The Shamrock Handicap

THE SHAMROCK HANDICAP is a horse racing film, set in Ireland and the United States. Even at this early date, Ford is oriented to an ethnographic reconstruction of folk life styles and customs. He is recreating Ireland. Two years later, in FOUR SONS, Ford is showing us Bavaria. Ford will follow this throughout his entire career. There is a similar approach in such later works as HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY - a romantic-nostalgic dedication to his parent’s homeland.

With BUCKING BROADWAY