John Wayne may not have jumped out as someone susceptible to blackmail, but even 'The Duke' had to answer to the studio heads.

John Wayne made a patriotic comeback to Westerns in Rio Bravo. After John Ford’s The Searchers, Duke had made an effort to move away from the genre, however, the movies he made afterwards weren ...

The actor's gruff and surly cowboy persona didn’t usually suit romantic endings to most John Wayne movies. It’s to Dickinson’s credit that she was able to make it work in Rio Bravo ...