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1.It's A Wonderful Life [1946] starring: James Stewart, Charles Lane, Charles Williams, Bob Scott, H.B. Warner directed by: Frank Capra November 10, 2008
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I'm one of the many people who get depressed around Christmas time, i get stressed out and just cant handle it. When i feel like giving in, i watch its a wonderful life. This film can bring me back from the brink of despair, and makes me remember what Christmas is actually about! Being with family, enjoying each others company. Its a truly amazing film, that really warms your heart. Any other humbugs out there like me, should watch this, and remember the true spirit of Christmas!

2.The Quiet Man (John Wayne) [1952] starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond directed by: John Ford June 05, 2006
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A mysterious yank (The Quiet Man) arrives on the train and asks for directions to Innisfree. This quiet man turns out to be returning to his home after a hard life in America. There he purchases his old home to the shegrim of the neighbor Red Will Danaher (Victor McLagen), who covets the house himself. We learn a few Irish no-nos; such as you do not play patty fingers with the holy water. I will not go through the whole story as it is fun to watch it unfold. However there is a good example of horse sense as the horse knows to stop at the pub for Michaeleen Oge Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald) whom has a very dry throat. The scenery gives the story a run for its money. Note the stars are always for content as different media is mixed in the reviews.

3.The Searchers [1956] starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond directed by: John Ford June 19, 2006
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It is hard to review a film that has been examined by critics in such detail over the years. Film is a very personal thing and it is for this reason I feel I should record my thoughts. My very first memories of film were of watching "The Searchers" as a small child many years ago. In particular I recall seeing John Wayne lifting a very young Natalie Wood up in that great purging of the dark side scene at the end of the film. I was mesmerised by the scenery and the great screen prescence of John Wayne, who strode the film like a colossus. A very dark colossus it has to be said. Does it still stand up under scrutiny after all these years. The answer is a resounding yes although I can see the small flaws now which through rose tinted spectacles I missed in the ... Read More:

4.It's A Wonderful Life [1946] starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers directed by: Frank Capra November 27, 2006
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Yes, it is a great life affirming movie with its heart firmly in the right place...BUT...personally I would have prefered not such a happy ending, or a very different kind of happy ending - I just feel that the miraculous turnaround of George's fortunes at the end, while rightly suggesting that all good deeds may be remembered, and returned in kind, missed a real chance to state that happiness didn't have to depend on material wealth at all - After all, when he was given his old life back, George's euphoric happiness was based soley upon his family and friends, regardless of his dire financial state! This was a real chance to bang the point home about the real dangers of capitalism, but it was totally spurned. Indeed, this ending almost suggested, after roundly ... Read More:

5.Fort Apache (John Wayne) [1948] starring: Henry Fonda, Guy Kibbee, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Irene Rich, John Wayne directed by: John Ford June 05, 2006
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This is the first film which uses the US Cavalry as the background/set (as much as Monumental Valley) for telling us a typical John Ford story, there are the values of decency and common sense and the very important sense of humor in one side and bigotry and stupidity in the other... and that on the same side (meaning life in the regiment which is a metaphor of a rigid society)... confronted against the Indians who as usual in early Ford films just plays the danger OUTSIDE... Filmed in black&white in the exceptional way of the master it has passed with honors the terrible true test of time and has become a classic. The script is what you can expect, but mainly is a confrontation between the martinet colonel (from the East) played convincingly by Henry ... Read More:

6.It Happened One Night [1934] starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Ward Bond, Alan Hale, Walter Connolly directed by: Frank Capra May 08, 2006
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Despite sweeping the oscars at the time, and being a real cinema goers favourite - it's not the best of Capra's by any means. The two leads are very good,(Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable). And there are some very funny scenes. But it just doesn't quite cut it against some of Capra's later and far superior work. I'd say that It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is by far Capra's best work. With Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) coming a close second. But it's also worth checking out the lesser known: You Can't Take It with You (1938) which is a great little film. As for this one - well it's okay. If you ignore some of the jaw droppingly daft bits. Perhaps it's worth it just to see the sparring of Gable and Colbert on screen. Who I ... Read More:

7.Wagon Master [1950] starring: Ben Johnson, Ward Bond, Harry Carey, Alan Mowbray, Charles Kemper directed by: John Ford May 05, 2008
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I was knocked out the first time I saw this movie about 7 years ago and with repeat viewings it becomes richer. I am so glad that it is out on DVD as I have drop-out on my VHS version now. Wagonmaster is a low key western with immense charm and it creates a sense of community as it takes you along. At times it moves as slowly as Ben Johnson talks, but this gives you time to concentrate on the collectively excellent performances and sublime cinematography. The Sons of the Pioneers music is appropriately used, unlike in Rio Grande where at times it is intrusive. During the scenes when the wagon train is searching for the next waterhole, the music and the cinematography come together in perfect unison and the film becomes art. I wish John Ford had ... Read More:

8.My Darling Clementine [1946] starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Linda Darnell directed by: John Ford February 27, 2006
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Here is a movie which practically hums with excellence, from the star performances of Henry Fonda, Victor Mature and Walter Brennan to the extraordinary craftsmanship of director John Ford. I've watched a lot of Ford movies; many I like and many I don't. My Darling Clementine is, in my view, Ford's most accomplished film. The movie may seem to be about a gun fight showdown, or about the wary relationship between Wyatt Earp and John Holliday, or about a shy romance between an upright man with little experience with love and a proper young woman who decides to be a school marm, or about honor and justice and retribution. It's all of this. Most of all, it's about how the west changed. Ford shows us not through big gestures and symbolic, obvious actions, but through the little ... Read More:

9.Rio Bravo [1959] starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan directed by: Howard Hawks June 01, 2006
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It had been a long time since I first watched this on TV when I picked up this DVD. Quite frankly, I think it's nowhere near as good as other reviewers here suggest. I'm in my 40's a grew up on films like this so it's not as if there's some sort of generational gap involved in me not rating it. First off, there is little or no chemistry between the leads. Dean Martin is likeable and I enjoyed his scenes most of all. Walter Brennan turns in his usual effective old-man performance. The Wayne-Dickinson romance is unconvincing and rather turns my stomach at the thought of it. He was not a credible romantic lead at this stage in his career. He looks like a somewhat fat old man in this film- and that hat! It's got to be the silliest looking hat in a cowboy film.... ... Read More:

10.The Searchers [1956] starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood directed by: John Ford June 01, 2006
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It is 1868, three years after the surrender of the Confederacy when Ethan Edwards, John Wayne, returns home to his brother's ranch in Northern Texas. Defeat in the war already seems to have left Ethan a bitter man. Although his family welcome him profusely you get the feeling that he doesn't seem to belong there. So why did he come back? Well there seems to be a certain chemistry between Ethan and his brother's wife! Within a day or so of his arrival, the ranch is visited by Texas Ranger Captain Clayton, Ward Bond, with the news that a Comanche murder party led by chief Scar, Henry Brandon, is in the territory and is threatening a neighbouring ranch. Most of the able-bodied men set out in pursuit of the renegades, leaving Ethan's brother guarding the ranch and his ... Read More:

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