The Western is one of America’s unique cultural gifts and no one personified that genre better than John Wayne — not Gary Cooper, not Clint Eastwood. In a career that spanned four decades, Wayne, with ...
In late 1953 all eyes were on El Paso as the Plaza Theater hosted two motion picture movie premieres in about two months. On Sept. 21, 1953, there was the premiere of "Take the High Ground!" filmed in ...
Seventy years ago, John Wayne put San Dimas on the map via a line of movie dialogue. I’m talking about 1953’s “Hondo.” Did Wayne laud downtown’s wooden sidewalks or put in a plug for Raging Waters?