3 bad men
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3 bad men was offered on dvd in the ford at fox boxset from late 2007. the single - layered kino lorber
john ford takes the characterization a step further, actually two steps further, with three outlaws who have hearts of gold in his production of
3 bad men
( fox film corp. , 1926) .
this may shock you, but the 3 bad men of the title are not the bad guys in this absolutely magnificent silent western! they' re a bunch of lovable horse thieves who stumble into heroism after they chase away a rival gang and find less villainous work escorting olive borden across the old west .
i had seen the dvd of 3 bad men quite a long time ago but i felt i could really appreciate it more in hd. it' s an impressive silent era western by the best storyteller of the genre. the kino lorber
film historian joseph mcbride provides a commentary track that covers 3 bad men ’s production in copious detail and also links the film to previous and future ford works. there’s also a theatrical trailer, though curiously it’s for ford’s 1937 feature the hurricane .
there weren' t many western
epics
made during the silent era, so comparisons between the few that were made are inevitable. richard koszarski in an evening' s entertainment (university of california press, 1990) called
3 bad men
a
powerful historic epic
and said it was
far more satisfactory by any possible standard than
the covered wagon
( paramount, 1923). the land rush sequence in
3 bad men
is certainly as exciting and well - filmed as the one in william s. hart' s
tumbleweeds
( united artists, 1925) and is aided by a much better developed and engrossing story than hart' s film. unfortunately ,
3 bad men
hasn' t been available over the years as
the covered wagon
and
tumbleweeds
have. nevertheless, it is certainly deserving of some of the notoriety and praise that has been accorded these other films .
3 bad men
is truly one of the great epic westerns of the silent era. with this film, director john ford provided a worthy follow - up to his classic
the iron horse
( fox film corp. , 1924). although the film was praised by critics, it failed at the box office and did not recoup its $ 650, 000 cost. however, dan ford says in his 1979 biography of his grandfather (pappy: the life of john ford, prentice - hall) that
3 bad men
is
... quite possibly his (john ford' s) best silent film .
so i suppose we can now say that it’s official, barring any unforeseen events, of course. “bad boys 3” is a go. i assume it’ll be filmed later this year (one of its stars – will smith – just begun production on his next film, “collateral beauty” for new line cinema, which is set for release during awards season later this year. he’ll likely follow that up almost immediately with filming on “bad boys 3” over the summer) .
as in so many john ford films, 3 bad men is loaded with beautifully composed shots of western vistas. one of the highlights is a recreation of the 1877 dakota land rush, as stunning a set piece as you ever would hope to see. indeed, no american filmmaker captures the stark, simple beauty of the american west as john ford .
3 bad men is a complex, ambitious, yet satisfyingly breezy silent western from film giant john ford. this flick' s got humor, melodrama, thrilling setpieces, and, above all, a well - told story. as long as you aren' t prejudiced against silent cinema, you' ll have a heck of a good time. highly recommended .
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the 1926 silent 3 bad men marked the end of the first phase of john ford’s career. it was the filmmaker’s last western until 1939’s stagecoach, as well the last major feature he completed before he saw f. w. murnau’s sunrise the following year and spent the next decade exploring german expressionism. despite ford’s subsequent stylistic shift, the film nonetheless demonstrates the director fully grasping for the first time the balance of grandeur and intimacy that would define his later, more mature work .
men and women’s hands wave into the distance and out of frame from their ship signalling the beginning of ford' s 3 bad men, like his mormons in wagon master or sailors in the long voyage home they search for their promised land and as the intertitle tells us ‘some sought happiness – some only the horn of plenty – the chalice of gold’. soon the ships on the sea give way to the wagons on their trail all headed to the dakotas with life envisioned as a parade placed against the purity of the land. and so all the grandness of this story is established in the first few minutes where immigrants are…
bull
takes her back to the saloon and puts her in a bed. before she dies, she tells him that layne hunter is the man with whom she ran away. he vows revenge against hunter. after an unsuccessful attempt by
bull
to find the villain, hunter and his men cross over the land rush line to wait for lee, dan and the three bad men when the race begins the next day at noon .
