Showing posts with label John Ford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Ford. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

TCM salutes two of The Duke's greatest

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of their cable network, the folks over at Turner Classic Movies have come up with a list of the 15 most influential classic movies of all time. These are the films, TCM states, that "shaped the cinema and the audiences that viewed them." Two Westerns made the final cut -- and, not surprisingly, each one is a John Ford classic starring John Wayne: Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956). Good choices, pilgrims.



Monday, November 19, 2007

Them's fightin' words, pardner!

Brit film critic John Patterson argues: "[T]he Western per se -- the Western as a thriving movie genre -- is to all intents and purposes deader than Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Ford and Sam Peckinpah put together."