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All the John Ford You Can Afford

Ford_at_fox_5 If AMC's Christmas Day broadcasts of How the West Was Won (8:15 a.m. EST) and The Searchers (11 p.m.) inspire you to seek out other John Ford films, consider the new 21-disk box set "Ford at Fox: The Collection." In Ford's 32 years at Twentieth Century Fox, he made more than 50 films. Twenty-four of them are represented here, along with Becoming John Ford, a new documentary by Nick Redman, plus a hardcover book filled with rare photographs, production stills, and lobby cards.

Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director four times (more than any other filmmaker), and two of those films—The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley—are included here, along with other greats like Young Mr. Lincoln and Drums Along the Mohawk. There are also five silent films from 1928, three mid-1930s collaborations with Will Rogers, and curiosities like Up the River (1930), which starred a young Spencer Tracy and featured Humphrey Bogart in his first credited onscreen appearance.

All this doesn't come cheap.  "Ford at Fox" has a list price of nearly $300, although it's available online for less. Still, is that too much to pay for the man Orson Welles called the greatest poet cinema has given us? 

Posted by Helen Pfeffer
December 25, 2007 1:00am


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