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Wayne gave a great performance in Stagecoach, the movie that forever changed Westerns. Orson Welles holed up in the basement of the NYC library to watch it over and over to learn John Ford's cinematic techniques.

He was outstanding in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. Actually, everything in the Cavalry Trilogy is good.

The Searchers was Ford's best movie and Wayne gave an inspired and somewhat dark performance.

Wayne was also great in Red River, which he did not do with Ford. Ford is reported to have said after he saw it, "I didn't know the son of a bitch could act!"

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Spielberg in interview called The Searchers the best movie ever made, not merely the best western.

“Stagecoach”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEuCMRRLts8