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Tag: John Ford

  • The Searchers

    It’s no surprise that the AFI’s choice of the greatest western of all time is a John Ford film featuring John Wayne. To those who grew up watching “old-er West” Westerns, though, the relatively late setting of The Searchers makes for a different feel. It’s post-Civil War here, set in Texas rather than the Old…

  • Young Mr. Lincoln

    Most film protagonists, especially of the sort with which viewers are supposed to sympathize, are neither morally perfect nor totally evil. Exceptions tend to fit into the former category, however, as is the case with John Ford’s film Young Mr. Lincoln. It’s the sort of film that a stranger to the planet Earth might watch…