repulsion by john ford
A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. [48] Ford eventually rose to become a top adviser to OSS head William Joseph Donovan. Although it did far smaller business than most of his other films in this period, Ford cited Wagon Master as his personal favorite out of all his films, telling Peter Bogdanovich that it "came closest to what I had hoped to achieve".[64]. press. Unfortunately, it was a commercial flop, grossing only about half of its $2.3 million budget. Recent works about Ford's depictions of Native Americans have argued that contrary to popular belief, his Indian characters spanned a range of hostile to sympathetic images from The Iron Horse to Cheyenne Autumn. He is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as The Grapes of Wrath (1940). George A. Romero-Wikipedia. Ford's films, particularly the Westerns, express a deep aesthetic sensibility for the American past and the spirit of the frontier ... his compositions have a classic strength in which masses of people and their natural surroundings are beautifully juxtaposed, often in breathtaking long shots. [25] Despite the pressure to halt the production, studio boss William Fox finally backed Ford and allowed him to finish the picture and his gamble paid off handsomely—The Iron Horse became one of the top-grossing films of the decade, taking over US$2 million worldwide, against a budget of $280,000.[23]. However, its reputation has grown greatly over the intervening years—it was named the Greatest Western of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008 and also placed 12th on the institute's 2007 list of the Top 100 greatest movies of all time. Shot on location in Monument Valley, it tells of the embittered Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards who spends years tracking down his niece, kidnapped by Comanches as a young girl. Unusual for Ford, it was shot in continuity for the sake of the performances and he, therefore, exposed about four times as much film as he usually shot. 1. The Screen Directors Guild staged a tribute to Ford in October 1972, and in March 1973 the American Film Institute honored him with its first Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony which was telecast nationwide, with President Richard Nixon promoting Ford to full Admiral and presenting him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford Productions-Paramount, 1962) is frequently cited as the last great film of Ford's career. [101] When Dwight Eisenhower won the nomination, Ford wrote to Taft saying that like "a million other Americans, I am naturally bewildered and hurt by the outcome of the Republican Convention in Chicago. [citation needed] The film failed to recoup its costs, earning less than half ($100,000) its negative cost of just over $256,000 and it stirred up some controversy in Ireland. It reunited Ford with Henry Fonda (as Earp) and co-starred Victor Mature in one of his best roles[55] as the consumptive, Shakespeare-loving Doc Holliday, with Ward Bond and Tim Holt as the Earp brothers, Linda Darnell as sultry saloon girl Chihuahua, a strong performance by Walter Brennan (in a rare villainous role) as the venomous Old Man Clanton, with Jane Darwell and an early screen appearance by John Ireland as Billy Clanton. At this point, Ford rose to speak. [54], Ford's first postwar movie My Darling Clementine (Fox, 1946) was a romanticized retelling of the primal Western legend of Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Both of Ford's 1958 films were made for Columbia Pictures and both were significant departures from Ford's norm. It was a loose adaptation of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, which Ford had originally intended to make at Fox before the war, with Thomas Mitchell as the priest. It was a big box-office success, grossing $1.25 million in its first year in the US and earning Edna May Oliver a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress. In Hollywood these days, they don't stand behind a fella. Give the film as a gift Add to playlist; See the film page. Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries. Check out our gallery of the 2021 Oscar nominees in the leading and supporting acting categories, as the characters they so brilliantly played and in real life. In 1933, he returned to Fox for Pilgrimage and Doctor Bull, the first of his three films with Will Rogers. Rate This ShotReader Rating8 Votes4.2585Amazon iTunesCinematography by Gilbert Taylor Directed by Roman Polanski See IMDb for complete cast and crew information. Also in that year, Ford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. [4] His father, John Augustine, was born in Spiddal,[5] County Galway, Ireland, in 1854. It starred Victor McLaglen as The Sergeant—the role played by his brother Cyril McLaglen in the earlier version—with Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Alan Hale and Reginald Denny (who went on to found a company that made radio-controlled target aircraft during World War II). John Wayne's first appearance in Stagecoach). (1963) and Big Jake (1971). It also caused a rift between Ford and scriptwriter Dudley Nichols that brought about the end of their highly successful collaboration. Ford's next project, The Miracle of Merriford, was scrapped by MGM less than a week before shooting was to have begun. That specific issue may be more about men in general than just Michael's actions, as witnessed by Carol being agitated by hearing Helen and Michael's lovemaking, and she not being able to rebuff the advances effectively of a male suitor, Colin, who is infatuated with her. [49] In 1945, Ford executed affidavits testifying to the integrity of films taken to document conditions at Nazi concentration camps. By 1940 he was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost movie