AMERICAN MASTERS: JOHN FORD / JOHN WAYNE - THE FILMMAKER AND THE LEGEND
American Masters. John Ford / John Wayne is about the intriguing relationship between John Ford and John Wayne - a collaboration that yielded 14 movies, including such classics as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Quiet Man. In this no-holds-barred documentary of the kind Ford would have admired, the focus is largely on the director, who discovered Wayne but in later years saw the balance of power shift to the star. Director Sam Pollard remembers the first John Ford/John Wayne film he ever saw: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which he watched in 1962 at a theater in Harlem along with his brother, sister, and uncle Sammie. «What stands out in my mind is the Paramount logo, the music, and Lee Marvin's first words in the movie, Stand and Deliver. It was, for me, the magic of movies, being in a dark theater, transported to the world of the West - what my dad used to call shoot-'em-ups.»
- Peter Bogdanovich
- John Ford (Archivmaterial)
- John Wayne (Archivmaterial)
- Scott Eyman
- Joseph McBride
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- Kenneth Bowser
- Michael Chin
- Jefferson Miller
- Charles Tomaras
- Steven Wechsler
- Thomas Wagner
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