Direction: John Ford

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with his mother (Jane Darwell) and the rest of the family...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · James Stewart · Vera Miles · Lee Marvin

Synopsis Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters the truth about how he came to be known as...

Direction John Ford

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp

Synopsis This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Barry Fitzgerald · Ward Bond

Synopsis John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Natalie Wood · Jeffrey Hunter · Ward Bond

Synopsis The Searchers (1956) follows Ethan Edwards, a hardened Civil War veteran, who returns to his brother's Texas ranch. After a Comanche raid leaves his family dead and his niece Debbie abducted, Ethan embarks on a relentless years-long quest to find...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Linda Darnell · Victor Mature · Walter Brennan

Synopsis In My Darling Clementine (1946), Wyatt Earp becomes the marshal of Tombstone after his brother is killed in a cattle dispute. Determined to bring justice, he forms an uneasy alliance with Doc Holliday, a troubled gambler and gunslinger. As tensions...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Thomas Mitchell · Andy Devine

Synopsis Stagecoach (1939) follows a diverse group of passengers traveling by stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory in the Wild West. Among them are a pregnant woman, a fugitive, a gambler, a drunken doctor, and a prostitute shunned by society. As they...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · John Wayne · Shirley Temple · Pedro Armendáriz

Synopsis In Fort Apache (1948), a rigid and ambitious Colonel takes command of a remote U.S. Cavalry outpost, clashing with his seasoned Captain over tactics and respect for the local Native American tribe. As tensions rise, the Colonel's stubbornness leads to...

Direction John Ford

Cast Victor McLaglen · Heather Angel · Preston Foster · Margot Grahame

Synopsis A brutish but well-meaning Irishman, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), informs on his best friend Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who is a member of the Irish Republican Army, in order to collect the reward of £20 and sail to America with...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · William Holden · Constance Towers · Althea Gibson

Synopsis A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard...

Direction John Ford

Cast Spencer Tracy · Jeffrey Hunter · Dianne Foster · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Joanne Dru · John Agar · Ben Johnson

Synopsis In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), aging Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles prepares for retirement amidst rising tensions with Native American tribes. Tasked with one final mission, he must escort his commanding officer's wife and niece to safety while preventing...

Direction John Ford

Cast Woody Strode · Jeffrey Hunter · Constance Towers · Billie Burke

Synopsis Sergeant Rutledge (1960) follows Braxton Rutledge, a respected Black cavalry sergeant accused of assaulting and murdering a white officer's daughter in 1880s Arizona. As his court-martial unfolds, flashbacks reveal Rutledge's loyalty and heroism within the 9th Cavalry, an all-Black regiment....

Direction John Ford

Cast Margaret Mann · James Hall · Charles Morton · Ralph Bushman

Synopsis A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.

Direction John Ford

Cast James Stewart · Richard Widmark · Shirley Jones · Linda Cristal

Synopsis Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Alice Brady · Marjorie Weaver · Arleen Whelan

Synopsis John Ford's film on the early career of Abraham Lincoln, which centers on an apocryphal murder trial, impressed even the great Sergei Eisenstein. This biography provides a glimpse into the fascinating life Abraham Lincoln led before he became a politician,...

Direction John Ford

Cast Anne Bancroft · Margaret Leighton · Sue Lyon · Flora Robson

Synopsis China, 1935. Seven women staffing an isolated Christian mission fight to survive a bandit attack. John Ford's last movie.

Direction John Ford

Cast Charles Winninger · Arleen Whelan · John Russell · Stepin Fetchit

Synopsis John Ford's remake of his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle, JUDGE PRIEST, combines three Irvin S. Cobb stories about the kindly Kentucky magistrate William Priest, played by Charles Winninger. Set in 1905 Kentucky, it focuses on the judge's battle for reelection...

Direction John Ford

Cast George O'Brien · Olive Borden · Lou Tellegen · Tom Santschi

Synopsis Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Direction John Ford

Cast George O'Brien · Madge Bellamy · Charles Edward Bull · Will Walling

Synopsis The Iron Horse was John Ford's 50th film and remains his most celebrated of the silent era. Its theme of enterprise and achievement, its open-air locations and setting in a vigorous and pioneering past proved just the subject to stimulate...