directors. Some passages … Set in the 1880s, it tells the story of an African-American cavalryman (played by Woody Strode) who is wrongfully accused of raping and murdering a white girl. It was a large, long and difficult production, filmed on location in the Sierra Nevada. [14] Despite an often combative relationship, within three years Jack had progressed to become Francis' chief assistant and often worked as his cameraman. Filmed on location in Africa, it was photographed by British cinematographer Freddie Young and starred Ford's old friend Clark Gable, with Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly (who replaced an ailing Gene Tierney) and Donald Sinden. Ford returned to the big screen with The Searchers (Warner Bros, 1956), the only Western he made between 1950 and 1959, which is now widely regarded as not only one of his best films, but also by many as one of the greatest westerns, and one of the best performances of John Wayne's career. Title: Casting himself as Trelkovsky, a meek Polish wanderer whose new Paris residence comes equipped with sinister neighbors, mysterious hieroglyphs, … Full review. Heralded as the man … You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Guests who attended included Dan Ford, grandson of John Ford; composer Christopher Caliendo conducted the acclaimed RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing his score to Ford's The Iron Horse, opening the four-day event; author and biographer Joseph McBride gave the Symposium's opening lecture; directors Peter Bogdanovich, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Jim Sheridan, Brian Kirk, Thaddeus O'Sullivan and Sé Merry Doyle participated in a number of events; Irish writers Patrick McCabe, Colin Bateman, Ian Power and Eoghan Harris examined Ford's work from a screenwriters perspective; Joel Cox delivered an editing masterclass; and composers and musicians, among whom David Holmes and Kyle Eastwood, discussed music for film. It also marked the start of the long association between Ford and scriptwriter Frank S. Nugent, a former New York Times film critic who (like Dudley Nichols) had not written a movie script until hired by Ford. He bought a brand new Rolls-Royce in the 1930s, but never rode in it because his wife, Mary, would not let him smoke in it. John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. [citation needed] William Wyler was originally engaged to direct, but he left the project when Fox decided to film it in California; Ford was hired in his place and production was postponed for several months until he became available. Film journalist Ephraim Katz summarised some of the keynote features of Ford's work in his Collins Film Encyclopedia entry: Of all American directors, Ford probably had the clearest personal vision and the most consistent visual style. He claimed a personal role in a vote of confidence for Joseph Mankiewicz. Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Sean Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or O'Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894,[3] (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). [44], During World War II, Ford served as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department. [77] While making Drums Along the Mohawk, Ford neatly sidestepped the challenge of shooting a large and expensive battle scene—he had Henry Fonda improvise a monologue while firing questions from behind the camera about the course of the battle (a subject on which Fonda was well-versed) and then simply editing out the questions. He had to move from his Bel Air home to a single-level house in Palm Desert, California, near Eisenhower Medical Center, where he was being treated for stomach cancer. It was originally planned as a four-hour epic to rival Gone with the Wind—the screen rights alone cost Fox $300,000—and was to have been filmed on location in Wales, but this was abandoned due to the heavy German bombing of Britain. It was made by Four Province Productions, a company established by Irish tycoon Lord Killanin, who had recently become Chair of the International Olympic Committee, and to whom Ford was distantly related. The politically charged The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)—which marked the debut with Ford of long-serving "Stock Company" player John Carradine—explored the little-known story of Samuel Mudd, a physician who was caught up in the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and consigned to an offshore prison for treating the injured John Wilkes Booth. According to Lee Marvin in a filmed interview, Ford had fought hard to shoot the film in black-and-white to accentuate his use of shadows. According to records released in 2008, Ford was cited by his superiors for bravery, taking a position to film one mission that was "an obvious and clear target". I’m so glad you were able to bury our disagreements.’ And this was his reply: ‘But what on earth have you got to do with A Fistful of Dollars?’ He was the only critic in town not to have found out that … [66] It was poorly promoted by Columbia, who only distributed it in B&W, although it was shot in color,[66] and it too failed to make a profit in its first year, earning only $400,000 against its budget of $453,000. In 1973, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Nixon, whose campaign he had publicly supported. That specific issue may be more about men in general than just Michael's actions, as witnessed by Carol being agitated by hearing Helen and Michael's lovemaking, and she not being able to rebuff the advances effectively of a male suitor, Colin, who is infatuated with her. He also visited the set of The Alamo, produced, directed by, and starring John Wayne, where his interference caused Wayne to send him out to film second-unit scenes which were never used (nor intended to be used) in the film.