This documentary looks at John Ford's efforts to create an idealized version of his homeland as the setting for his classic...
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2010
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The fabulous Maureen O'Hara delivers another stunning performance in this made-for-TV movie, based on Todd F. Cope's short...
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Helen Parker
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2000
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Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Cab to Canada stars the indomitable Maureen O'Hara as Katherine Eure, a wealthy and...
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Katherine Eure
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1998
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1996
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Writer-director Chris Columbus mines Paddy Chaveysky's Marty for this bittersweet comedy about a lonely 38-year old Chicago...
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Rose Muldoon
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1991
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The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949....
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Ruth Tiflin
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1973
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of John Ford. Included are excerpts from:...
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1973
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Martha McCandles
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1971
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In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled, estranged son, a philosophy professor. The chance...
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Elsie Waltz
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1970
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Andrew V. McLaglen directs the Western drama The Rare Breed, based on the real-life introduction of English Hereford cattle...
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Martha Evans
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1966
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Originally released in Great Britain as The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, this film is not a wartime epic but a cozy domestic...
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Moira
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1965
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons,...
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Olivia Spencer
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1963
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George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the territory,...
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Katherine McLintock
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1963
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Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the...
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Peggy Hobbs
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1962
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We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet...
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Maggie McKendrick
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1961
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The first half of this 1961 Walt Disney Presents episode shows the work that went behind the delightful animated opening...
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Maggie McKendrick
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1961
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Sam Peckinpah's first feature as director is this modest Western, taking place in the late 1860s. Yellowleg (Brian Keith), a...
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Kit Tilden
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1961
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Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling...
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Beatrice Evans
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1960
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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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Minnie Wead
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1957
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Filmed on location, Lisbon was the second directorial endeavor of actor Ray Milland. The story revolves around a...
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Sylvia Merrill
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1956
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This very lightweight comedy focuses on young orphan Willie Taylor (Tim Hovey). Upset with the prevarications of the adult...
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Joan Madison
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1956
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The exciting, metaphorical world of bull-fighting provides the setting for this dramatic tale of an aging toreador faced...
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Karen Harrison
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1955
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To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva...
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Lady Godiva
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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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Mary O'Donnell
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1955
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In this adventure, set in North Africa, a secret agent must find a band of smugglers. The man who recommended her for the...
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Joanna Dane
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1954
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Kate Maxwell
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1953
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War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s....
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Elaine Corwin
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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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Mary Kate Danaher
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1952
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Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler...
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Dell McGuire
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1952
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Spitfire Stevens
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1952
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At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by...
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Claire
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1951
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Tanya
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1951
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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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Mrs. Kathleen Yorke
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1950
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The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of...
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Countess D'Ameau
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1950
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Universal's Technicolor program westerns of the 1950s were among the best in the business. Comanche Territory stars...
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Katie
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1950
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Marian Washburn
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1949
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First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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Elizabeth Cooper
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1949
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The Anglo-American co-production Britannia Mews was released in the U.S. as The Affairs of Adelaide, then reissued as...
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Adelaide Culver
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1949
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Maureen O'Hara plays the daughter of a Sheikh who returns from being educated in London, only to find her father is dead and...
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Princess Marjan
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1949
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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Tacey
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1948
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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Shireen
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1947
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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Odalie d'Arceneaux
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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Doris Walker
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1947
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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Leslie Hale
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1947
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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Katherine Hilliard
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1946
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Julie
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1946
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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Francisca
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1945
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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Louise Cody
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1944
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Valentine
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1943
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Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
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Louise Martin
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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Toni Donne
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1943
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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Margaret Denby
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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Carolyn Bainbridge
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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Second Lt. Mary Carler
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1942
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One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly...
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Lolita
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1941
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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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Angharad Morgan
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1941
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A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's...
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Sidney Fairfield
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1940
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Judy O'Brien
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1940
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In this heartwarming drama, an orphaned 5-year old is sent to live with her cold-hearted aunt who keeps her around because...
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1940
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Esmeralda
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1939
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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Mary Yelland
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1939
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Filmed in 1938, My Irish Molly was released in US in 1940 to capitalize on the popularity of Maureen O'Hara. The actress...
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Eileen O'Shea
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1939
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This British musical comedy was designed as a vehicle for popular 1930s bandleader Ambrose, here cast as "himself". The plot,...
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1938
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