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1 day ago · In an interview with Box Office Mojo, Ford once spoke of the “greatest misconception” about Ford and noted, “Probably political – that Ford was so [politically] aligned with John Wayne. Not that they were on completely different ends, but, during the Depression years, Ford was a Democrat – at least during the war years.”
4 days ago · “John Ford (1586 – c. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England. His plays deal mainly with the conflict between passion and conscience. Although remembered primarily as a playwright, he also wrote a number of poems on themes of love and morality.”
1 day ago · Released in 1950, John Ford's Western Wagon Master was a film overlooked by both critics and audiences alike upon its initial premiere. By 1950, Ford was a three-time Academy Award winner who established himself as the world's greatest Western movie director.
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1 day ago · Harry Carey Was the First Prolific Member of the John Ford Stock Company John Ford and John Wayne made over a dozen films together from the 1930s through the 1960s, including classics such as ...
5 days ago · In fact Wister wrote most of The Virginian sitting in an exclusive men’s club in Philadelphia. Zane Grey, one of the most popular Western writers ever, was a dentist from Ohio. And John Ford, who directed many of the most popular Western films ever made (many of which I love, by the way), was born and raised in Maine.
4 days ago · Masculine Identity in John Ford’s ‘The Big Country Mateo Thomas 1 month ago 0 4 mins In the iconic 1958 Western film “The Big Country,” lanky protagonist James McKay (Gregory Peck) utters a wise statement that many men and women alike would struggle to understand: “There’s some things that a man has to prove to himself alone, not to anyone else.”
4 days ago · John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on a number of classic Westerns, but the one that made Duke a star was 1939's Stagecoach, which marks its 85th anniversary this year. The film, set in 1880, followed a group of strangers riding through dangerous Apache territory, and was admired by Orson Welles as textbook filmmaking.
