Volume 48, Number 20 · December 20, 2001
John Ford's West
By Thomas Flanagan
Searching for John Ford: A Life
by Joseph McBride
St. Martin's, 838 pp., $40.00
When André Bazin described John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) as 'the ideal example of the maturity of a style brought to classic perfection,' he employed an apt metaphor, that of a 'wheel so perfectly made that it retains its equilibrium on any axis in any position.' No image is more common in Ford's westerns than that of a wagon wheel, lost or abandoned, set upright against the horizon, or more emblematic.
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