[68]. "[85] Carey credits Ford with the inspiration of Carey's final film, Comanche Stallion (2005). Instead, the horror movie-seeking Compton Group, a British studio better known for exploitation pictures and soft porn, showed interest in another of the duo’s projects, Repulsion (1965). John Wayne remarked that "Nobody could handle actors and crew like Jack. His work was also restricted by the new regime in Hollywood, and he found it hard to get many projects made. A notable example is the famous scene in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon in which the cavalry troop is photographed against an oncoming storm. Reputedly Orson Welles watched Stagecoach forty times in preparation for making Citizen Kane. John Ford, Director: The Quiet Man. In the summer of 1955 he made Rookie of the Year (Hal Roach Studios) for the TV series Studio Directors Playhouse; scripted by Frank S. Nugent, it featured Ford regulars John and Pat Wayne, Vera Miles and Ward Bond, with Ford himself appearing in the introduction. [10] Another strain was Ford's many extramarital relationships. A Portland pub is named Bull Feeney's in his honor. Ford created a part for the recovering Ward Bond, who needed money. [9] What difficulty was caused by this is unclear as the level of Ford's commitment to the Catholic faith is disputed. In addition to credited roles, he appeared uncredited as a Klansman in D. W. Griffith's 1915 The Birth of a Nation. It did considerably better business than either of Ford's two preceding films, grossing $950,000 in its first year[67] although cast member Anna Lee stated that Ford was "disappointed with the picture" and that Columbia had not permitted him to supervise the editing. I don’t agree with C. B. DeMille. And most of all, the vibe is going to be heavy frontier-gothic with liberal doses of feminized psychological dread. When she does speak up, it generally is about something against one of those few issues on which she obsesses, such as Helen's boyfriend Michael's invasion of her space at the apartment. Ford repeatedly declared that he disliked the film and had never watched it, complaining that he had been forced to make it,[51] although it was strongly championed by filmmaker Lindsay Anderson. The supporting cast included Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour, and Cesar Romero. I mean a group of men have picked on probably the dean of our profession. Ford directed sixteen features and several documentaries in the decade between 1946 and 1956. In November that year, Ford directed Fox's first all-talking dramatic featurette Napoleon's Barber (1928), a 3-reeler which is now considered a lost film. In 1955 and 1957, Ford was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. The gist: I like this movie, but boy, given some of the content, maybe I really shouldn’t. In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. I don’t like him, but I admire him. It was subsequently adapted into the long-running TV series Wagon Train (with Ward Bond reprising the title role until his sudden death in 1960). This feat was later matched by Joseph L. Mankiewicz exactly ten years later, when he won consecutive awards for Best Director in 1950 and 1951. In Ford's eyes the poor man could do nothing right and was continually being bawled out in front of the entire unit (in some ways he occasionally took the heat off me). Repulsion (1965) Plot. – Sara Michelle Fetters " If you're thinking “Repulsion by John Ford,” you're more on the right track than you could possibly know. " His last completed work was Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend, a documentary on the most decorated U.S. Marine, General Lewis B. Puller, with narration by John Wayne, which was made in 1970 but not released until 1976, three years after Ford's death. They'd rather make a goddamned legend out of him and be done with him. The Searchers was accompanied by one of the first "making of" documentaries, a four-part promotional program created for the "Behind the Camera" segment of the weekly Warner Bros. Presents TV show, (the studio's first foray into TV) which aired on the ABC network in 1955–56. John Ford was furious--his ancestors, it appears, used to lead ruffians on the Cumberland side of the Border--he looked on "Squire" Rick Voisey as a cut below him. O'Brien noticed this but deliberately ignored it, placing his hand on the railing instead; Ford would not explicitly correct him and he reportedly made O'Brien play the scene forty-two times before the actor relented and did it Ford's way. Ford was the first director to win consecutive Best Director awards, in 1940 and 1941. [37] Ford's third movie in a year and his third consecutive film with Fonda, it grossed $1.1 million in the US in its first year[38] and won two Academy Awards—Ford's second 'Best Director' Oscar, and 'Best Supporting Actress' for Jane Darwell's tour-de-force portrayal of Ma Joad. Directed by John Ford Starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles • Rio Bravo (1959) Directed by Howard Hawks Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson • The Magnificent Seven (1960) Directed by John Sturges Starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson • Sergeant Rutledge (1960) Directed by John Ford Though it is often claimed that budget constraints necessitated shooting most of the film on soundstages on the Paramount lot, studio accounting records show that this was part of the film's original artistic concept, according to Ford biographer Joseph McBride. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero series arriving in 2021 and beyond. He later moved to California and in 1914 began working in film production as well as acting for his older brother Francis, adopting "Jack Ford" as a professional name. 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