Category Archives: John Ford

Scraps: “something big” (1971)

                    “something big”  (1971)     Joe Baker (Dean Martin) is an outlaw with a desire to do “something big” before returning to a Pennsylvania life of domesticity with his Scottish … Continue reading

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Revisit: Tumble in the Jungle: “Mogambo” (1953)

                     “Mogambo”  (1953) (Originally posted on 5/31/2012)      What is a women’s picture? In recent years this has been a more difficult concept to distinguish, being that the increased crudity of … Continue reading

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You Can’t Go Homestead Again: Notes on Western Revisionism

     The dirty little secret about revisionism is that it rarely provides the intended setting for demythologizing without creating, not a revealing truth, but a substitute mythology.       The move toward revisionism in the western film genre is generally … Continue reading

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