the pace of the story picks up considerably when some of hunter' s men kill the old prospector, lucas (played by jay hunt), because he won' t tell them where he found gold. however, before he dies, he tells the three bad men who shot him. they organize a revolt to rid the town of hunter and his men, but, realizing what is happening, hunter incites his men to burn down the local church where it just happens a large number of the town' s womenfolk are having prayer with the minister. hunter' s drunken men set wagons on fire and run them into the church, then ambush the church so no one can escape the burning building .
bull' s
sister, millie, jumps in front of the minister as he pleads with the ambushers for mercy, and she is shot .
bull
and the other men arrive to rescue the women, and that is when he discovers his sister has been in the town all along .
as 3 bad men commences, with a voyage westward toward a gold rush in the dakotas, shots of a wagon train provide sweeping vistas of the old west landscape, but ford best captures the epic atmosphere of this time and place with more intimate reaction shots. scattered members of a sioux tribe watch the huge procession with somber helplessness, simmering at the white intrusion, but unequipped and under - manned to resist. meanwhile, bandits monitor the wagons for weaknesses from afar like coyotes, and the eponymous three men who seek to rob the gold rushers are introduced silhouetted by the sun behind them, casting them in an ominous pall .
william s. hart may have been the one who popularized the good - bad man persona, but he wasn' t the only one who could do it and do it well .
in breaking bad, gus never meets saul goodman and todd alquist. gus is never seen on screen with lydia rodarte - quayle but it is clear that they did know each other .
i’d expect “bad boys 3” will be even bigger and * badder * than the last 2, which means that it might get expensive for sony pictures, with likely heftier salaries to pay (smith and lawrence will probably demand more money than they received many years ago for the first 2), and it’s a question whether it may even be worth it for the studio; unless they expect it to do really big numbers at the box office. and i don’t know if that’s a guarantee, quite frankly. i’m sure it’ll do well, but are will smith and martin lawrence still the box office draws they both once were, just a few years ago, especially after a handful of underwhelming returns for smith movies in recent years? but maybe this is exactly the kind of movie that fans want to see both actors in, and “bad boys 3” will serve as a sort of return to form for them .
they succeed in running off the would - be robbers and find lee kneeling over her father who has been killed in the melee. she gets up, turns to
bull
and buries her face in his chest crying. the three
bad
men are softened by the girl and even agree to be hired, and paid later, by her when she can claim land, hopefully with gold upon it, in the land rush .
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in short order, however, the three bad men of the film’s title—bull (tom santschi), mike (j. farrell macdonald), and spade (frank campeau) —become unwitting heroes. as they prepare to steal some of the train’s horses, they spot a separate band of renegades beating them to the punch. “our business is getting overcrowded, ” mike exclaims as the men rout the rival thieves, and their hard exteriors melt when they come across a sobbing lee (olive borden), whose father was killed by the other bandits. accompanying lee to the nearby frontier town, the trio hang around as protectors, eventually falling into conflict with layne hunter (lou tellegen), the town’s corrupt sheriff .
this classic western directed by the great john ford (the hurricane) stars george o' brien (sunrise) and a host of other greats from the silent era and beyond. when a trio of bandits discovers a young woman (olive borden) whose father was murdered by a ruthless gang, the
three bad men
go from being partners in crime to comrades in chivalry. willing to put their own lives on the line to protect her from a sinister sheriff (lou tellegen) and his deranged posse, the men prove that character isn' t always determined by which side of the law a man sits on. a grand, picturesque western, this epic stands as one of the legendary director' s finest .
mike approaches gus to seek help in laundering the remaining $ 200, 000 he stole from hector so that it can be left to his family. gus agrees, warning mike that the process will be difficult, and both men shake hands .
borden is not only charming, but beautiful as well. it is no wonder she wins the hearts of the three bad men. her scenes with o' brien are a pure delight. after the initial shock of dan walking in on her taking a bath, we see a deviish smile cross her face as she thinks about his embarassment. in another scene, dan watches her walk behind one of the wagons, and all we see is an outstretched arm appear from around the wagon with her fingers waving ,
come along .
step out of the car and, axe in hand, enter the house. walt showers, unaware of the two men moving toward him. in his car, mike makes a phone call .
there' s something he should know about ,
he tells
i’ve always said, for as long as a “bad boys 3” movie has been rumored to be in the works (which has been many years), by the time it eventually goes into production, both actors will be over 60 years old! well, maybe not after all, as sony pictures has put an official release date on the threequel, for next year actually – june 2, 2017 – and has confirmed a director for it as well, joe carnahan (last year, word on the street was that carnahan was “in early talks” to both re - write the script for the movie as well as direct) .
