A small cinema shows John Wayne movies at night. For the end of my trip, following my overnight atop Hunt’s Mesa, I decided to camp on Monument Valley’s floor among the most famous monoliths.

Drawing its title from the well-known military tune, the film reunited the dynamic duo of John Ford and Wayne amidst the striking backdrop of Monument Valley on the border between Arizona and Utah.

Back in 1947, John Ford and John Wayne kicked off the first of their ... The Western was filmed in the director's favoured Monument Valley where the blazing heat, high winds and desert storms ...