[3] March 15, 2012
The Wings of Eagles [4] is one of Ford’s oddest movies, one featuring a near-great performance from John Wayne but jam-packed with ambivalence.
[3] The Wings of Eagles [4] is one of Ford’s oddest movies, one featuring a near-great performance from John Wayne but jam-packed with ambivalence.
[6] They Were Expendable [7] is a movie about defeat. Or, rather, the glory that may be found in defeat. Based on a non-fiction book by William L. White, it’s a grim, sad yarn, but a strangely uplifting one.
[9] Mogambo [10] was a very big deal when it was released in 1953. This African adventure made $5.2 million and turned newcomer Grace Kelly into a major star.
[12] If How Green Was My Valley [13] isn’t John Ford’s [14] finest film, it’s certainly the most honored. Nominated in 1941 for 10 Oscars, it won five - in a year when Citizen Kane was up for most of the same honors.
[16] In 1936 director John Ford [14] was sitting pretty in Hollywood. Now, he was told by Fox studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck he was being entrusted with the hottest star on the lot and Hollywood’s biggest box-office attraction: 8-year-old Shirley Temple [17].
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-wings-eagles-1957
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22John+Ford%22+title:%22The+Wings+of+Eagles%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16473#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-they-were-expendable-1945
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22John+Ford%22+title:%22They+Were+Expendable%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-they-were-expendable-1945#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-mogambo-1953
[10] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046085/
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16324#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-how-green-was-my-valley-1941
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22John+Ford%22+title:%22How+Green+Was+My+Valley%22
[14] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406/
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-how-green-was-my-valley-1941#comments
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-wee-willie-winkie-1937
[17] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000073/
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16255#comment-form
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=25
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=22
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=23
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=24
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=27
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=28
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=29
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=30
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41