Leo Grin in Breitbart has a wonderful article on John Ford's war time experiences during World War II and one of my favorite movies, "They Were Expendable" which I can watch over and over again.. A sample of the article is as follows:
“[John Ford] was the only one of the Hollywood directors who fought who did not forget his men.”
– Captain Mark Armistead, USN –
Thus quotes Joseph McBride in his masterful biography Searching for John Ford, at the head of the chapter dealing with the director’s wartime activities. It is usually seen as lamentable when a genius is pulled from the practice of his art for any extended period, but here we must make a special allowance. As filmmaker Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994) explains in his essential critical volume About John Ford (which, like the McBride book, should be sitting proudly and dog-eared on the bookshelf of every conservative film fan): “War service took Ford away from the making of films for some three years when his powers were at their height. One would regret this interruption more had it not led directly to the making of a masterpiece.”
The masterpiece of which he speaks is a 1945 war film called They Were Expendable, and if you are a conservative who has never seen it, then you have denied yourself one of the most moving and achingly poetic expressions of your worldview ever put to celluloid......
(To read more click on the title for a link..... it will be well worth your time)
