Searching for John Ford, by Joseph Mcbride. St. Martin’s Press, 812 pages, $40. At one point in Preston Sturges’ wonderful wartime farce, Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), the hero’s mother is ...
John Ford once directed a war movie that he had no desire to make until he was forced to by the United States Navy. While John Ford is known for his Westerns, especially the ones he made with John ...