John Ford Collection

Film Description

Features the John Ford films The Grapes of Wrath (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946) and Horse Soldiers (1959).

The Grapes of Wrath is Ford's adaptation of John Steinbeck's Depression-era novel, in which thousands leave the Oklahoma dust bowl to move to the promised land of California, not counting on the resentment they find when they arrive there. Henry Fonda takes the lead role of Tom Joad.

A classic John Ford western, My Darling Clementine recounts the events leading up to and including the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Henry Fonda stars as Wyatt Earp, who accepts the offer of marshal of Tombstone after his brother is killed and his cattle stolen. Despite Wyatt's tense first encounter with melancholy gambler and gunslinger Doc Holliday (Victor Mature), a wary friendship grows between the two men, which is soon complicated by the arrival of Doc's former love, the demure Clementine Carter.

In Horse Soldiers, John Wayne plays a hardened Union colonel who embarks on a dangerous mission to sabotage a railroad line. Saddled with a quarrelsome doctor and a Southern belle, the colonel drives his troops deep into rebel territory.

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• Classic Movies / Drama
• Classic Movies / Westerns