeared in lighter fare such as ""The Reformer and the Redhead"" and ""Susan Slept Here"" (1954), he never sang in his later roles. The latter, his final onscreen appearance in a feature film, did include a dance number with costar Debbie Reynolds. By this stage Powell had turned director. His feature debut was ""Split Second"" (1953) at RKO. He followed it with ""The Conqueror"" (1956), coproduced by Howard Hughes starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. The exterior scenes were filmed in St. George, Utah, downwind of U.S. above-ground atomic tests."
"on myth. In the early 1950s John Wayne began developing a film based on the Battle of the Alamo. When he left his contract with Republic Pictures he was forced to leave behind a partial script. Republic Pictures had the script finished and developed into the 1955 movie ""The Last Command"". Although the film had its historical inaccuracies, it was the most detailed of the films on the Texas Revolution. Wayne continued to develop an Alamo movie, resulting in the 1960 film ""The Alamo"", starring Wayne as Davy Crockett. Although screenwriter James Edward Grant claimed to have done extensive historical"
"The Comancheros (film) The Comancheros is a 1961 Western Deluxe CinemaScope color film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a 1952 novel of the same name by Paul Wellman, and starring John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. The supporting cast includes Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, Jack Elam, Patrick Wayne, and Edgar Buchanan. Also featured are Western-film veterans Bob Steele, Guinn ""Big Boy"" Williams, and Harry Carey, Jr. in uncredited supporting roles. When illness prevented Curtiz (director of ""Casablanca"" and ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"") from finishing the film, Wayne took over as director, though his role remained"
"The Buccaneer (1958 film) The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film ""The President's Lady"". The film was shot in Technicolor and VistaVision, the story takes place during the War of 1812, telling a heavily fictionalized version of how the privateer Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose between fighting for America or for the"
"daughter has been kidnapped. However, co-director Zacharias Kunuk discarded the original's plot about conflicts between white people and indigenous peoples, instead using only Inuit characters. Kunuk explained racism was not an intended theme of his film. Kunuk said he watched western films in the Igloolik community hall as a boy, and declared ""The Searchers"" star John Wayne ""was our hero."" The ballet ""Martha (The Searchers)"" by Julia K. Gleich, first produced by Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts, was inspired by the film. The Searchers The Searchers is a 1956 American Technicolor VistaVision Western film directed by John"
"the inept marshal Appleyard, Denver Pyle, John Carradine, and Lee Marvin in one of his first major roles as the brutal Valance, with Lee Van Cleef and Strother Martin as his henchmen. It is also notable as the film in which Wayne first used his trademark phrase ""Pilgrim"" (his nickname for James Stewart's character). It was very successful, grossing over $3 million in its first year, although the lead casting stretched credibility—the characters played by Stewart (then 53) and Wayne (then 54) were meant to be in their early 20s, and Ford reportedly considered casting a younger actor in Stewart's"
"people and indigenous peoples, instead using only Inuit characters. Kunuk explained racism was not an intended theme of the film, though given the time setting, the Inuit would have some items received from white people, as there were trading posts then. Kunuk said he watched western films in the Igloolik community hall as a boy, and declared ""The Searchers"" star John Wayne ""was our hero."" However, he said his perception of Wayne became more complicated as he learned more about him. Actor Natar Ungalaaq made his directorial debut with this film, along with Kunuk, who directed him in the 2001"
"notes Citations Bibliography Lafayette Escadrille (film) Lafayette Escadrille, also known as C'est la Guerre, Hell Bent for Glory (UK) and With You in My Arms, is a 1958 American war film produced by Warner Bros.. It stars Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau and features David Janssen and Will Hutchins as well as Clint Eastwood in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman and is based on his original story. Thad Walker (Tab Hunter), a spoiled, rich kid from Boston, who had gotten in serious trouble with the law, fled to"
"The Law and Jake Wade The Law and Jake Wade is a 1958 Metrocolor western released by MGM in CinemaScope, based on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert and directed by John Sturges. The title character, Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) is a now reformed town sheriff marshal with a past that will soon catch up with him. Before he is able to marry and live peacefully with his bride-to-be, Peggy Carter (Patricia Owens), an old shadowy friend, Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark), escapes from jail. Jake is methodically stalked by his psychotic ex-partner, who makes it clear that he wants"
