Ward Bond

John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple star in John Ford's 1948 Western, a sombre exploration of the mythology of American heroes.

Henry Fonda is Wyatt Earp in this critically acclaimed John Ford-directed classic western about a lawman out to avenge the deaths of his brothers at the hands of cattle rustlers.

1950s Western starring Joan Crawford as a saloon owner wrongly accused of murder by her rival. Inducted into the USA National Film Registry in 2008.

An epic, morally complex Technicolour adventure, The Searchers is legendary Western director John Ford’s most famous and influential film. John Wayne is loner antihero Ethan Edwards, who sets off on a bitter and relentless five-year search for his neice (Natalie Wood) and for Scar (Henry Brandon), the fearsome Comanche chief who abducted her.

Classic western starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff who enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in order to keep a criminal in jail who happens to be the brother of a hot-headed rancher with a posse of hired killers...

Best Picture Oscar nominee that earned John Ford his fourth Academy Award for Best Director. Stars John Wayne as an American man who returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Filmmaking giant John Huston's 1941 debut feature, based on the hard-boiled novel by Dashiell Hammet and starring Humphrey Bogart as private-eye Sam Spade. Named the 23rd best film of all time by the American Film Institute.

Frank Capra's 1946 Christmas classic, one of the great feel-good movies, with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey...

John Ford's high seas drama set just as WWII begins, combining four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays... Features John Wayne, rather oddly playing an innocent Swedish farmer. Nominated for six 1941 Oscars.