Category: John Ford
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John Ford’s Unexpected Blunder And Unveiling Sam Peckinpah’s Harsh Verdict
Filmmakers have rarely come as combustible as Sam Peckinpah, who skirted the line between genius and madness with such reckless abandon that it both defined and ultimately hampered his career. As the orchestrator of Major Dundee, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and Bring Me the Head of…
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John Ford’s Game-Changing Henry Fonda Film – Is ‘My Darling Clementine’ a True Story?
For legendary filmmaker John Ford, telling the story of the American West through a demystified lens is conveyed through a singular image. In 1946, a shot of Henry Fonda sitting on the porch of a local barbershop, leaning back on a chair as he looks upon the open vista is a minimalist example of Ford’s…
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John Wayne: The Searchers Featured An Appalling Mistake By Ward Bond That Had To Be Covered Up For Years To Avoid The “Terrible Temper”
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 saw Duke play a Civil War veteran spending years searching for his abducted niece, played by Natalie Wood.…
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Why Did John Wayne Feel Unrecognized by John Ford Until After His Oscar Win?
Movie star John Wayne and legendary filmmaker John Ford made one of the most iconic actor-director duos ever. However, the director was infamously harsh on the actor, frequently coming down hard on him in front of entire movie sets. Ford didn’t open up about his positive feelings toward Wayne’s performances until after he won an…
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John Ford’s Timeless Aesthetic: The Intersection of Fact and Legend
Great Movie John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds. Beginning with “Stagecoach” (1939), continuing from 1948 through 1950 with the Cavalry Trilogy (“Fort Apache,” “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and “Rio Grande”), and finally to 1962 and “The Man Who Shot Liberty…
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The Untold Spat: John Wayne’s Harsh Words for Clark Gable That Shocked Hollywood
John Wayne has an impressive filmography backlog, and while fans across the world devoured the flicks he has starred in, those he shared the screen with often did not. The star, who passed away in 1979 aged 72, recalled a number of his celebrity feuds in conversations with his daughter Aissa. Writing in 1991’s ‘John…