John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on some of the Hollywood Golden Age's best-loved Westerns from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Perhaps their most famous was 1956's The Searchers, which is on BBC Two this afternoon. The film saw Duke play a Civil War veteran spending years searching for his abducted niece, played by Natalie Wood.
Still a student in high school at the time, Wayne and co-star Jeffrey Hunter had to pick her up and take her to set on a number of occasions.
The Searchers was shot in Ford's favoured Monument Valley, part of the Navajo territory on the Arizona/Utah state line, temperatures during filming could reach heights of 49°C (120°F).
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