Tag: John Ford

My Darling Clementine Script

Script by:Stuart N. Lake (Novel), Sam Hellman (Screenstory), Samuel G. Engel (Screenplay), Winston Miller (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1946
IMDb:tt0038762

Plot:Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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Tobacco Road Script

Script by:Erskine Caldwell (Novel), Jack Kirkland (Theatre Play), Nunnally Johnson (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1941
IMDb:tt0034297

Plot:Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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The Informer Script

Script by:Liam O'Flaherty (Story), Dudley Nichols (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1935
IMDb:tt0026529

Plot:Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Quiet Man Script

Script by:Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay), Maurice Walsh (Story), John Ford (Writer)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1952
IMDb:tt0045061

Plot:A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
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Mister Roberts Script

Script by:Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay), Joshua Logan (Screenplay), Thomas Heggen (Theatre Play), Joshua Logan (Theatre Play), Thomas Heggen (Novel)
Directed by:John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0048380

Plot:Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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Drums Along the Mohawk Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Screenplay), Sonya Levien (Screenplay), Walter D. Edmonds (Novel)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0031252

Plot:Set in America's Colonial period, John Ford's adventure tale follows Gilbert (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) as they try to survive the rugged frontier. After their settlement is repeatedly attacked by Indians, the couple is taken in by a spinster (Edna May Oliver). Lana bears a son, while Gilbert heads off to fight the Indians and the British. He returns, wounded, to find his family once again under attack by the Indians.
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What Price Glory Script

Script by:Phoebe Ephron (Screenplay), Henry Ephron (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play), Laurence Stallings (Theatre Play)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1952
IMDb:tt0045323

Plot:Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
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Young Mr. Lincoln Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Writer)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0032155

Plot:In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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