.
your new lab ,
says gus. explaining that the facility receives large chemical shipments and boasts an excellent filtration system, gus tells walt no suspicions will be raised. although very impressed by the high - tech apparatus of the lab, walt declines gus' s offer, saying that he' s already made too many bad decisions. if his decisions were made for his family' s welfare, gus counters, they were not bad .
a man provides ,
gus says .
and he does it even when he' s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved .
ford was good at making sure the grandness of his pictures didn' t detract from the characters, and
3 bad men
is no exception. he chose george o' brien (a ford
discovery
who rose to stardom in
the iron horse
) to portray happy - go - lucky dan o' malley. with his muscular physique, we expect o' brien to play the part of the strong young buck who can take care of himself, and he gets the chance to do just that in scenes such as the one where he lifts a wagon by himself so the wheel can be put on it or when he defends himself in a fight in the saloon. however, o' brien is also effective in his scenes with olive borden such as the one where he almost kisses her after wiping mud from her face or when he accidentally walks in on her taking a bath .
as part of gus' agreement with hector, gus' men hand over a portion of his smuggled drugs to nacho, who insists on taking one more package than was agreed to. gus orders his henchmen to allow nacho to take the extra portion, as he is scouting a commercial
my brother - in - law, moments before he was attacked, someone called to warn him. i believe that same person was protecting me. those two men - the assassins - i believe i was their prime target, but that somehow they were steered away from me to my brother - in - law
when walt seeks a buyer for his chemically pure meth, he is put in contact with gus. walt manages to persuade gus into purchasing thirty - eight pounds of his meth for $ 1. 2 million; after the product yields good returns, gus offers walt $ 3 million for three months of his time. gus' hiring and protection of walt puts him at odds with the cartel' s leadership. despite gus' initial protection of walt during the second and third seasons, the collaboration between the two men becomes permanently strained after he attempts to kill walter for killing two of his dealers and after jesse kills gale on walter' s orders. gus then becomes a formidable adversary of walt' s and the main antagonist during the fourth season .
following the success of the previous deal, gus invites walt back to los pollos hermanos for a meeting. despite his great respect for gus, walt has decided to stop cooking meth .
i am not a criminal ,
he explains. gus offers walt $ 3 million for three months of work .
i have money ,
walt says, declining .
what i don' t have is my family .
walt, seriously jarred by the
shortly afterwards, gus (as part of his image as a big dea booster) goes to the hospital with a large buffet of los pollos hermanos fried chicken for the police officers keeping vigil over hank. in the waiting room, walt watches gus console marie .
men like your husband are the thin blue line between us and these animals ,
he says .
go from being partners in crime to comrades in chivalry. willing to put their own lives on the line to protect her from a sinister sheriff (lou tellegen) and his deranged posse, the men prove that character isn' t always determined by which side of the law a man sits on. a grand, picturesque western, this epic stands as one of the legendary director s finest .
this reads like a dumb and desperate idea to me. i should note that i’m not a fan of the “jump street” movies, so maybe i’m biased. but with this email leak, i wonder if sony will continue on with this crossover path with other movies, especially if “mib23” is a hit. i should note that the studio was already gearing up for “23 jump street” as well as another “men in black” movie, so someone over there obviously thought that a single combo film made more sense .
at the time, the idea was so unbelievable to me, and i called it ridiculous; but the studio clearly sees a way for the 2 universes to collide on screen that i can’t immediately picture, as it’s also been reported, via deadline, that sony has also put into development a movie called “mib23” (as in “men in black” and what was to be “23 jump street” – the second film was titled “22 jump street”), which “moves channing tatum and jonah hill from school narcs to alien hunters. ”
meets with mike and asks him to kill eleven men from gus' operation in order to tie any loose ends. mike refuses because gus paid them enough
hazard pay
to keep quiet; however, when he is called in to meet with hank and gomez, mike learns that the authorities have discovered and frozen gus' s cayman islands accounts, using the rico act to halt and seize payments to gus' subordinates, including mike, who had $ 2 million that he was planning on leaving behind for his granddaughter ,
of mike' s intent to assassinate his employer. he also assigns one of his men to place a tracking device in mike' s car to keep tabs on the latter' s wherabouts at all times. as a warning to mike, gus' s agent purposefully blow' s mike' s cover when he makes his attempt, bugging the beater car mike purchases, following mike to hector, and wedging a branch against mike' s car' s horn before leaving a note on the windshield, which simply reads :
don' t .
