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Apr 22, 2013 · The only man on hand is a teacher and faux preacher, played by Eddie Albert; his wife (Betty Field) is pregnant and in need of a doctor, and the one who arrives—D. R. Cartwright—is a woman ...
Apr 27, 2015 · John Ford’s late career was dotted with heavily revisionist takes on the western cinematic mythology he helped to define, whether attacks on the genre’s racism or even its legacy as a romanticized outpost of uncivilized abandon. Ford’s final film, 7 Women, gave these critiques their purest expression by radically altering the director’s context: instead of shooting on location in ...
Apr 25, 2020 · The 7 Women is a fitting final twist in an illustrious career. In a mountain of westerns revolving around men’s men where only a few sturdy lasses on par with Maureen O’Hara were ever able to break in, Ford goes and makes a film populated with women. What’s even more rewarding is how much there is to cull through.
Apr 23, 2012 · John Ford’s final film is set in China in 1935, where a group of American women, led by Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton), work as missionaries. One of the women, Florrie (Betty Field), is pregnant and accompanied by her husband, Charles (Eddie Albert), while the others are single and on their own. The mission has become crowded after a ...
Jul 8, 2022 · 7 Women was a resounding and profound psychological analysis of the figure of women, a final ode that meant the final blow for such a rebellious director who only knew how to finish his ...
Apr 13, 2005 · 7 Women represents a fully-developed newfound side of Ford that prior features like Steamboat Round the Bend (in which Black pariah Stepin Fetchit fuels a steamboat fire with historical American waxwork figures) only hinted at: a concurrent bitterness and cynicism, though of a wise and elating sort. In particular, the way that Ford films ...
7 Women: Directed by John Ford. With Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson. In 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
