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John Ford - what members say
review by from London, England
Hate, Revenge, Love 28 July 2004
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A Classic 23 February 2005
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This is the BEST 4 July 2005
John Ford - filmography
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Never Apologize
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Alan Bates
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
Certificate: 
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The documentary of Malcolm McDowell's celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature.
Directed by Mike Kaplan, whose friendship with McDowell began on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and who produced Anderson's last ..read more »
 
59%
from 278 members
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The American West Of John Ford
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, John Wayne
Director: John Ford
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A documentary which focuses on the director John Ford and his interest in the western film. Featuring insights from the actors who so often starred in his westerns; James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. Introduced by Tony Curtis and featuring the original theatrical trailer for the film Vertigo.
55%
from 112 members
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Cheyenne Autumn
(1964)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
Director: John Ford
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This last Western from director John Ford ranks as one of his most ambitious and moving works. Ford outfits his Trail-of-Tears-like saga with a strong cast, stunning cinematography by long-time collaborator William Clothier and a stirring Alex North score. To play the Cheyenne nation desperately ..read more »
53%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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Donovan's Reef
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden
Director: John Ford
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The hilarious DONOVAN'S REEF, one of John Ford's rare but memorable forays into comedy, is set on the South Sea island of Haleakoloha, where two navy buddies have decided to stay after World War II. Michael "Guns" Donovan (John Wayne) and Aloysius "Boats" Gilhooley (Lee Marvin), who like to ..read more »
69%
from 857 members
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles
Director: John Ford
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks What is truth? in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the ..read more »
72%
from 3,706 members
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Two Rode Together
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
Director: John Ford
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The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and ..read more »
61%
from 307 members
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The Horse Soldiers
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Director: John Ford
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THE HORSE SOLDIERS, John Ford's only attempt at tackling the subject of the Civil War, is based on Grierson's Raid, part of the Union's assault on Vicksburg in April 1863. After a number of failed efforts at taking the Southern stronghold, Union leaders assign Col. John Marlowe (John Wayne), a ..read more »
68%
from 952 members
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Gideon's Day
(1958)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Andrew Ray
Director: John Ford
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Jack Hawkins stars as Chief Inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard in this classic British crime thriller directed
by Hollywood legend John Ford.
Inspector Gideon is a dedicated family man - but it's hard to meet the demands of your family and tackle the relentless wave of crime sweeping through ..read more »
33%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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The Searchers - HD
(1956)
Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood, John Wayne
Director: John Ford
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A classic Western regarded by many as the best of the genre, John Ford's THE SEARCHERS has been acknowledged by several directors who came into their own in the 1970s, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, and George Lucas, as a powerful influence on their work. The film stars ..read more »
74%
from 173 members
Currently unavailable
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Mogambo
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
Director: John Ford
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Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit. After a brief fling with Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner), an adventurer temporarily stranded in Kenya, Vic is hired as a guide by British anthropologist Donald ..read more »
58%
from 283 members
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What Price Glory
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: James Cagney, Corrine Calvet, Dan Dailey
Director: John Ford
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Two soldiers stationed in a French village during World War 2, both fall in love with the same woman. The question is whether they will kill the enemy before they attack each other...
58%
from 89 members
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The Quiet Man
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen
Director: John Ford
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistible valentine to the Auld Sod in The Quiet Man. Irish-American boxer John Wayne, recovering from the trauma of having accidentally killed a man in the ring, arrives in the Irish village where he was born. Hoping to bury ..read more »
72%
from 2,801 members
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Rio Grande
(1950)
Starring: Claude Jarman, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
Director: John Ford
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John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen (Maureen O'Hara). Yorke gets word that his son, Jeff (Claude Jarman Jr.) -- whom he hasn't seen in 15 years -- has been dropped as a cadet from West Point, and that he lied about his ..read more »
69%
from 1,456 member
Not currently released
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The Wagon Master
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr.
Director: John Ford
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In 1849, Ward Bond (Elder Wiggs), a Mormon elder hires young horse traders Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy (Harry Carey Jr.) to guide a party of Mormons to the distant and unexplored San Juan River Country.
68%
from 57 members
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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar
Director: John Ford
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The second of John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in Technicolor. In an Oscar-calibre performance, 42-year old John Wayne plays sixtyish Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days before his compulsory retirement, Brittles must face ..read more »
70%
from 1,698 member
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3 Godfathers
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Harry Carey Jr.
Director: John Ford
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John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men (1919) with his mentor Harry Carey, a great cowboy star of the silent era who had recently died. It's not difficult to see how the story's sentimentality and Christian symbolism ..read more »
64%
from 477 members
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Fort Apache
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple
Director: John Ford
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A first of John Ford's trilogy of cavalry movies set during America's struggle against the Apache Indian.
