John Wayne

This page collects the films featuring John Wayne reviewed at Master of Worlds: “The Horse Soldiers (1959)”, “The Longest Day (1962)”, and “The Searchers (1956)”. Each review examines the performance and the role it plays in the film’s larger design, approaching the work as storytelling first. The collection grows as further titles are added.

The searchers review

The Searchers (1956)

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John Ford’s 1956 western. Wayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.

The horse soldiers 1959 review

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

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The Horse Soldiers is John Ford’s only Civil War film and one of his weaker collaborations with John Wayne. Wayne plays Colonel John Marlowe, a Union…

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