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 Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a case-hardened Civil War veteran, returns to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise a posse to run down the Comanche who have stolen...

Direction John Ford

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

Synopsis Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Tombstone with his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James (Don Garner), planning to sell their cattle and settle down as gentlemen farmers. Yet...

Direction John Ford

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

Synopsis A stagecoach is set to leave Tonto, New Mexico, for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (Claire Trevor) is a woman with a scandalous past who has been driven out of town...

Direction John Ford

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

Synopsis In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully...

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 Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

Direction John Ford

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

Synopsis Circumstantial evidence suggests a first sergeant in a black cavalry regiment has raped and murdered a white girl then killed his commanding officer. When he makes the case look even worse by deserting, an old lieutenant friend is sent to...

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...