and while this wasn’t as damning as that, one of the leaked emails included discussion of another “jump street” film (a 3rd) that would crossover with will smith’s “men in black” franchise. that’s right! you read that correctly. how exactly the studio planned to make that happen, wasn’t revealed in any of the emails, but “jump street” star jonah hill is / was certainly on board with the idea, telling sony pictures co - chairman amy pascal at the time, in an email: “jump street merging with mib i think that’s clean and rad and powerful. ”
walt calls gus to let him know that gale isn' t working out, and he wants to replace him with jesse .
i was told the lab is mine ,
walt reminds gus, who begrudgingly approves jesse' s return. later, hank is in his suv in a shopping center parking lot. his cell phone rings .
two men are coming to kill you ,
says an electronically altered voice .
you have one minute .
it is this warning that allows hank to be prepared for the impending ambush and to attack the cousins before they can attack him, eventually ending in leonel' s serious injury and marco' s death
the film’s action sequences reveal ford’s innate command of multi - planar compositions, with contrasting movement in the foreground and background of his frames, but the moments that most clearly point to the filmmaker’s future mastery lie in small character interactions. around lee, the three bandits turn into clumsy but avuncular figures, and their concern for the young woman extends to trying to find her a husband in a funny scene where they scour a saloon investigating men’s teeth and physical attributes to find a suitable mate. elsewhere, ford’s favoring of medium and long shots over close - ups magnifies the sexual tension between lee and dan (george o’brien), the handsome cowboy she meets at the start of the film. in perhaps the film’s most arresting scene, he seems to lean in for a kiss, only to grab her head and wipe a smudge of mud off her face, and the shot lasts just long enough to capture a twinge of longing on lee’s expression .
i didn’t then, and i still don’t see it; but maybe you do. according to the email, directing duo phil lord and chris miller were on board as producers and potential directors of that movie mash - up; although, also per the emails, will smith and tommy lee jones would not be involved. there was no script (back then), but, as the emails also revealed, the project was greenlit based on the concept alone. sony execs even sought steven spielberg’s participation (since he’s the man behind the “men in black” franchise), sending an email to his attorney, stating: “we didn’t do as well as we had hoped for on the last mib film, but that hasn’t caused us to lose faith in the franchise. in reality, the exact opposite has occurred where we all have an opportunity to take an interim step on the way to hopefully forging ahead again in the pure - play mib universe. ”
four years and four films earlier. it won even bigger at the box office and scooped up a handful of japanese and international awards, proving that its director was not merely an art - house auteur but could fill theaters as well. the film’s popularity in japan was instrumental in securing financial guarantees for kurosawa’s own production company, which supported all his subsequent films up to 1970. the pacing and characters of
its landscapes and epic feel, make it a great action film, and as kurosawa’s first use of widescreen, it is one of his most stylish movies. with this film, the director’s artistry and humanist ideology spectacularly fused with the entertainment values of adventure films and comedies. still, although it shares a great deal, thematically and stylistically, with his previous films, including
and its nation - building enthusiasm, many critics in japan and the u. s. originally dismissed
and it is now widely viewed as a key film in the history of action - adventure cinema, encapsulating the american - asian roots of the genre as it has evolved since the 1970s .
catherine russell is professor of film studies at concordia university, montreal. she is the author of four books and numerous articles on narrative theory, experimental ethnography, japanese cinema, experimental film, canadian cinema, and walter benjamin. please see www. catherinerussell. ca .
