“Hey, hey boy, wake up there. Sheriff, wake him up there. If anybody’s going to sleep in this court, it’ll be me.” Judge Priest (1934), directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers as the titular character, is a pastoral comedy set in a small town Kentucky town decades after the American Civil War. Priest is…
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The Iron Horse (1924)
“Accurate and faithful in every particular of fact and atmosphere is this pictorial history of the building of the first American transcontinental railroad.” ‘The Iron Horse’, directed by John Ford in 1924, is a silent American western movie. The film follows the development and construction of the transcontinental railroad. The focus is on the small…
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