Hondo

Hondo (1953) is a John Wayne western you can watch online on iFILM, directed by John Farrow and drawn from Louis L'Amour's short story of the same name.

Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane stumbles onto a remote ranch in the middle of Apache country. Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page) is keeping the place together alone — her husband has been gone for months, raids are getting closer, and help is nowhere. Hondo stays. The film is less interested in the Apache war than in what happens when two people who've learned to need no one discover they might need each other after all.

Page received an Oscar nomination for her work here — a sharper, more grounded turn than the era's usual western heroines. Stream Hondo (1953) online on iFILM.