John Ford — Director (18)
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Bucking Broadway (1917) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bucking Broadway
director: John Ford actor: Harry Carey / Molly Malone …
other title: All'assalto del viale / A l'assaut du boulevard …
On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.
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Hell Bent (1918) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hell Bent
director: John Ford actor: Harry Carey / Duke R. Lee …
other title: Du sang dans la prairie / El barranco del diablo …
A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
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Flesh (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Flesh
director: John Ford actor: Wallace Beery / Ricardo Cortez …
other title: Carne / Ring frei für die Liebe …
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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The Rising of the Moon (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Rising of the Moon
director: John Ford actor: Tyrone Power / Noel Purcell …
other title: Storie irlandesi / Quand se lève la lune …
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 an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
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Gideon's Day (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Gideon's Day
director: John Ford actor: Jack Hawkins / Anna Lee …
other title: 24 ore a Scotland Yard / Chefinspektor Gideon …
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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The Last Hurrah (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Last Hurrah
director: John Ford actor: Spencer Tracy / Jeffrey Hunter …
other title: L'ultimo urrà / O Último Hurrah …
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Whole Town's Talking
director: John Ford actor: Edward G. Robinson / Jean Arthur …
other title: Tutta la città ne parla / Stadtgespräch …
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 fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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The Long Gray Line (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Long Gray Line
director: John Ford actor: Tyrone Power / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: La lunga linea grigia / Mit Leib und Seele …
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 includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
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Kentucky Pride (1925) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Kentucky Pride
director: John Ford actor: Gertrude Astor / J. Farrell MacDonald …
other title: Sangre de pista / La Fille de Négofol
This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes as her breeder (Henry B. Walthall) is forced to sell her when he loses everything in a poker game. Several of the era’s most famous racehorses make appearances, including the legendary champion thoroughbred Man o’ War.