"Photography was William H. Clothier. This show's director John Ford, actors James Stewart and John Wayne, and cinematographer William H. Clothier also filmed ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" together the same year. ""Flashing Spikes"" remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles. Flashing Spikes ""Flashing Spikes"" is a 1962 television play directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart, with a lengthy surprise appearance by John Wayne, billed in the credits as ""Michael Morris"" (apparently based on Wayne's birth name ""Marion Michael Morrison""). The hour-long drama revolving around a"
"a harmless, forgettable time-filler."" Rob Nelson in the ""Boston Phoenix"" wrote: ""Privilege and coincidence have always been central to screwball comedy, but the speed of crosstown travel here rivals ""Die Hard 3"" for plausibility. And it's these convenient shortcuts that waylay the film from examining the condition it purports to critique: that is, the '90s compulsion to drive at full throttle."" The featured song 'For the First Time', written by James Newton Howard, Jud Friedman and Allan Dennis Rich, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy"
"on four occasions. William Wyler and Frank Capra come in second having won the award three times. Ford was the first director to win consecutive Best Director awards, in 1940 and 1941. This feat was later matched by Joseph L. Mankiewicz exactly ten years later, when he won consecutive awards for Best Director in 1950 and 1951. As a producer he received nominations for Best Picture for ""The Quiet Man"" and ""The Long Voyage Home"". In 1955 and 1957, Ford was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. He"
"Always Together Always Together is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by I. A. L. Diamond, Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Don McGuire and Ransom M. Sherman. The film was released by Warner Bros. on December 10, 1947. A millionaire on his deathbed leaves a million dollars to Jane Barker, a film addict who believes life is like the movies. Jane gets married without telling her new husband about the inheritance. The millionaire gets better and wants his million dollars back. Throughout the"
"previews (trailers) shown in cinemas and on television prior to the film's release, but in the film itself, Wayne is accorded top billing. Their names are displayed on pictures of signposts, one after the other, with Wayne's name shown first with his sign mounted slightly higher on its post than Stewart's. Director John Ford remarked in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich that he made it apparent to the audience that Vera Miles' character had never entirely recovered from an abortive romance with Wayne's gunslinging rancher because ""I wanted Wayne to be the lead."" Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford used precisely"
"Two Rode Together Two Rode Together is a 1961 Western film directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart, Richard Widmark and Shirley Jones. The supporting cast includes Linda Cristal, Andy Devine and John McIntire. The film was based upon the novel ""Comanche Captives"" by Will Cook. In 1880s Tascosa, Texas, Marshal Guthrie McCabe is content to be the business and personal partner of attractive saloon owner Belle Aragon, receiving ten percent of the profits. When relatives of Comanche captives demand that Army Major Fraser find their lost ones, he uses a combination of army pressure and rewards from the"
"Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda film of the same name. Patrick also served a tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard. Throughout the 1970s he portrayed Marathon John in commercials for Mars Inc's Marathon candy bar. Following work on his father's 1971 film ""Big Jake"", Wayne earned recognition in the sci-fi genre. His career peaked in the late 1970s in the popular matinee fantasy ""Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger"" (1977), then in ""The People That Time Forgot"" (1977). Wayne also screen-tested for the title role of ""Superman"". He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley"
"him."" Wayne later told Strode, ""We gotta work together. We both gotta be professionals."" Strode blamed Ford for nearly all the friction on the set. ""What a miserable film to make,"" he added. Stewart received top billing over Wayne on promotional posters, but in the film itself Wayne's screen card appears first. The studio also specified that Wayne's name appear before Stewart's on theatre marquees, reportedly at Ford's request. ""Wayne actually played the lead,"" Ford said, to Peter Bogdanovich. ""Jimmy Stewart had most of the sides [sequences with dialogue], but Wayne was the central character, the motivation for the whole"
"Monogram, and Republic. Wayne kept on friendly terms with John Ford who, as a result, gave Wayne a career boost with ""Stagecoach"" (1939). John Wayne had achieved stardom in motion pictures by 1941 and, by the end of the decade, was one of the cinema's top ten box office attractions. During the latter half of the 1940s Wayne starred in what many film fans and critics regard as being among his finest work, notably the ""cavalry trilogy"" ""(Fort Apache"", ""She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"", and ""Rio Grande)"" for director John Ford, ""3 Godfathers"", also for Ford, and ""Red River"" for"
"was wonderful in a way because we had the run of the Fox lot; whatever sets happened to be still standing, we'd use those sets. My partner, Lou Vittes and I, would walk through those sets that had already been used for more expensive pictures than we could make and we would pretty much write the script around those sets."" Parts of the theme song sound similar to the theme from ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"", directed by John Ford four years later and starring John Wayne, James Stewart and Lee Marvin. Showdown at Boot Hill Showdown at Boot"
