"I'm John Ford; I make Westerns" was the credo of one of the genre's most celebrated directors. Fellow filmmakers Orson Welles and Lindsay Anderson called Ford "America's greatest director," and critic Roger Ebert considers My Darling Clementine (1946, TCM premiere) the greatest of all Ford Westerns. Filmed in Ford's beloved Monument Valley, the movie tells the story of Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), which Ford had heard directly from Earp himself. Ford returned to Monument Valley for another classic, The Searchers (1956), starring John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier searching for a niece (Natalie Wood) who has been kidnapped by Comanches. Wayne considered The Searchers his best film work and named his third son John Ethan in honor of his character. If Ford established many of the Western's most honored traditions, Italian director Sergio Leone offered a revisionist twist in his highly stylized "spaghetti Westerns," beginning with A Fistful of Dollars (1964). In casting the laconic "Man With No Name," Leone had tried to hire James Coburn but couldn’t afford him and settled for a relatively little-known television actor named Clint Eastwood. The rest is Western-movie history.