John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on my classic Westerns but the one that made Duke a star was 1939’s Stagecoach, which celebrates its 85th anniversary this year.

The 1880-set story followed a group of strangers riding through dangerous Apache territory, in a movie Orson Welles believed to be textbook filmmaking.

In fact, he watched it over 40 times in preparation for making “the greatest movie of all time” Citizen Kane.

Stagecoach also had Wayne wearing his trademark hat that he sported…