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Print the legend the life and times of John Ford

By Scott , Eyman

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2015
ISBN
0684811618, 9781451685114, 9780684811611, 1451685114, 9781476797724, 1476797722
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7372064 bytes)
Edition
First paperback edition
Pages
621 Seiten Illustrationen\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This line comes from director John Ford's film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but it also serves as an epigram for the life of the legendary filmmaker. Through a career that spanned decades and included work on dozens of films — among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley — John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, there was at the same time a marked reticence when it came to revealing anything personal. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to let his films speak for him, and the message was always masculine,...

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