Up the River

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, William Collier Sr., Joan Marie Lawes

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1930

Two prisoners, Saint Louis and Dannemora Dan, escape during a theatrical production in order to go to the aid of Steve, a former prisoner whose past is about to be exposed by the man who framed Judy unless Steve agrees to help him commit another crime.

 

Rio Grande

Genres: Romance, Western

Starring: John Wayne, Alberto Morin, Harry Carey Jr., Ben Johnson, Maureen O'Hara, J. Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1950

Rio Grande takes place after the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches. Union officer Kirby Yorke is in charge of an outpost on the Rio Grande in which he is in charge of training of new recruits one of which is his son whom he hasn't seen in 15 years. He whips him into shape to take on the Apaches but not before his mother shows up to take him out of there.The decision to leave is left up to Trooper Yorke who decides to stay and fight. Through it all Kirby and Kathleen though separated for years fall back into love and decide that it's time to give it another try. But Yorke faces his toughest battle when his uno...

 

Stagecoach

Genres: Action, Romance, Drama

Starring: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Tim Holt, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1939

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A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.

 

How the West Was Won

Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama

Starring: Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, James Stewart, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark

Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway

Country: USA

Year: 1962

Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joi...

 

Two Rode Together

Genres: Western

Starring: Shirley Jones, James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Andy Devine, John McIntire, Paul Birch, Willis Bouchey

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1961

The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic.

 

Wee Willie Winkie

Genres: Adventure, Family

Starring: Gavin Muir, Cesar Romero, C. Aubrey Smith, Victor McLaglen, Shirley Temple, Lionel Pape, Michael Whalen

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1937

Cherubic, adorable, and precocious Priscilla Williams lives in Colonial India with her dad, a Colonel, and mom, Joyce. She is permitted to mingle with the soldiers. One day she befriends an Indian by the name of Khoda Khan, who in turn tells her about a prisoner named Mohammaudin. She meets with this prisoner, and finds him quite approachable and friendly. Then Mohammaudin breaks out, and joins a band of militants who are all set to attack the British forces. Fearing loss of lives, Priscilla sneaks into the camp of this band, locates Mohammaudin, who is their leader, and attempts to try and talk him out of attacking the British. She does not ...

 

How Green Was My Valley

Genres: Family, Drama

Starring: Roddy McDowall, Patric Knowles, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Frederick Worlock, Walter Pidgeon, Morton Lowry

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1941

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental view of pre-union miners' lives.

 

Mogambo

Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama

Starring: Clark Gable, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea, Ava Gardner, Donald Sinden, Grace Kelly, Philip Stainton

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1953

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

 

The Grapes of Wrath

Genres: Drama

Starring: John Qualen, O.Z. Whitehead, Darryl Hickman, Eddie Quillan, John Carradine, Henry Fonda, Charley Grapewin

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1940

Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and dispossessed farmers migrate westward to California. After terrible trials en route they become little more than slave labor. Among the throng are the Joads who refuse to knuckle under.

 

7 Women

Genres: Drama

Starring: Betty Field, Woody Strode, Sue Lyon, Eddie Albert, Anne Bancroft, Flora Robson, Mike Mazurki

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1966

In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark, Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British mission, Charles Pather, a teacher at the mission and his pregnant wife Florrie. When Dr. D.R. Cartwright arrives, she agrees to sacrifice herself to the Tunga Khan in exchange for his letting the ladies go free.

 

Mary of Scotland

Genres: Romance, Drama, History

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Barrat, Alan Mowbray, John Carradine, Frieda Inescort, Donald Crisp, Fredric March

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1936

Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to rule as queen, to the chagrin of Elizabeth I of England who finds her a dangerous rival. There is much ado over whom Mary shall marry; to her later regret, she picks effete Lord Darnley over the strong but unpopular Earl of Bothwell. A palace coup leads to civil war and house arrest for Mary; she escapes and flees to England, where a worse fate awaits her.

 

Doctor Bull

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Andy Devine, Tempe Pigott, Will Rogers, Vera Allen, Marian Nixon, Howard Lally, Berton Churchill

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1933

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 of typhoid which the doctor is slow in reacting to, it all comes to a head. The townspeople hold an emergency meeting and decide to give Dr. Bull the sack and bring in a new doctor. Dr. Bull must find a way to save his job, his reputation, and a young man's life, whom all other practitioners have written off as a permanent invalid.

 

The Lost Patrol

Genres: Adventure, War

Starring: Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Douglas Walton, Billy Bevan, Wallace Ford, Boris Karloff, Victor McLaglen

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1934

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 bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awake the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.

 

Four Sons

Genres: Drama

Starring: Frank Reicher, James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Ralph Bushman, George Meeker, June Collyer

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1928

In Burgendorf, Bavaria, Mother Bernle has four sons. Franz is in the army, Johann works at the forge, Andreas tends the sheep. Joseph is riding a hay wagon with a pretty girl when some of the hay falls off, landing on the fearsome Maj. Von Stomm. Joseph gets a slap from the major... The jovial postman has brought a letter from America. Joseph has the offer of a job in the States. But getting there is so expensive... It's Mother Bernle's birthday and most of the town gathers for the dancing. Mother gives Joseph the money she has secreted away. He leaves for the USA... It is "Der Tag", The Day when war is declared. Franz and Johann are excited ...

 

The Informer

Genres: Drama

Starring: Joe Sawyer, Heather Angel, Francis Ford, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor, Donald Meek, Victor McLaglen

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1935

Dublin, 1922. Gypo Nolan, strong but none too bright, has been ousted from the rebel organization and is starving. When he finds that his equally destitute sweetheart Katie has been reduced to prostitution, he succumbs to temptation and betrays his former comrade Frankie to the British authorities for a 20 pound reward. In the course of one gloomy, foggy night, guilt and retribution inexorably close in...

 

Young Mr. Lincoln

Genres: Drama

Starring: Ward Bond, Eddie Quillan, Henry Fonda, Donald Meek, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1939

Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl, suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann, courts his future wife Mary Todd, and agrees to go into politics.

 

Cheyenne Autumn

Genres: History, Western

Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Patrick Wayne, John Carradine, Victor Jory

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1964

When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse then it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds. US Cavalry Capt. Thomas Archer is charged with their retrieval, but during the hunt grows to respect their noble courage, and decides to help them.

 

What Price Glory

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Starring: Craig Hill, Robert Wagner, James Gleason, Wally Vernon, William Demarest, Henri Letondal, Max Showalter

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1952

In 1918 France, Captain Flagg commands a disreputable company of Marines; his new top sergeant is his old friendly enemy, Quirt. The two men become rivals for the favors of fair innkeeper's daughter Charmaine, but the rivalry goes into reverse when Charmaine proves to be angling for a husband. When the company is ordered to the front, this comedy interlude gives way to the grim realities of war.

 

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Genres: Drama, History, Biography

Starring: Francis McDonald, Paul Fix, John Carradine, John McGuire, Francis Ford, Gloria Stuart, Warner Baxter

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1936

A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door. Mudd has no idea that the president is dead and that he is treating his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. But that doesn't save him when the army posse searching for Booth finds evidence that Booth has been to the doctor's house. Dr. Mudd is arrested for complicity and sentenced to life imprisonment, to be served in the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas.

 

Hangman's House

Genres: Drama

Starring: June Collyer, Earle Foxe, Victor McLaglen, Larry Kent, Hobart Bosworth

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Year: 1928

Set in Ireland and notable today as the first movie in which John Wayne is clearly visible, a spectator at the steeplechase. He knocks the fence down and leads the other spectators toward the winning horse.