"(1981). This was preceded by a nomination for ""The Empire Strikes Back"" (1980) and followed by nominations for ""Return of the Jedi"" (1983) and ""Empire of the Sun"" (1987). He won his second Academy Award in 1998 for his work on ""Titanic"" (1997). Ford also served in a design capacity on the ""James Bond"" films ""The Living Daylights"" (1987), ""Licence to Kill"" (1989) and ""GoldenEye"" (1995). He died in 2018 at the age of 90. Michael D. Ford Michael Dickins Ford (1928 – 31 May 2018) was an English film art director and set decorator. Born in southern England, Ford"
"For the First Time (Kenny Loggins song) ""For the First Time"" is a 1996 song from the 1996 film ""One Fine Day"" starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney with music and lyrics by James Newton Howard, Jud J. Friedman, and Allan Dennis Rich and performed by Kenny Loggins. The song was included in the soundtrack of the film and was Loggins' one and only number one hit on the Adult Contemporary chart. ""For the First Time"" spent two weeks at number one and peaked at number sixty on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. ""For the First Time"" did not"
"For the First Time (1959 film) For the First Time is tenor star Mario Lanza's final film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer six weeks before his death in 1959. Filmed on location in 1958 in Capri, Salzburg, Berlin and at the Rome Opera House, the film told the sentimental story of an operatic tenor (Tony Costa) who finds love for the first time with a young German woman (played by Johanna von Koczian), who happens to be deaf. The film was directed by Rudolph Mate, and featured Kurt Kasznar and Zsa Zsa Gabor in supporting roles. Critics singled out Lanza's singing of"
"the Academy Award for Best Director for John Ford, his fourth, and for Best Cinematography. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In the 1920s, Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, travels to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm and his birthplace in Inisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), the sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire ""Red"" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). Danaher, who had wanted the farm"
"movie song of all time by the American Film Institute. Hayes also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, the Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Original Dramatic Score Oscar, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. The film's score was also selected as a possible candidate for AFI's ""100 Years of Film Scores"". Richard Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer (Male), and he also received an MTV Lifetime Achievement Award for his portrayal in the ""Shaft Trilogy"". The character John"
"which is now widely regarded as not only one of his best films, but also by many as one of the greatest westerns, and one of the best performances of John Wayne's career. Shot on location in Monument Valley, it tells of the embittered Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards who spends years tracking down his niece, kidnapped by Comanches as a young girl. The supporting cast included Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles and rising star Natalie Wood. It was Hunter's first film for Ford. It was very successful upon its first release and became one of the top 20"
"the art of film and whose achievements had been acknowledged by the general public as well as by film scholars and critics and the individual's peers. The Trustees also specified that the work of the recipient must have withstood the test of time. Director John Ford was the unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees for the first award as he ""clearly stands preeminent in the history of motion pictures."" President Richard M. Nixon attended the gala dinner at which Ford was presented the award on March 31, 1973. The Board of Trustees later amended the ""test of time"" requirement"
"spouse. Against such childish opposition, Cecil Kellaway and Ernest Truex, two old hands at ripping up farce scripts and scenery, pretty well have their reckless ways. Some of their clowning is enlivening but for the most part it is forced and dull. The Warners will have to do much better in arguing for money than this."" Always Together Always Together is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by I. A. L. Diamond, Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Don McGuire and Ransom M. Sherman."
"- Gary Goddard/Landmark Ent ""Ford: The Man and The Machine"" - 1987 - Allan Eastman ""Justin Bieber - Believe"" - 2013 - Jon Chu ""Strangely in Love"" - 2012 - Amin Matalqa ""Small Time"" - 2012 - Joel Surnow ""Happy & Bleeding"" - 2012 - Christian Charles/ Anne Estonilo ""The Killing Game"" - 2011 - Bobby Roth/ Anne Carlucci/Lifetime ""The United"" - 2011 - Amin Matalqa/Walt Disney Pictures """" - 2011 - Michael Jai White ""Gnomeo & Juliet"" (temp) - 2011 - Kelly Asbury ""Sideways"" - 2010 - Cellin Gluck ""Morning Light"" - 2008 - Mark Monroe / Roy E."
"is sometimes revealed in later scenes. Several locations are used in different segments to show continuity throughout the twelve-year period. Frederic Raphael received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Audrey Hepburn received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress, and Henry Mancini received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. The film's theme song, ""Two for the Road"", was composed by Mancini, who wrote many notable theme songs for films, including ""Moon River"" for ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". He considered ""Two for the Road"" his favorite of all the songs he wrote. Cars featured in the film,"
"John Williams discography John Williams, also formerly credited as Johnny Williams, worked as a jazz pianist and studio musician before starting to compose for television and film. Throughout his career he has directed his own works whenever possible. In a career spanning 60 years, he has won four Academy Awards for Best Original Score (""Jaws"", ""Star Wars"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", ""Schindler's List"") and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score ""(Fiddler on the Roof)"". He has won four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 23 Grammy Awards, and has received several gold and platinum records."
