Roy Rogers and Trigger greet Dale Evans, Beverly Lloyd and Peggy Stewart in a scene from Utah (1945) shot in Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills. ...

Even though Monument Valley has less than four minutes of screen time in Stagecoach , it made an indelible impression on Moviegoers in 1939...

Forget the legend. Monument Valley wasn’t unknown to Hollywood before 1939’s Stagecoach , and director John Ford only “discovered” it in th...

Monument Valley and Sedona share a unique distinction – thanks to the movies, both symbolize “the West” in the American subconscious and to ...

“When in Southern California, visit Universal Studios.” That was the pitch Universal used back in the 1960s to cross-promote its La-La Land ...

Paramount Pictures went on to make 52 more films based on Zane Grey stories over the next 17 years, but  To the Last Man , unlike  The Vanis...

Chill Wills Max Evans' 1960 novel The Rounders , filmed in Sedona by director Burt Kennedy and released by MGM in 1965, was the first...

The most enduring Sedona legend surrounding  Angel and the Badman  is that John Wayne and Gail Russell had a love affair during local filmin...

Behind the Scenes Photo Number Two: It’s hard to overstate the significance of John Wayne’s 1946 visit to Sedona to film  Angel and the Bad...

When RKO Radio Pictures began promoting its upcoming films for the 1944 season, Maureen O’Hara was announced as John Wayne’s Tall In The Sad...

Forget MGM – how many tapdancers have you noticed bucking and winging across the screens of your local multiplex lately? The Golden Age movi...

Behind the Scenes Photo Number One: Bright-eyed and bushy-haired Marion Morrison––who was just starting to answer to the name “John Wayne”...

The Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray release of John Ford’s Stagecoach is a keeper––the film looks better than it has in decades and the disc...

Rex, a.k.a. “King of the Wild Horses,” was a lot like human movie royalty: Captivating onscreen, out of ­control off it. His name may not be...

A lot has changed in Sedona, including fashion, since Zane Grey’s The Call of the Canyon was filmed in the area in 1923, but the red rock s...