Search results for "John Ford"
The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright
IMDb: 6.9
102

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Mogambo

Mogambo

Mogambo
IMDb: 6.6
116

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda.

What Price Glory

What Price Glory

What Price Glory
IMDb: 6.1
110

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
IMDb: 7.7
129

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home
IMDb: 6.4
82

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in…

Genre: Comedy, War
Wagon Master

Wagon Master

Wagon Master
IMDb: 7.1
86

Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.

Rio Grande

Rio Grande

Rio Grande
IMDb: 7
105

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops…

Genre: Western
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
IMDb: 7.2
104

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his…

Genre: Western
Fort Apache

Fort Apache

Fort Apache
IMDb: 7.4
128

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form…

Genre: Western
3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers
IMDb: 7
106

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own…

Genre: Western
The Fugitive

The Fugitive

The Fugitive
IMDb: 6.3
100

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state’s last remaining priest.

Genre: Drama
My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine
IMDb: 7.7
97

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take…

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
IMDb: 7.2
135

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. “Rusty” Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan…

Genre: Drama, War
December 7th

December 7th

December 7th
IMDb: 6.1
32

“Docudrama” about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to…

Genre: Action, History, War
Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
IMDb: 6.4
84

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley
IMDb: 7.7
118

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Genre: Drama
The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home
IMDb: 6.9
105

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays.

Genre: Drama, War
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1
129

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s…

Genre: Drama
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln
IMDb: 7.5
100

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,…

Genre: Drama, History
Stagecoach

Stagecoach

Stagecoach
IMDb: 7.8
96

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk
IMDb: 7
100

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Four Men and a Prayer

Four Men and a Prayer

Four Men and a Prayer
IMDb: 6.1
85

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie
IMDb: 6.9
100

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.

Genre: Adventure, Family
The Hurricane

The Hurricane

The Hurricane
IMDb: 7.1
104

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he’s unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all…

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island
IMDb: 7.2
93

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford’s Theatre in…

Genre: Drama, History
Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland
IMDb: 6.3
123

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking
IMDb: 7.2
93

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend
IMDb: 6.9
81

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Informer

The Informer

The Informer
IMDb: 7.4
91

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The World Moves On

The World Moves On

The World Moves On
IMDb: 5.9
104

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in…

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol
IMDb: 6.8
73

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen…

Genre: Action, War
Judge Priest

Judge Priest

Judge Priest
IMDb: 6.2
80

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage
IMDb: 7.2
96

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Doctor Bull

Doctor Bull

Doctor Bull
IMDb: 6.4
79

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen’s novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Flesh

Flesh

Flesh
IMDb: 6.5
96

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Seas Beneath

Seas Beneath

Seas Beneath
IMDb: 5.9
90

In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. “Mystery Ship,” sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Black Watch

The Black Watch

The Black Watch
IMDb: 5.6
92

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Riley the Cop

Riley the Cop

Riley the Cop
IMDb: 5.9
68

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

Genre: Comedy
Four Sons

Four Sons

Four Sons
IMDb: 7.2
96

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film…

Genre: Drama, War
3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men
IMDb: 7.5
92

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Genre: Romance, Western