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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569798595
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 13496
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 01, 1948
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Product Description:
Fugitive bank robbers Robert (John Wayne) William (Harry Carey Jr.) and Pedro (Pedro Armendariz) stand at a desert grave. Caring for the newborn infant of the woman they just buried will ruin any chance of escape. But they won't go back on their promise to her. They won't abandon little Robert William Pedro. Director John Ford's Western retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and thematic masterpiece. Ford adds color to his feature-film palette capturing stunning vistas via cinematographer Winton Hoch who would win two of his three Academy Awards * for Ford films. Again populist-minded Ford asserts that even men of dissolute character can follow that inner star of Bethlehem to their own redemption.Running Time: 106 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. UPC: 012569798595 Manufacturer No: 79859
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It's hardly shameful that The Three Godfathers ranks as the slightest John Ford Western in a five-year arc that includes My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, and Rio Grande. The source, a Peter B. Kyne story both hard-bitten and sentimental, had already been filmed at least five times--once by Ford himself as Marked Men (1919). The star of that silent version, Harry Carey, had recently died. This remake is dedicated to him ('Bright Star of the early western sky') and proudly introduces his son, Harry Carey Jr. (who had already appeared in Howard Hawks's Red River--as did his father--but we won't quibble).
Just before Christmas, three workaday outlaws (John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr.) rob a bank in Welcome, Arizona, and flee into the desert. The canny town marshal (Ward Bond) moves swiftly to cut them off from the wells along their escape route, so they make for another, deep in the wasteland. There's no water waiting for them, but there is a woman (Mildred Natwick) on the verge of death--and also of giving birth. The three badmen accept her dying commission as godfathers to the newborn. Motley variants of the Three Wise Men, they strike out for the town of New Jerusalem with her Bible as roadmap. It becomes increasingly apparent that saving the child's life will cost them their own.
Ford's is the softest retelling of the tale; in place of Kyne's bitter/triumphant final twist, he adds a very broad comic postlude. Elsewhere, the nearly sacramental treatment of the mother's death is followed by an extended gosh-almighty sequence of the banditos reading up on childcare. But it's all played with great gusto and tenderness--especially by Wayne, who's rarely been more appealing. Visually the film is one knockout shot after another. This was Ford's first Western in Technicolor, as well as his first collaboration with cinematographer Winton Hoch. What they do with sand ripples and shadows and long plumes of train smoke is rapturously beautiful. It's also often too arty by half, but who can blame them? --Richard T. Jameson
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Rating:  - John Wayne,Living legand.Always remember,Never forget.
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Rating: - An Unusual Western--In More Ways than One
Rather than repeat what other reviewers have said, I focus on certain themes. Having seen many westerns and John Wayne movies, I was struck by the unique nature of this one.
To begin with, John Wayne, for once, is the bad guy--a bank robber. Second, outlaws are usually incorrigible and with seared consciences. These outlaws are different. Third, seldom are infants shown in westerns, much less one being taken care of by a bunch of tough outlaws!
Religion is not usually shown ... Read More
Rating: - 3 Godfathers: Most Overlooked Ford/Wayne Film
I am neither an expert in the cinema nor educated to be one. But I have a working knowledge of John Ford's films, and understand why he is among our greatest diectors. If you share this view and see something much deeper in John Wayne's work in films than just being himself, there may be some parts of this brief review that ring true to you.
You may find other reviews of the plot and some analysis of the film and Ford's intentions. You may read those. I feel strongly enough about the film, ... Read More
Rating:  - Old fashioned very enjoyable John Ford Western starring John Wayne and Ward Bond as his worthy opponent.
This oft-filmed story is from a sentimental novel "The Three Godfathers" written by Peter B. Kyne. John Ford who had earlier made a silent version MARKED MEN (1919) with Harry Carey. Another remake THE THREE GODFATHERS (1936) was a highly acclaimed version directed by Richard Boleslawski. The 3 GODFATHERS (1948) reviewed here is noted for being Ford's first colour film and for its opening touching dedication to one of John Ford's early favourites: `To the memory of Harry Carey' - `Bright star of the early ... Read More
Rating: - dvd review
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