Monument Valley, Utah, is located at the four corners of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. The endless desert with the towering buttes made it an ideal location for westerns. “Stagecoach” is the ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The gorgeous vistas and wide-open spaces of Monument Valley have never stood in greater contrast to John Ford's dark story of a Confederate veteran on a quest to find his niece, kidnapped by Comanches ...

The opening panel of "The Searchers," John Ford's classic western, sets the scene as Texas 1868, but the real setting was Monument Valley, Utah; the year was 1955; and Ethan Edwards was played by the ...

The film’s images – the door of a frontier cabin swinging open to reveal the vast grandeur of Monument Valley in the film’s opening moment, and closing again at the end; Indians stalking a small band ...

My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...