by Eyman (Author)
Brilliant, stubborn, witty, rebellious, irascible and contradictory, John Ford remains an enduring symbol of Hollywood's Golden Age and one of its most respected directors. Through a career that spanned decades and 140 films - among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers , The Grapes of Wrath , Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford left a cinematic legacy that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet Ford himself was famously reticent about his personal life, often fabricating details and events. In this exploration of the life and career of one of America's greatest directors, Scott Eyman offers a portrait of the man behind the legend. He reveals how a saloon keeper's son from Maine helped to shape Hollywood's idea of America.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Published: 03 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0801865603
ISBN 13: 9780801865602
Print the Legend makes all previous books on Ford, and most books on any other filmmaker, seem undernourished. Eyman... has given us a 600-plus-page book without an ounce of fat. -- Allen Barra, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Scott Eyman, Ford's latest and best biographer, has his work cut out sorting through the blarney Ford left strewn in his wake. But what a wake... Everything about this model biography is a pleasure. -- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
A quietly magnificent biography of an American original who has shaped our perception of movies as serious art... Eyman's study serves up a big, gorgeous chunk of Hollywood history, chock-full of priceless anecdotes. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Eyman has emerged as one of the most distinguished and reliable of popular film historians. Print the Legend displays his broad knowledge, his tact, his willingness to credit other writers, his capacity to avoid sensationalism but not to flinch from difficult truths. -- Robert Sklar, Washington Post Book World
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