The American West of John Ford (1971)
December 5, 1971Release Date
The American West of John Ford (1971)
December 5, 1971Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
John Ford
Self
John Wayne
Self - Narrator
James Stewart
Self - Narrator
Henry Fonda
Self - Narrator
Andy Devine
Self
David Gorton
Production Assistant
Olive Carey
Actress 'The Searchers'
Jack Marshall
Music Director
Jeffrey Hunter
Actor 'The Searchers'
John Qualen
Actor 'The Searchers'
Mickey Simpson
Acror 'My Darling Clementine'
Glase Lohman
Producer
Bob Banner
Executive Producer
Pedro Armendáriz
Actor 'Fort Apache'
Bruce Bisenz
Sound
Denis Sanders
Director
David H. Vowell
Writer
Bob Collins
Director of Photography
Dan Ford
Writer
Daniel Sargent Ford
Producer
Tom Egan
Producer
Suzy O'Connell
Associate Producer
Keith M. Olson
Editor / Camera Operator
Britt Lomond
Producer
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The American West of John Ford is a 1971 television special about movie director John Ford's career narrated by John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda. Footage of Wayne, Stewart, and Fonda talking with the aging Ford are interspersed with an array of clips from Ford's films spanning more than five decades, including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, and Stagecoach, each of which is dealt with at some length.
The section on My Darling Clementine features Fonda and Stewart, both of whom played Wyatt Earp in Ford films, interviewing Ford about the director's claim that Earp himself had explained the strategy and chronology of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral to Ford and Harry Carey, complete with a sketched diagram, decades before Ford filmed a version of the melee with Fonda as Earp. Stewart's memorable poker scene as Earp in Cheyenne Autumn, which had nothing to do with the rest of the movie and has frequently been cut by exhibitors and television stations, is also discussed and illustrated with a clip.
The hour long special was telecast on December 5, 1971 over the CBS television network. The show sometimes appears on Hulu under the title The Great American West of John Ford. The documentary also briefly features a whip-cracking Andy Devine during a comedic sequence with Wayne and Ford filmed in Monument Valley.