3 Godfathers

John Ford's Legend of the Southwest!
3 Godfathers
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 22, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1948
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,280
Rating: 4/5 -- There are humor and honest tear-jerking in this visually beautiful film. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 25, 2006
It's phoney, it's bunk -- and it might just persuade you of a beautiful lie. Full Review
Film4
May 24, 2003
he last reel, with Wayne explicitly identified as the Prodigal Son and a general collapse into mawkishness, might almost have strayed in from another movie.
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- Gorgeously photographed Ford version of the often filmed story.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Aug 13, 2003
Rating: 4/4 -- A wonderful, sentimental western. Full Review
TV Guide
Nov 27, 2007
Rating: C -- Wayne as the Prodigal Son delivering the Christ child seemed a bit of a stretch. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 25, 2004
Rating: 5/5 -- Reworking of the 3 wise men story out west is very good Ford.
Kansas City Kansan
Oct 16, 2004

Product Description:

In John Ford's 3 GODFATHERS, based on Peter B. Kynes's allegorical novel about a trio of bandits, Robert Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro Roca Fuerte (Pedro Armendariz), and William Kearney, aka the Abilene Kid (Harry Carey Jr.), robs a small-town bank in Arizona under the nose of Sheriff Buck Sweet (Ward Bond). Although Abilene is wounded, the trio makes a clean getaway, with Buck's posse in close pursuit. Realizing that Buck has set a trap for them at the Mojave water tank, the bandits head toward Terrapin Tanks but lose the trail and their horses in a terrible sandstorm. Now on foot, they find the tanks defunct but come upon a lone covered wagon with a woman (Mildred Natwick) about to give birth. Although they're able to deliver the baby, the mother dies--but not before getting the bandits to promise to protect her child. Ford's sentimental tribute to the great Western icon Harry Carey Sr. (The screen dedication reads, "To the memory of Harry Carey, bright star of the Western sky"), who starred twice in silent versions of the story (including Ford's 1919 film MARKED MEN), 3 GODFATHERS features fine performances by Carey's son and by Wayne, who developed his famous persona in part by emulating the elder Carey's onscreen expressions and mannerisms. An air of tender inspiration permeates the film, which combines rousing action scenes with surprisingly subtle moments of self-sacrifice, redemption, and love.

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  • Sales Rank: 10,808
  • UPC: 012569798595
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