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Directed by John Ford
''Directed by John Ford'' is a documentary film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Originally released in 1971, it covers the life and career of film director John Ford.
==Production==
Bogdanovich first met John Ford in 1963, on the set of Ford's film ''Cheyenne Autumn'', interviewing the veteran filmmaker for a piece in ''Esquire'' magazine,〔 one in a series of profiles of famous directors. Ford, who typically despised interviews, perversely decided to be accommodating after he witnessed a production assistant warning Bogdanovich and his then-wife Polly Platt about Ford's difficult nature.〔McBride, Joseph. ''Searching for John Ford: a life'', Macmillan, 2001, p. 655. ISBN 0-312-24232-8〕 Ford occasionally found himself exasperated by Bogdanovich's questions, but also enjoyed his company, and amused himself by needling the young man and pulling his leg.〔McBride, p. 656.〕 Bogdanovich's ''Esquire'' piece temporarily produced some measure of friction between the two, as Bogdanovich did not remove the profanity from Ford's quotes in his initial draft, to Ford's displeasure.〔 Ford described it as "nauseating".〔McBride, p. 660.〕 He was also unhappy with the tone of the piece, entitled "The Autumn of John Ford", because he resented the implication that his time as a director was nearing its end.〔 Despite this, Bogdanovich and Ford remained friends. In 1967, Bogdanovich completed an interview book about Ford, which was published in England.〔McBride, p. 684.〕 Ford affected a lack of interest in the work, describing it as "a caricature" and claiming that he threw his copy away after reading the first three pages, though in reality he purchased more than 200 copies.〔McBride, pp. 684-685.〕 The next year, Bogdanovich began working on ''Directed by John Ford''.
Bogdanovich conducted interviews with actors Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and John Wayne, as well as Ford himself.〔Modderno, Craig. "(Director Bogdanovich Revives His John Ford Film )", Reuters, November 23, 2006.〕 Orson Welles delivered an original narration, which was recorded in a Howard Johnson's while Welles was directing ''The Other Side of the Wind'', during a 20-minute break in filming.〔 Bogdanovich also interviewed Ford in Monument Valley, a location Ford had used in some of his own films, producing footage that Bogdanovich described as "one of the funnier sequences in the picture".〔Lammers, Tim. "(Bogdanovich Points 'John Ford' In Right Direction - Documentary About Film Icon Restructured 35 Years After Original )", WESH.com (WESH TV, Orlando, Florida), November 7, 2006.〕 Ford, who was partially deaf and who did not enjoy discussing his work, would routinely make interviewers sit on the side of his bad ear, and then indicate that he was unable to understand the questions he was being asked.〔MacNab, Geoffrey. "(John Ford: Ford focus )", ''The Independent'', July 14, 2006.〕 Whenever his interrogators ultimately succeeded in making themselves understood, he would deliver only monosyllabic responses.〔 Ford's behavior in his interview with Bogdanovich accordingly delivered little useful information, but it pleased Bogdanovich anyway because he felt that it was an accurate depiction of Ford's character.〔
During production, the American Film Institute exhausted its funding, and was unable to purchase the rights to the film clips of Ford's work used in the documentary.〔 As a result, the film could only be shown in non-profit venues, such as free screenings at film festivals or one fundraiser for PBS. For this reason, it was rarely seen after its initial release.〔
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