Back when tv offerings were much scarcer, I watched quite a few of those old hour-long pictures he made at the beginning of his career.
Every now and then they show up on one of the cable movie channels
Yep, Wayne’s “Lone Star” productions, released through Monogram, 1933-35. They fell into public domain, and were quite common. But the outfit with the best best-quality prints of them added some annoyingly modern ‘synthesizer’ music to them to cover the silence during action scenes and such, which I loathe. I prefer the old-fashioned, early-talkie silence that was a common characteristic of b-westerns of that time.