Three bad men : John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond
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Three bad men : John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond
McFarland & Company, Inc., c2013
- : softcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-384) and index
Contents of Works
- Foreword: working for Mr. Ford / by Michael A. Hoey
- Preface: What would Ward do?
- Introduction: gluteus maximus and the power of Feeney's myth
- The boy from Benkelman
- Genesis and John Wayne
- Jack of all genres
- Boating, booze and "boule de suif"
- Pappy, Wild Bill, Jimmy and Brick
- The big son of a bitch learns to act
- Pappy's inferno
- Bond and the blacklist
- 'Cause Wayne can't play the part
- One hell of a binge
- Duke becomes the devil, judge becomes the coach
- A star steers the wagon train
- El shakespeare de San Antone: "buenas noches, culo del caballo"
- Do you miss Ward?
- Appendix A: The films of John Ford featuring John Wayne and/or Ward Bond
- Appendix B: the films of Ward Bond
- Appendix C: the television performances of Ward Bond
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Description
These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published).
The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a ""half-genius, half-Irish"" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.
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