(John Ford, 1946; Arrow Academy, PG, Blu-ray)
Astonishingly, this masterpiece starring Henry Fonda as the upright town-taming marshal Wyatt Earp, and culminating in the 1881 gunfight at the Ok Corral in Tombstone, was only Ford’s second western of the sound era (the first was Stagecoach in 1939) and the first he shot entirely among the now familiar sandstone buttes and mesas of Monument Valley, subsequently so closely associated with his world and its ethos that any other film-maker working there does so in a spirit of homage. It marks the director’s homecoming to Hollywood after distinguished war service.
Henry Fonda also returned from active service as a naval officer to play the part in the film, his fourth collaboration with Ford. Ford claimed to have known Earp (who died in 1929 shortly after spilling some dubious autobiographical beans to biographer Stuart Lake for the myth-making book Frontier Marshal), but it is in virtually every verifiable respect inaccurate.
Astonishingly, this masterpiece starring Henry Fonda as the upright town-taming marshal Wyatt Earp, and culminating in the 1881 gunfight at the Ok Corral in Tombstone, was only Ford’s second western of the sound era (the first was Stagecoach in 1939) and the first he shot entirely among the now familiar sandstone buttes and mesas of Monument Valley, subsequently so closely associated with his world and its ethos that any other film-maker working there does so in a spirit of homage. It marks the director’s homecoming to Hollywood after distinguished war service.
Henry Fonda also returned from active service as a naval officer to play the part in the film, his fourth collaboration with Ford. Ford claimed to have known Earp (who died in 1929 shortly after spilling some dubious autobiographical beans to biographer Stuart Lake for the myth-making book Frontier Marshal), but it is in virtually every verifiable respect inaccurate.
- 9/27/2015
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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