Direction: John Ford

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Ford. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Mogambo

1953 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Grace Kelly · Donald Sinden

Plot Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit directed by Victor Fleming. After a...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · Movie · 160 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Widmark · Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Sal Mineo

Plot Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Rio Grande

1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Ben Johnson · Chill Wills

Plot The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Tobacco Road

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The Rising of the Moon

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · Ireland

Direction John Ford

Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen Connell · Eileen Crowe · Cyril Cusack

Plot Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow...

7.1

943 votes

7.1

943 votes

Pilgrimage

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henrietta Crosman · Heather Angel · Norman Foster · Lucille La Verne

Plot Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) fears being abandoned by her son Jim (Norman Foster), and she doesn't approve of his romance with Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon). When Hannah discovers that Jim...

7.1

250 votes

7.1

250 votes

Wagon Master

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Ben Johnson · Joanne Dru · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond

Plot As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Wings of Eagles

1957 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Dan Dailey · Ward Bond

Plot A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

How the West Was Won

1962 · Movie · 164 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe

Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck

Plot The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal,...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Warner Baxter · Gloria Stuart · Joyce Kay · Claude Gillingwater

Plot The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.

7.0

693 votes

7.0

693 votes

The Long Gray Line

1955 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen O'Hara · Ward Bond · Donald Crisp

Plot The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Three Godfathers (3 Godfathers)

1948 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Pedro Armendáriz · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond

Plot Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Donovan's Reef

1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Lee Marvin · Elizabeth Allen · Jack Warden

Plot A war veteran in the South Seas tries to salvage a buddy''s reputation when the man''s daughter comes calling.

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

The Whole Town's Talking

1935 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron

Plot Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is...

6.8

521 votes

6.8

521 votes

The Hurricane

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Ford · Stuart Heisler

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Jon Hall · Mary Astor · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed...

6.8

747 votes

6.8

747 votes

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine

Plot In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Doctor Bull

1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Will Rogers · Vera Allen · Marian Nixon · Howard Lally

Plot Dr. Bull is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with the widow Janet Cardmaker is creating waves in the small town where he practices. When there is a mysterious outbreak...

6.8

243 votes

6.8

243 votes

The Lost Patrol

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Victor McLaglen · Boris Karloff · Wallace Ford · Reginald Denny

Plot A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Long Voyage Home

1940 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond

Plot Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

They Were Expendable

1945 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Robert Montgomery · John Wayne · Donna Reed · Ward Bond

Plot In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the members of a PT boat squadron patrol Philippine waters and attack Japanese ships. The PT boat initially had little...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes