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★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Will Kane (Gary Cooper), the marshal of a small frontier town in New Mexico Territory, gets married in a small civil ceremony to his beautiful young wife Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), a Quaker whose imminent plans include a family and a convenience store someplace else. Fully intending to play the doting husband, to that end it is also Kane's last day on the job, and he hands in his badge...

McLintock! 127 minutes | 13 November 1963 | United States A homespun affair which saw John Wayne test his comic chops while expounding his views on political corruption, the cinematic treatment of Native Americans, and the nuclear family, in McLintock the star plays a wealthy rancher who is forced to settle local disputes while laying down the law for his quarrelsome...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - starring James Stewart and John Wayne - is often considered the last great film John Ford directed, in a career that comprised around 140 films over a period of fifty years. Released in 1962, Ford would direct only four more feature-length pictures; including one more with his friend and longtime collaborator Wayne,...