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cast: george o’brien [ dan o’malley ], olive borden [ lee carlton ], lou tellegen [ sheriff layne hunter ], tom santschi [ ‘bull’ stanley ], j. farrell macdonald [ mike costigan ], frank campeau [ ‘spade’ allen ], priscilla bonner [ millie stanley ], otis harlan [ zach little ], phyllis haver [ lily ], georgie harris [ joe minsk ], alec francis (alec b. francis) [ reverend calvin benson ], jay hunt [ nat lucas, the old prospector ]; walter perry [ pat monahan ], george irving [ general neville ], grace gordon [ millie’s friend ], vester pegg, bud osborne
fox film corporation production; distributed by fox film corporation. / scenario by john stone + [ john ford ], from the adaption by john stone of the novel over the border by herman whittaker. assistant director, edward o’fearna. photographed (cinematography) by george schneiderman. titles (intertitles) by ralph spence and malcolm stuart boylan. presented by william fox. / © 22 august 1926 by fox film corporation [ lp23044 ]. trade premiere, 13 august 1926. released 28 august 1926. / standard 35mm spherical 1. 33: 1 format. / ford’s last silent western. location photography was taken in jackson hole, wyoming, and in the mojave desert, california. the film’s length was cut after its premiere .
references: film credits, film viewing: afi - f2 n. f2. 5652; everson - american pp. 250, 259; filmyearbook - 1926 p. 56; gallagher - ford pp. 32 - 34, 41, 260, 267, 498; limbacher - feature p. 249; sinclair - ford pp. 40 - 42, 237; sweeney - coming p. 101: clasim - 221 p. 53: website - afi .
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this is a great find - some excellent performances here (olive borden as the plucky little heroine, priscilla bonner as poor little misguided millie, lou tellegen as the corrupt sheriff in rather silly hat) and an excellent story which has a lot to say and keeps you watching. if only someone out there would restore it to its former glory... wouldn' t it look wonderful ?
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cast: george o' brien (dan o' malley), olive borden (lee carleton), tom santschi (
bull
stanley), j. farrell macdonald (mike costigan), frank campeau (
spade
allen), lou tellegen (layne hunter), priscilla bonner (millie), phyllis haver (lily), alec b. francis (reverend benson), otis harlan (zach little), georgie harris (joe minsk), jay hunt (nat lucas). directed by john ford .
dan o' malley (played by george o' brien) is a cowboy working with a wagon train moving west. he meets lee carleton (played by olive borden) and her father when he stops to help them replace a wagon wheel that has fallen off. the carletons are on their way to the dakota land rush with several race horses that they hope will serve them well in the race for land .
in this short scene, dan and lee make the usual flirtatious eye contact, and later dan even holds her with head turned back and eyes closed - not to kiss her - but to wipe away a speck of mud she got on her face. of course, she' s willing, and dan wants to, but, in typical cowpoke fashion, he never gets up the nerve .
the four of them arrive in custer where the land rush will begin. this rugged western town has sprung up overnight due to the thousands of land rushers swarming in for the free land which, hopefully, will have gold on it. the town' s sheriff is layne hunter (played by lou tellegen), a crooked gang leader who uses his position to get what he wants. unknown to lee, it was hunter' s gang that killed her father in the aborted robbery attempt. also, unknown to
bull ,
hunter is the very man he is looking for - the man who ran off with his sister, millie (played by priscilla bonner). as fate would have it, millie is right there in custer still hoping hunter will marry her .
while
spade
and mike are more concerned with getting drunk ,
bull
is agonizing over lee. his brotherly instincts are apparently getting the better of him, and he decides they should find a husband for her .
spade
and mike provide a comic interlude when they
check out
a derby - wearing, cane - toting dandy as a possible husband, but it' s
bull
who runs across dan o' malley, who has just wandered into town for the land rush, and, ignorant of dan' s and lee' s earlier meeting, brings dan back to
let nature take its course
with the two young people .
once again ford has provided a riveting story about everyday people against the backdrop of an historical event (this time, the dakota land rush of 1877) without allowing
history
to overwhelm the characters. and, in true ford fashion, the natural wonders of the wide open spaces give the story not only beauty but authenticity, as well. it was filmed in jackson' s hole, wyoming, where the crew experienced a real taste of western life as they lived in tents, ate from chuck wagons and bathed in the river. the land rush sequence was filmed in a dry lake bed in victorville, ca. , just outside los angeles .