"Star Wars (film) Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original ""Star Wars"" trilogy and the beginning of the ""Star Wars"" franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star. ""Star Wars"" was released"
"(1938), ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Searchers"" (1956), ""A Summer Place"" (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to ""Life with Father"". Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Dieterle, William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, John Huston, Irving Pichel, King Vidor, and Frank Capra. All orchestration notes, additional composition, stock music, and main/end title notes come"
"""How The West Was Won"", the first non-documentary film to use the Cinerama wide-screen process. Ford's segment featured George Peppard, with Andy Devine, Russ Tamblyn, Harry Morgan as Ulysses S. Grant, and John Wayne as William Tecumseh Sherman. Also in 1962, Ford directed his fourth and last TV production, ""Flashing Spikes"", a baseball story made for the ""Alcoa Premiere"" series and starring James Stewart, Jack Warden, Patrick Wayne and Tige Andrews, with Harry Carey Jr. and a lengthy surprise appearance by John Wayne, billed in the credits as ""Michael Morris"". ""Donovan's Reef"" (Paramount, 1963) was Ford's last film with John"
"Wayne plays real-life James Smith, an American coping with British rule in colonial America. The supporting cast includes Brian Donlevy, George Sanders and Chill Wills. Claire Trevor and John Wayne also headed the cast of John Ford's ""Stagecoach"" the same year, and in ""Allegheny Uprising"" Trevor is top-billed over Wayne, due to her greater name value at the time. The film did not fare well in its initial release. The superficially similar John Ford film ""Drums Along the Mohawk"" had been released only one week prior. In the United Kingdom, where the film kept the original title, it was initially"
"(1959), and ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), which ranked second on AFI's list of best American film scores, and the film score for which he is best known. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score for ""Life with Father"". Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the best known film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, and William Wyler, and scored many of the films with Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Fred Astaire. Many of his film scores are available as"
"Ford made ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" and ""Drums Along the Mohawk"", both with Henry Fonda. The latter was Ford's first film shot in Technicolor. In 1940 Ford made ""The Grapes of Wrath"" with Fonda and ""The Long Voyage Home"" with Wayne and Mitchell. For the former film Ford received his second Academy Award for Best Director and the Best Supporting Actress for Jane Darwell. He followed these films in 1941 with ""How Green Was My Valley"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, brought Ford his third Academy Award for Best Director and the Best Supporting Actor Award to Donald"
"international licensing of over 300 feature length pictures, including such noteworthy box-office titles as the James Bond film ""Never Say Never Again"", directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Sean Connery, ""Prizzi's Honor"", directed by John Huston and featuring Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, ""Once Upon A Time In America"", directed by Sergio Leone and featuring Robert De Niro and James Woods, ""Cotton Club"", directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featuring Richard Gere and ""The Final Countdown"", starring Kirk Douglas. Damon has produced or executive produced over 70 films, and his films have received 10 Oscar nominations including: the 2005 Academy"
"was the first recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1973. Also in that year, Ford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. Ford directed 10 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Victor McLaglen, Thomas Mitchell, Edna May Oliver, Jane Darwell, Henry Fonda, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Jack Lemmon. McLaglen, Mitchell, Darwell, Crisp and Lemmon won an Oscar for one of their roles in one of Ford's movies. A television special featuring Ford, John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda was broadcast over the CBS network on December 5,"
"were enthusiastic about Alexander's score, once the film was met with a disastrous reception at a preview it was decided to restore the film with a guitar score by Mundell Lowe. Alexander never composed another score for a feature film. A Time for Killing A Time for Killing is a 1967 Western film directed originally by Roger Corman but finished by Phil Karlson. Filmed in Panavision and Pathécolor, it stars Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, and Harrison Ford (credited as Harrison J. Ford) in his first credited film role. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union"
"Newman, Jerry Goldsmith, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, and John Williams. AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005. John Williams has the most scores in the top 25, with three: ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", ""Jaws"", and the top choice, ""Star Wars"". Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, and Max Steiner each have two scores listed. The most scores by one composer nominated for the top 25 was"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"Power, ""Union Pacific"" with Joel McCrea, ""Destry Rides Again"" featuring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, and the release of John Ford's landmark Western adventure ""Stagecoach"", which became one of the biggest hits of the year. Released through United Artists, ""Stagecoach"" made John Wayne a mainstream screen star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns. Wayne had been introduced to the screen ten years earlier as the leading man in director Raoul Walsh's widescreen ""The Big Trail"", which failed at the box office, due in part to exhibitors' inability to switch over to widescreen during the Depression. After"