John Ford is best known for directing some of the most iconic Westerns of the mid-twentieth century.
From Stagecoach to The Searchers to How The West Was Won to his Calvary trilogy and more, Ford’s filmography is largely a list of gun-slinging, horse-racing, desert-dwelling American movies that defined a generation.
That being noted, with a career spanning six decades and over a hundred films, John Ford made more than a few movies that fell outside of the Western genre, including literary adaptations like The Grapes of Wrath, military documentaries like The Battle of Midway, political dramas like Young Mr.
Lincoln and The Last Hurrah, and one dark melodrama that toes the line of expressionism, experimentalism, and at times, the avant-garde.
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