Directed by Lewis Milestone • 1939 • United States
Starring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Field
George and Lennie are California migrant workers on the run from the law because of something the simple-minded giant Lennie did. They find work at a local ranch, where they dream of making enough money to buy their own farm with Candy, a long-time ranch hand with savings. Their dreams are threatened by the rancher’s bullying son and his alluring wife, who may very well force George to make the hardest decision of his life in order to spare Lennie.
Directed by John Ford • 1939 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
John Ford’s first film in color is also one of his most visually splendorous achievements. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert are the Revolutionary War–era settlers who weather attacks from both ...
Directed by John Ford • 1940 • United States
Starring John Wayne, Ward Bond, Ian Hunter
Shot in stunning chiaroscuro by master cinematographer Gregg Toland, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME is John Ford’s and screenwriter Dudley Nichols’s lyrical adaptation of four one-act plays by Eugene O’Neill, distilled...
Directed by John Ford • 1941 • United States
Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp
John Ford’s majestically moving portrait of a Welsh coal-mining family unfolds from the perspective of its youngest son, Huw (Roddy McDowall), as he looks back on his hardscrabble Victorian-era chi...
