Searching for John Ford

  • Searching for John Ford
    By Joseph McBride

    The nickname was explained in Michael J. Lafavore, "John Ford: The Quiet Man from Portland," Maine Life, ... and in M&W JF's remark "I didn't tell him anything' was made to Henry Fonda on The American West of John Ford (CBS-TV, 1971).

  • Searching for John Ford
    By Joseph McBride

    Ford came up with the role of Buttons, a factotum occupying an indispensable place in Earp's life much like Jeff Poindexter's with Judge Priest. Among other duties, Buttons was to have brought Earp his chair so the marshal could await ...

  • Searching For John Ford: A Life
    By Joseph McBride

    The definitive biography of the great, dark cinematic poet of the American West, the troubled director of Stagecoach, Red River, and scores of other Hollywood classics.

  • Searching for John Ford
    By Joseph McBride

    He hid his sensitivity beneath a hard-drinking, exaggeratedly Irish exterior, but Joseph McBride's biography succeeds in penetrating Ford's habitual reticence and sheds light upon previously unknown aspects of his professional endeavours.

  • Searching for John Ford: A Biography
    By Joseph McBride

    Searching for John Ford: A Biography

  • Searching for John Ford
    By Joseph McBride

    Searching for John Ford