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[Johann]

WAGON MASTER (1950)


Nobody makes a western like John Ford.

Here the wagon master is the star, and two of them get hired by a Mormon wagon train headed west to San Juan.
They encounter a travelling medicine show troupe down on their luck and the dastardly Clegg boys, who are wanted men.
They also encounter some Navajo Injuns and this western is pretty great.
Old-Timey songs, gunfights, chuckwagons, romance/a-courtin' & peril- what more do you need?
Starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond.

[Johann]

3 GODFATHERS (1948)


This was a surprising movie from John Ford.
Robert, William and Pedro are three outlaws on the run in the desert, and they come across a woman about to give birth.
They don't know what to do, but they help her nonetheless, as mid-wives, lullaby singers and promising her to be Godfather to the infant.
The harsh desert is a character itself, like it was in Lawrence of Arabia! Two of the men die in their trek across it, and Robert ("BOB"-played by John Wayne)
ends up being Biblically Redeemed by protecting the baby until he reaches safety.
Great movie from John Ford, one I'd never seen and wasn't expecting.

[Johann]

SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949)




This is a great movie, and a showcase for John Wayne.
He plays Captain Nathan Brittles, commander of a U.S. Calvary troop, post-Custer's Last Stand.
This is a very manly movie and Wayne plays his role to the hilt.
There's a sub-plot of romance between two soldiers and a girl who wears a yellow ribbon in her hair.
The cinematography is great, showing Monument Valley in all it's glory.
I'd never seen this one before, and it gets high marks. Nice little military movie. (with more Indians!)