FLICK PICKS: John Wayne westerns

Sunday night at midnight
through Monday night at midnight,
Encore Westerns

While other Memorial Day marathons spotlight John Wayne's war movies (They Were Expendable at 9:45 a.m. ET on TCM, The Longest Day at 8 p.m. ET on AMC), Encore Westerns celebrates not the military holiday but The Duke's birthday (May 26, 1907).

Its 24 hours of Wayne westerns reach from his early talkie cheapies to his 1950s John Ford masterpiece The Searchers [right]:

• 12 a.m. ET - Riders of Destiny (1933)
• 1 a.m. ET - The Lucky Texan (1934)
• 2 a.m. ET - West of the Divide (1934)
• 3 a.m. ET - Blue Steel (1934)
• 4 a.m. ET - Randy Rides Alone (1934)
• 5 a.m. ET - The Star Packer (1934)
• 5:50 a.m. ET - The Trail Beyond (1934)
• 6:50 a.m. ET - The Lawless Frontier (1934)
• 7:40 a.m. ET - 'Neath The Arizona Skies (1934)
• 8:35 a.m. ET - Texas Terror (1935)
• 9:30 a.m. ET - The Desert Trail (1935)
• 10:30 a.m. ET - The Dawn Rider (1935)
• 11:30 a.m. ET - Paradise Canyon (1935)
• 12:30 p.m. ET - Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
• 1:30 p.m. ET - Three Faces West (1940)
• 2:50 p.m. ET - In Old California (1942)
• 4:20 p.m. ET - Angel and the Badman (1947)
• 6:05 p.m. ET - Legend of the Lost (1957)
• 8 p.m. ET - The Searchers (1956)
• 10:10 p.m. ET - The Horse Soldiers (1959)