The Lost Worlds of John Ford

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford''s film-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western films through the lens of Ford''s life and abiding preoccupations. Ford''s other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, ...