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of john ford' s 1926 film looks like it is from the same source but transferred in 1080p. there is inherent damage in the 90 - year old film but it is entirely watchable. the higher resolution defines the contrast, to a higher degree and the film presentation is just richer and truer over the old sd. this
advances on the image quality, also exemplifying the damage but it breathes new life into the viewing, imo .
is accompanied by the same pleasing music score as the 2007 fox dvd - composed by dana kaproff. the intertitles appear original, although may have had some restoration, and, hence, there are no subtitles offered and m
audio commentary by film historian joseph mcbride, the author of searching for john ford and it gives a great overview of the production offering many good details. there is also a t
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although i never wanted to become one of those guys who focused' too much' on image and sound quality - i find hd is swiftly pushing me in that direction. gary' s home theatre :
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kino’s transfer doesn’t constitute a significant restoration, as the blu - ray contains numerous instances of scratches, lines, and other debris. some frames appear darker than intended. despite these setbacks, some images are surprisingly crisp, with stable textures and contrast levels that render the long shots in great detail. the soundtrack fares better, sourced from a 2007 score that clearly renders piano and guitar without any technical issues .
john ford’s great silent feature is a key film in the director’s oeuvre, and despite an unrestored transfer, it belongs in the library of all of his fans .
buy blu - ray release date august 23, 2016 distributor kino lorber runtime 92 min rating nr year 1926 director john ford screenwriter john stone, malcolm stuart boylan, ralph spence cast george o' brien, olive borden, tom santschi, lou tellegen, j. farrell macdonald, frank campeau, priscilla bonner
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comedy, romance, drama, and action are all combined by john ford in this exceptional western. a perfect fit for the «into the wild» festival, what has been called the wildest western race in film history is here brought together with the premiere of new film music by the avant - rock trio blueblut, joined by the breathtaking theremin virtuoso pamelia stickney .
dans le cadre de «into the wild» – rainy days 2016 coproduction cinémathèque de la ville de luxembourg et philharmonie luxembourg presented by special arrangement with 20th century fox. © 1926 william fox. renewed © 1953 twentieth century fox film corporation. all rights reserved .
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three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed. a silent film directed by john ford .
c' était juste une question de temps, je suppose, avant que je devienne le genre de fatiguant qui dit que le cinéma était mieux avant que le parlant vienne tout gâcher .
so much beauty in this film. in the midst of the preparations of the land rush, ford gives us faces, faces daringly looking ahead to the future, and faces of children, and faces of babies. it' s not the waterfall of tears that ford' s later pilgrimage is, but i can think of no other movie that makes me want to cry so often. in many ways it' s one of ford' s most intimate films, a brother to young mr. lincoln. there is grandiosity, that being the land rush for gold and the new settlers coming to america, and then inside of that, the movie is dominated by acts of kindness. v and ford never lets us forget for one second that the nation of america was built on immigrants .
a nation to compound all the people of all the faces of the earth !
three crooks adopt a settler girl just before a great land grab of cleared tribal land .
the first silent ford i' ve watched and i was very impressed. he' s obviously a director who kept progressing for decades after this and the set pieces and use of exteriors are very good but not at the same level as his later work but it' s a western with real bite, excellent developed characters and really atmospheric settings. it has some of the same manifest destiny issues for me as a lot of his other work, the forced clearance of the land is nothing but an economic opportunity but i think it is somehow more palatable here, possibly because the film has a real energy…
filmed on location in jackson hole, wyoming and the mojave desert, california, this b & w silent film from director john ford was based upon the 1916 novel
over the border
by herman whitaker. ford starts us off with a history lesson, of the westward migration of the 19th century, europeans crossing the sea to america, and easterners following the promise of farmland, gold and wealth in the vast frontiers of the old west .
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this is the first silent western i' ve seen (give or take the gold rush) and it' s a hell of an introduction. from the early scene in which olive takes absolutely no shit whatsoever from the handsome guy who tries mansplaining wagons to her, i was in love; the romantic comedy elements in the courtship between these two characters…
3 bad men is a 1926 american western film directed by john ford . bob mastrangelo has called it " one of john ford 's greatest silent epics . " the film had inspired the title for akira kurosawa 's 1958 film three bad men in a hidden fortress , simply known as the hidden fortress in the rest of the world . 
3 bad men is a 1926 american western film directed by john ford. bob mastrangelo has called it " one of john ford's greatest silent epics. " the film had inspired the title for akira kurosawa's 1958 film three bad men in a hidden fortress, simply known as the hidden fortress in the rest of the world.
3 bad men is a 1926 american western film directed by john ford. bob mastrangelo has called it " one of john ford's greatest silent epics. " the film had inspired the title for akira kurosawa's 1958 film three bad men in a hidden fortress, simply known as the hidden fortress in the rest of the world.