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Director John Ford’s 1934 film Judge Priest stars Will Rogers as 1890s widowed small-town Kentucky Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, who engages his laid-back common-sense and humanity to dispense justice generally, and in particular […]
John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]
Director John Ford’s 1926 Western 3 Bad Men is an enduring, great Ford silent movie, in which the star trio of outlaw gunslingers turn kindly to help a girl whose father has been killed by horse […]
This strongly felt, nostalgic 1957 personal project from director John Ford turns out to be an uneven, minor airborne action drama providing an interesting but bumpy ride. But there are lots of incidental real pleasures […]
Director John Ford’s well-staged, effectively acted and involving if rather cosy and cuddly 1958 political drama The Last Hurrah is the second of his three distinguished films with young star Jeffrey Hunter, following The Searchers […]
Director John Ford’s 1953 MGM romantic adventure comedy movie stars the great, sexy team of Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly, whose lustrous allure is the film’s evident recommendation. Based on the play Red Dust […]
This splendid 1924 classic silent Western from the Fox Film Company and the already expert young director John Ford virtually invented the vocabulary of the genre. The characters’ lives are set against the background of […]