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John Ford, Fox, 1925. A surveyor’s son (George O’Brien) grows up chasing the transcontinental railroad and the men who killed his father. Madge Bellamy is the girl from the East. Ford shot in Nevada with real locomotives, the Jupiter and the 119 for the Promontory finish, and a camp large enough the trades called it a town. Native resistance and Irish track gangs are written as 1925 wrote them. It is the picture that moved Ford from programmers toward the landscape style he kept. The last spike is a ceremony the film has been building.
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Ford in Nevada with real locomotives and a camp the trades called a town. The scale is the last spike at Promontory, with the Jupiter and the 119 standing in for themselves. The murdered father is the excuse. The landscape style Ford kept for forty years starts here.
Ford in Nevada with the Jupiter and the 119 standing in for themselves. The murdered father is the excuse; the last spike is the ceremony. Native resistance and Irish track gangs as 1925 wrote them. Watch the low angle on the men and the rails. He kept it for forty years.
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