Henry Fonda plays the stubborn Colonel Thursday whose textbook methods of warfare appear as pure as suicide to everyone but him. John Wayne stars as Captain York, a soldier experienced in ..read more »
68%
from 1,646 member
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The Fugitive
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio
Director: John Ford
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The Fugitive follows the journey of a village priest (Henry Fonda) who despite the threat of death at the hands of revolutionary militants, who have outlawed religion, returns to his people to administer to their religious needs.
59%
from 64 members
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My Darling Clementine
(2 discs)
(1946)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Alan Mowbray, Victor Mature
Director: John Ford
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt Earp legend, but it is still one of the most entertaining. Henry Fonda stars as former lawman Wyatt Earp, who, after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of ..read more »
74%
from 886 members
Not currently released
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They Were Expendable
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
Director: John Ford
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On the eve of war, Lt. John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) is assigned to take his Patrol Torpedo Boat Squadron to Manila Bay to defend against a possible Japanese attack in the Philippines. Once there, he finds that the top brass--amused by the idea that small crafts can be useful in combat--..read more »
67%
from 356 members
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How Green Was My Valley
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood, Anna Lee
Director: John Ford
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In John Ford's HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY, Huw Morgan, now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalls the events that most impressed themselves upon his younger self (Roddy McDowall). His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning ..read more »
67%
from 1,563 member
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The Long Voyage Home
(1940)
Starring: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter
Director: John Ford
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The clouds of World War II are looming in this tense drama. John Wayne plays a young Swede aboard a cargo ship, where the threat of mortal danger evokes fear, loneliness and suspicion amongst the volatile crew.
58%
from 305 members
Not currently released
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The Grapes Of Wrath
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell
Director: John Ford
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A moving story of the migration to California of an Oklahoma family during the 'Dust-Bowl' period of the 1930's. Henry Fonda gives a sterling performance as Tom Joad, a poor farmer who refuses to be beaten down by misfortune and oppression. Based on a novel by John Steinbeck.
74%
from 3,296 members
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Drums Along The Mohawk
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Director: John Ford
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DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has ..read more »
59%
from 251 members
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Young Mr Lincoln
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver
Director: John Ford
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film shows Lincoln (Henry Fonda) as he rises from a country boy born in a log cabin to a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois defending two young men unjustly accused of murder. The film, ..read more »
68%
from 304 members
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Prisoner Of Shark Island
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, John Carradine
Director: John Ford
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Written by Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road), The Prisoner of Shark Island dramatizes the fatal shooting of Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) and the subsequent visit by the assassin John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) to Dr. Samuel Mudd's house to fix his broken leg. Unaware ..read more »
67%
from 126 members
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Mary of Scotland
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge
Director: John Ford
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This tragic story deals with the short lived reign of Mary Stuart (Katharine Hepburn), her relationship with the queen of England, Elizabeth Tudor, and her marriage.
60%
from 59 members
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Steamboat Round The Bend
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb
Director: John Ford
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A steamboat captain uses a steamboat littered with waxworks as a tourist attraction in order to raise funds for the legal fees his nephew needs in the hope of saving him from the gallows. Based on the novel by Ben Lucien Burman, John Ford's STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND stars Will Rogers in one of his ..read more »
56%
from 54 members
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The Informer
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster
Director: John Ford
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Powerful John Ford drama set in 1922 Dublin, where Gypo Nolan - desperate to save himself and lover Katie, who's resorting to prostitution to eke out a living - betrays former rebel comrade Frankie to the British authorities. And so begins a long dark night of the soul...
68%
from 120 members
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The Lost Patrol
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford
Director: John Ford
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934. Sergeant Victor McLaglen is in charge of a World War I-era British cavalry regiment, stranded somewhere in the Mesopotamian desert. McLaglen hasn't asked for the responsibility: ..read more »
54%
from 31 members
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The Iron Horse
(1924)
Starring: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, George Waggner
Director: John Ford
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This John Ford silent Western stars George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. An epic Wild West tale, THE IRON HORSE follows the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, and is particularly interesting as a document of early American cinema.
62%
from 234 members
Not available for rental
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December 7th
on DVD
Starring: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews
Director: John Ford
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During World War II, director John Ford joined the ranks of the many Hollywood actors and filmmakers who
participated in the war's film propaganda effort. At the behest of the United States' military, John Ford and
legendary cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath) mounted ..read more »
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from 1 member
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John Ford facts
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...Probably John Ford's best film, 'The Searchers' is the saga of an ex-Confederate soldier, Ethan Edwards, who embarks on a long, obsessive search for his niece Debbie, wh...
