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You're very odd. Now I

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think— Very odd? You're odd. O-double-D?

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O-double-D odd. In

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1973, an aging movie star went

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to Palm Springs to visit a

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dying Hollywood director. Not how

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long have we known each other. How many

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years? Forty years. The

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actress was Katherine Hepburn, the

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director, John Ford. There

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were rumors they'd once had an affair. You're

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very devious. So if people were

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scared, I think they were very scared

0:30

of you. Good. John

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Ford directed more than 100 movies. He's

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famous for his westerns. Movies

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like Stagecoach, The Searchers, and classic

0:41

dramas like The Grapes of Wrath.

0:44

Katherine Hepburn, though, is right. John

0:46

Ford was odd. He

0:50

constantly chewed on a handkerchief. He

0:54

hated being interviewed. You're not tapering this.

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Yeah, I am. Oh, shit. And

0:59

on set, he was both a genius and

1:02

a tyrant. We blew him up one time.

1:06

John Ford won more Academy Awards than

1:08

any director in history. Win a ring.

1:10

John Ford. I have the four. John

1:12

Ford. But he never

1:14

went to an Oscar ceremony. He

1:17

made John Wayne famous. They did 14 movies together. Yet

1:21

Ford tormented him on set. All

1:24

day long, he badgered him. Need a shake. Oh,

1:27

for God's sakes, Duke. When are you going to learn

1:29

how to act? God almighty,

1:32

you're the worst. John

1:35

Ford also lied all

1:37

the time. His life was

1:39

a series of tall tales. When

1:42

whiskey was involved, and it often

1:44

was, He was the world's worst

1:46

drunkard. World's worst. The tales

1:48

got taller and the man got meaner. We

1:50

all knew Ford was a bit of a bullshitter,

1:52

right? He was a very sentimental man, but

1:54

he could be brutal. If you let him, he

1:57

didn't speak to me for two years. I

1:59

don't know. This day who I didn't. But

2:03

there's one undeniable fact. John.

2:06

Ford was the most influential filmmaker

2:08

of the twentieth century. Directors like

2:10

Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese revere

2:12

him a traitor out of John

2:14

for some one or two before

2:16

I start. Every movie is simply

2:18

because he aspires me as something

2:20

about forty minutes. nobody. A success.

2:22

See was not a real time

2:25

years of how you tell stories

2:27

with pictures. I love the Old

2:29

Masters by which I mean John

2:31

Ford. John Ford for. This

2:34

season on the plot thickens join. Me

2:36

then Michael. It's as I try

2:38

to make sense of how this

2:40

difficult and sometimes cruel man. Changed.

2:42

Moviemaking and in the

2:44

process. Shaped. American

2:46

John for his Walt Whitman.

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John Ford is Thomas Edison.

2:51

Sanford is. Centaurs.

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American life will hear rare recordings

2:58

of John Ford himself and lot

3:00

of three. Grasp One is a

3:02

secret of versions and interviews that

3:04

have never been heard before with

3:06

Hollywood legends including John Wayne and

3:08

respondents and Jimmy Stewart. There was

3:10

tension, always liked, isn't too short,

3:12

I'll never work for that, some

3:14

of which ever again follow along

3:17

as I go back in Hollywood

3:19

history from the days of silent

3:21

movies through the Nineteen sixties and

3:23

where I go on a mission.

3:25

To find a last John Ford's

3:27

Now. I have been looking and

3:29

looking for this film and I have

3:31

never found anything. Would it would

3:34

mean to find that footage is

3:36

literally incalculable to what an incredible

3:38

discovery would be? Does it does?

3:40

is it is? Is John for

3:42

Trump? It's.

3:47

All an effort to understand one man

3:49

and his legacy. which is the truth

3:51

is. We are still living

3:53

in the country John Ford created on

3:55

screen out here a man settles his

3:57

own problems for amateurs, a cop. The

4:00

guy I'll be there was you. All

4:02

need is a good says. On

4:05

the legend becomes fact. Since the

4:08

legend John Ford was not a

4:10

man interested in being understood, I

4:12

would rather not discuss it's own

4:14

as your fresh this season on

4:17

the plot thickens though. We're going

4:19

to try. He was very in

4:21

the searing as I could never figure and

4:23

now and I still see the at say

4:25

you say so I still have defined the

4:27

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