John Farrow

Wayne in the Water: Two Nautical Adventures with The Duke

Oct 4, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

By the mid-50s, John Wayne had long abandoned playing characters in his movies. Instead—with very rare exceptions like John Ford’s The Searchers (1956)—John Wayne was content with playing John Wayne. Tough, authoritative, and incalculably charismatic, […]

My Kind of Movie: Baroque Noir and His Kind of Woman (1951)

May 28, 2014 Drew Morton 0

In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]