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• Accused Crook Eats Evidence In Police Station

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 560
  John Ford was caught red-handed.  The 35-year-old bank robber was caught by police in Streetsboro, Ohio, just south of Cleveland.  They found an exploded bank dye pack in his car.  The car matched the description of the robber’s car.  Also, he had a big bag of stolen money when he was apprehended.  However, he ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 6

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  The casting of Robert Montgomery (1904–1981) in They Were Expendable was uncommonly appropriate. The suave, handsome actor made his name in debonair romantic comedies throughout the 1930s, but like John Ford he didn’t wait until America was dragged into war before enlisting. In 1940, fired up by the ...
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• THE EXILES (Kent MacKenzie, 1961)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  London-born Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles begins with Edward S. Curtis photographs: the Native American Past. Cut to the present, on a Bunker Hill, Los Angeles street; through this shot, which initially appears to be another photograph, a trolley moves. This first, unexpected bit of motion establishes a tension with ...
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• MISTER ROBERTS (John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, 1955)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  Douglas A. Roberts, whose initials suggest an elitist organization (Daughters of the American Revolution), “has background,” as we used to say; he is one of those “college boys” that his captain, Morton, whose background is rough and working-class, disdains. (They treated him with contempt when he was a ...
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• AIR MAIL (John Ford, 1932)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  Written by Frank Wead and directed both beautifully and efficiently by John Ford, Air Mail revolves around the dangers to air-mail pilots flying out from a tiny snow-blown airport around Christmastime and the clash of personalities between straight-laced Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy), who runs the airport, and pilot ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 5

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  “I was just the paint for the palettes of Ford and Hawks.” – John Wayne – John Wayne was still young in 1944, only thirty-eight years old. And yet the major elements of his inimitable style were hardening into place. Perhaps no other actor in history has been so cognizant of using his body to express grand ...
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• Young Mr. Lincoln

  
  Precious Bodily Fluids — Authority: 126
  Well, gee, vote for me Most film protagonists, especially of the sort with which viewers are supposed to sympathize, are neither morally perfect nor totally evil. Exceptions tend to fit into the former category, however, as is the case with John Ford’s film Young Mr. Lincoln . It’s the sort of film that a ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 4

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] “Close-ups, affectionate or noble, are held at leisure; long shots are sustained long after their narrative role has been performed. A marginal figure is suddenly dwelt on, lovingly enlarged to fill the center of the ...
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• RIO GRANDE (John Ford, 1950)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  Jean-Marie Straub identified John Ford as the most Brechtian of filmmakers. Case in point is the most brilliant shot in Rio Grande , the final installment of Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy. White children, kidnapped by Apaches, are holed up in a small Mexican church; a U.S. Cavalry troop, inside the church, plan on ...
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• FORT APACHE (John Ford, 1948)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  The first and most brilliant part of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy is Fort Apache ; the only Ford film to star both Henry Fonda and John Wayne, it pits two characters against each other who epitomize different aspects of the military impetus: purity and practicality; careerism and leadership; military orders and ...
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• SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (John Ford, 1949)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  “Custer is dead,” matter-of-fact voiceover declares at the outset of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , the middle part of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy, written by Frank S. Nugent and Laurence Stallings from the story “War Party” by James Warner Bellah. It is an informative public voice. Six weeks before his ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 3

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  “That bold buckaroo with the cold green eyes .” – General Douglas MacArthur, describing his savior John Bulkeley – In March 1942, facing imminent capture by the Japanese, America’s commander in the Far East was ordered to slip away to safety in Australia. The Empire of the Sun controlled both air and sea, ...
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• Mister Roberts (1955)

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 138
  Mister Roberts lobby card set image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Thomas O. Heggen’s Mister Roberts first sailed into movie theaters in 1955. Henry Fonda has the title role, with Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell and Ward Bond as his shipmates. Thomas O. Heggen’s Mister Roberts Mister ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 2

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  “I am really a coward. I know I am, so that’s why I did foolish things. I was decorated eight or nine times, trying to prove that I was not a coward, but after it was all over I still knew, know, that I was a coward.” – John Ford – June 4, 1942. The Battle of Midway. John Ford was on his back, covered in ...
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