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Article: John Ford boxed sets reveal 2 sides to a legendary director.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2006
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Byline: Michael Wilmington
Jun. 16--John Ford, for many of us, was the great American movie director--because of his classic filmmaking gifts, but also because his movies are so powerfully and hauntingly about America. They reflect with such richness and lyric grandeur the dark and sunny sides of our national spirit and character. Watching one of Ford's great westerns--which often starred his friend John Wayne--we usually see a dream landscape fashioned from his favorite shooting location, Monument Valley in Arizona and Utah. "Stagecoach" (1939) was the first western he made there, and "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964) the last. But over the years the valley's mesas, ...
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