John Ford

...Christmas in Connecticut (1945), starring Barbara Stanwyck; Holiday Affair (1950), with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh; John Ford's 3 Godfathers (1948), starring John Wayne; and Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), with Margaret O'Brien and...

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...on the fiction list for a while); and along with a third novel, they were made into Hollywood films, with "Drums" being directed by John Ford, no less. But it took a bookstore to bring the two of us together. It took that dreamy process of...

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But when sick, I am looking for cinematic comfort food. And what comforts me the most is the sight of John Wayne (in pretty much any John Ford western, starting with "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "The Searchers," though "Fort Apache" is...

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...and "... didn't do well" in "High Noon"). She worked early on for directors, including the great Fred Zimerman and legendary John Ford, who simply (and sadly) did not take the time nor the interest to "direct" her, Spoto writes. Underneath...

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...liability was that he made many different kinds of movies, rather than being identified with one genre as were Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks and other favourites of "auteur critics." But the more Sragow examined the evidence,...

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...feature films. The context: Released in the spring of 1956, the film came at the tail end of director John Ford's extraordinarily prolific career. He'd made more than 100 films already and had won four Best Director Oscars (a record that...

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...Faye Dunaway, Fred MacMurray, George c. Scott, George Sanders, Humphrey Bogart, Instant Messaging, Jamie Foxx, Janus Films, John Ford, John Huston, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marcel Carne, Paddy Chayefsky, Peter Finch, Peter Sellers, Preston...

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Very funny. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), Sunday, 4:30 p.m., AMC THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) John Steinbeck's novel graphically rendered by John Ford into a brilliant, wrenching movie about the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Henry Fonda...

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...overlong, and coldly impersonal," but four of the American films he rated highest in '62, auteur flicks all, are on BAM's lineup: John Ford's seemingly geriatric, then generally dismissed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Robert Aldrich's...

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...was a bittersweet night for Alfred Hitchcock. His first Hollywood production, Rebecca, took Best Picture, but he lost Best Director to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath, the first in a career-long run of five nominations without taking a...

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