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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2007
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Wayne, Harry Carey, Jr. & Pedro Armendáriz | |
Performer: | Mae Marsh, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, Charles Halton, Guy Kibbee, Dorothy Ford, Ben Johnson, Don Summers, Fred Libby, Hank Worden, Jack Pennick, Francis Ford, Richard Hageman & Cliff Lyons | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Jack Murray | |
Screenwriting by | Laurence Stallings & Frank S. Nugent | |
Composition by | Richard Hageman | |
Story by | Peter B. Kynes | |
Produced by | John Ford & Merian C. Cooper | |
Director of Photography: | Winton C. Hoch |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
John Ford, who had shot this popular tale as a silent, remade it with John Wayne, emphasizing even more the religious symbolism.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: C --
Wayne as the Prodigal Son delivering the Christ child seemed a bit of a stretch.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
he last reel, with Wayne explicitly identified as the Prodigal Son and a general collapse into mawkishness, might almost have strayed in from another movie.
Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Gorgeously photographed Ford version of the often filmed story.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It's phoney, it's bunk -- and it might just persuade you of a beautiful lie.
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Film4
Rating: 4/4 --
A wonderful, sentimental western.
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TV Guide
Winton C. Hochs's Technicolor cinematography is superb and Ford uses the rugged desert locations in virtuoso fashion.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
In John Ford's 3 GODFATHERS, based on Peter B. Kynes's allegorical novel about a trio of bandits, Robert Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro Roca Fuerte (Pedro Armendariz), and William Kearney, aka the Abilene Kid (Harry Carey Jr.), robs a small-town bank in Arizona under the nose of Sheriff Buck Sweet (Ward Bond). Although Abilene is wounded, the trio makes a clean getaway, with Buck's posse in close pursuit. Realizing that Buck has set a trap for them at the Mojave water tank, the bandits head toward Terrapin Tanks but lose the trail and their horses in a terrible sandstorm. Now on foot, they find the tanks defunct but come upon a lone covered wagon with a woman (Mildred Natwick) about to give birth. Although they're able to deliver the baby, the mother dies--but not before getting the bandits to promise to protect her child. Ford's sentimental tribute to the great Western icon Harry Carey Sr. (The screen dedication reads, "To the memory of Harry Carey, bright star of the Western sky"), who starred twice in silent versions of the story (including Ford's 1919 film MARKED MEN), 3 GODFATHERS features fine performances by Carey's son and by Wayne, who developed his famous persona in part by emulating the elder Carey's onscreen expressions and mannerisms. An air of tender inspiration permeates the film, which combines rousing action scenes with surprisingly subtle moments of self-sacrifice, redemption, and love.
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- Sales Rank: 14,471
- UPC: 012569798595
- Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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