In this documentary centered on legendary filmmaker John Ford's cinematic contributions to Allied morale during World War II,...
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2005
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This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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After several feature-length documentaries (Elvis: That's The Way It Is, Soul to Soul), filmmaker Denis Sanders returned to...
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1973
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This documentary profiles the great American filmmaker John Ford (1895-1973). Among the films he directed were The Young...
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1971
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Director, Producer
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1966
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Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a...
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Director
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1965
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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Director, Producer
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1964
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John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the...
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Director, Producer
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1963
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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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...
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Director, Producer
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1962
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One of director John Ford's least characteristic films, it derives from the latter part of his career, when the director's...
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Director, Producer
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1961
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The first big budget Western to feature a black hero, this military courtroom drama from director John Ford starred his...
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Director, Producer
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1960
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Based on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General...
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Director
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1959
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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Director, Producer
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1958
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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Director, Producer
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1958
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To make the Rising of the Moon, American filmmaker John Ford returned to his Irish roots. An obscure and highly personal film...
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Director
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1957
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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Director
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1957
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If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle...
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Director
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1956
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Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister...
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Director
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1955
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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1955
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1955
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The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was...
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Director
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1953
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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Director, Producer
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1953
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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Director, Producer
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1952
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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Director
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1952
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With This is Korea!, filmmaker John Ford returned to the wartime-documentary genre he'd deployed so well in the 1940s....
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Director
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1951
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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Director
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1950
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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...
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Director, Producer
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1950
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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1950
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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...
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Director, Producer
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1949
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Producer
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1949
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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...
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Director, Producer
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1948
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Director, Producer
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1948
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Director, Producer
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1948
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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...
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Director
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1946
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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Director, Producer
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1945
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Produced on behalf of the U.S. government, December 7th is just as slick and professional as any of director John Ford's...
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Director
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1943
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This is a restored, 82-minute version of 1943's December 7th, originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy to document the events...
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Director
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1943
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This 41-minute wartime documentary was a joint effort of the Women's Army Corps and the U.S. Signal Corps. Lensed in...
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Director
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1943
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1942
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1941
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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Director
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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Director, Producer
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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Director
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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Director
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1939
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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Director
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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Director
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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1937
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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Director
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1936
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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1936
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1936
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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Director
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1935
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The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929,...
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1935
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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1934
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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....
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Director
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1934
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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1934
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John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which...
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Director
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1933
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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Director
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1933
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Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came...
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Director
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1932
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The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are...
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1932
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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Arguably John Ford's weakest film, The Brat was based on a popular 1917 stage play written by and starring Maude Fulton,...
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1931
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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1930
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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1930
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John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent...
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1930
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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1929
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One of the few pre-1930 John Ford films currently available, the part-talkie Salute was co-directed by Ford and David Butler....
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1929
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In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets...
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1929
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Long though lost, Four Sons reemerged in the 1960s, proving anew that the silent films of director John Ford were every bit...
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Director
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1928
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Long believed lost, this fascinating John Ford-directed silent film was rediscovered and restored in the early 1970s. Based...
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1928
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Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone...
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1928
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1928
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This long-lost John Ford production was based on The Snake's Wife, a story by Wallace Smith. The scene is a theatrical...
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1927
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Director
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1926
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Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1926
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Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the long-lost John Ford silent Shamrock Handicap begins in Ireland. Because he refuses to...
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1926
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John Ford directed this sentimental horse opera set among the racing crowd in Kentucky. Henry B. Walthall, of Griffith's...
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1925
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The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett)...
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1925
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Director John Ford was out of his element with this comedy, based on the hit Broadway play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon...
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1925
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Hearts of Oak is, alas, one of the many "lost" silent films of pantheon director John Ford. Filmed not long after Ford's epic...
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1924
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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1924
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Cowboy star Tom Mix takes a break from the far West to play a rancher headed for the far North in this action-adventure....
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1923
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While this isn't one of director John Ford's best early efforts, it does feature a thrilling storm and shipwreck. Gladys...
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1923
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The G. Marion Burton poem served as inspiration for several films (including the 1914 comic satire by Charles Chaplin), but...
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1923
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Ever-ebullient Shirley Mason is ideally cast in Little Miss Smiles. This is the story of a just-getting-by Jewish family in...
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1922
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For the first few decades of the twentieth century, films that carried the sentimental theme of a mother's love were almost...
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1922
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1921
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Director John Ford based this silent western on The Girl He Left Behind by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, turning it into a fine...
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1921
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With this picture, Western star Hoot Gibson graduated to full-length features. He plays Sandy Brouke, one of three...
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1921
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This picture was a departure, both for star Buck Jones and director John Ford (in those days known as Jack Ford). Instead of...
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1920
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1920
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1919
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When rancher Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey, in the recurring role he made famous) won't cooperate with a packers' trust,...
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1919
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This heartwarming Harry Carey Western was based on the story Three Godfathers by Peter B. Kyne, which appeared in the...
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1919
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Legendary director John Ford began his long, eventful screen career helming Harry Carey westerns for Universal. He got that...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1919
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After the father of Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey) is shot dead, His mother makes him promise to put down his guns. He agrees,...
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1919
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In this tale of the Canadian Northwest, Harry Carey plays Cheyenne Harry, who is on the lam after getting tangled up with...
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Director
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1919
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Ranch owner Cheynne Harry (Harry Carey) winds up romancing Easterner Aileen Judson-Brown (Neva Gerber) because of an...
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1919
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Bret Harte's story gets an unusual adaptation in the hands of director John Ford (in the days when he was known as Jack Ford)...
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1919
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Harry Carey returned in his traditional role of "Cheyenne Harry" in this early John Ford effort. Here Cheyenne Harry is in...
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Director
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1918
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Most moviegoers tend to associate Francis Ford with the "loveable drunk" characterizations he essayed for his director...
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1918
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Based on a novel, Lin McLean, by Western writer Owen Wister, this Harry Carey feature was one of John Ford's early directoral...
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1918
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The Scarlet Drop was one of John Ford's seven directorial efforts for the year 1918 -- none of which, alas, seem to have...
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1918
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Bucking Broadway was John Ford's eighth feature film. Harry Carey, who starred in most of Ford's earliest productions, is...
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1918
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John Ford's fourteenth film is a fast-paced Harry Carey western vehicle featuring Carey as his popular Cheyenne Harry hero....
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1918
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This Western was one of the early collaborations between actor Harry Carey and John Ford, then a fledgling director. Cheyenne...
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1917
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1917
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John Ford -- then billed as Jack Ford -- had recently begun directing his own features when he made this Western with Harry...
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1917
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1917
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John Ford hadn't quite yet gotten his directorial career off the ground when he starred in this melodrama. He plays...
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1917
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1917
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1915
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1915
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1915
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First Assistant Director
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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1914
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