"Ethan Wayne John Ethan Wayne (born February 22, 1962) is an American actor. The son of actor John Wayne and his third wife, Pilar Pallete, he grew up in Newport Beach, California, where he shared his father's love of the ocean and outdoors. His name was chosen in direct relation to John Wayne's character in ""The Searchers"" (""Ethan Edwards""). He played Little Jake, the grandson of his father's title character in ""Big Jake"". Ethan started doing stunt work after the death of his father in 1979. His first film was ""The Blues Brothers"". He then went back to work as"
"starred in ""The Missouri Traveler"" (1958), but over 100 episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957–1960 television series ""M Squad"" were needed to actually give him name recognition. One critic described the show as ""a hyped-up, violent ""Dragnet"" ... with a hard-as-nails Marvin"" playing a tough police lieutenant. Marvin received the role after guest-starring in a memorable ""Dragnet"" episode as a serial killer. In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as ""The Comancheros"" (1961), John Ford's ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), and ""Donovan's Reef"" (1963), all starring John Wayne, with"
"lobbied John Ford to cast him as the second lead in ""The Searchers"" (1956), supporting John Wayne. Disney borrowed him to play William Allen Fuller in the Civil War action movie, ""The Great Locomotive Chase"" (1956), opposite Fess Parker. Ironically, according to Parker's Archive of American Television interview, Ford had originally wanted to cast Parker in Hunter's role in ""The Searchers"" but Disney refused to loan him out, something Parker didn't hear about until years later; Parker referred to his loss of that part to Jeffrey Hunter as his single biggest career setback. The success of ""The Searchers"" and ""Great"
"listening to one of his favorite songs, a rendition of ""Over the Rainbow"" sung by Ella Fitzgerald. Gene Wilder Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author. Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series ""The Play of the Week"" in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture ""Bonnie and Clyde"", Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film ""The Producers"" for"
"made a melodrama ""Woman Obsessed"" (1959) and thriller ""Seven Thieves"" (1960). He was reunited with Wayne on the comedy-action ""northern"", ""North to Alaska"" (1960). Hathaway was one of three directors on the epic Cinerama Western, ""How the West Was Won"" (1962), directing the bulk of the film, including the river, prairie, and train robbery sequences. He went to Spain to work with Wayne again on ""Circus World"" (1964). Wayne asked Hathaway to cast John Smith in the role of Steve McCabe in the film; Smith from 1959 to 1963 had played the part of rancher Slim Sherman on NBC's ""Laramie"""
"""City That Never Sleeps"" (1953), and that of Uncle Bawley in ""Giant"" (1956), which also features Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Wills was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Davy Crockett's companion ""Beekeeper"" in the film ""The Alamo"" (1960). However, his aggressive campaign for the award was considered tasteless by many, including the film's star/director/producer John Wayne, who publicly apologized for Wills. Wills' publicity agent, W.S. ""Bow-Wow"" Wojciechowicz, accepted blame for the ill-advised effort, claiming that Wills had known nothing about it. The Oscar was instead won by Peter Ustinov for"
"and Betty Compson as Malotte; this is the only time that Gary Cooper and John Wayne played the same role in two different films), and 1955 (with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister, and Rory Calhoun as McNamara). Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne also appeared together that same year in a movie called ""Pittsburgh"". Scott was billed above Wayne in both movies, even though Wayne's role was larger and more important in each, not only because Scott had been a star for much longer, but also because he was under contract to Universal, whereas Wayne was"
"Donovan, a gay porn star. Tryon died of stomach cancer on September 4, 1991, at the age of 65, in Los Angeles, California. Tom Tryon Thomas ""Tom"" Tryon (January 14, 1926September 4, 1991) was an American film and television actor as well as a novelist. He is best known for playing the title role in the film ""The Cardinal"" (1963), featured roles in the war films ""The Longest Day"" (1962) and ""In Harm's Way"" (1965) with John Wayne, and especially the Walt Disney television character ""Texas John Slaughter"" (1958–1961). He later turned to the writing of prose fiction and screenplays,"
"which is now widely regarded as not only one of his best films, but also by many as one of the greatest westerns, and one of the best performances of John Wayne's career. Shot on location in Monument Valley, it tells of the embittered Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards who spends years tracking down his niece, kidnapped by Comanches as a young girl. The supporting cast included Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles and rising star Natalie Wood. It was Hunter's first film for Ford. It was very successful upon its first release and became one of the top 20"