Review of John Ford

. . . back in the 1900s were not so innocent as they are Today (viewers can see in the 7-minute piece--JOHN FORD HOME MOVIES--narrated by director John Ford's grandson Dan Ford, included on Disc 2 of the 2010 Criterion STAGECOACH release, and hidden from public view--who knows why?--making this the next best page to review it). In our Enlightened 21st Century, when a Ballyhooed Entertainer wants to play Fuehrer-for-the-Day (or Eight More Years!), he does not need to sentence himself to a stint in California's Gubernator office, as did Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, JOHN FORD HOME MOVIES documents the Dark Ages of the mid-1900s, when the Rumpsters of Yesteryear had to content themselves with boozing it up on their private yachts off tropical coasts, while drunkenly scribbling out hit lists for U.S. Black Ops Squads to assassinate their film industry betters who could actually act circles around them (in M. Mitch "John Wayne" Morrison's case: the slaughtered John Garfield and Errol Flynn come to mind), or (in Mr. Ford's instance) tell much more compelling stories, A La Dalton Trumbo.