Articles tagged with historical drama

Last semester, when my film teacher said that after the advent of sound, American films had virtually no influence on filmmaking stylistically, my immediate reaction was “What about John Ford?” Ford was the biggest and most successful director of the old studio system, and also somehow managed to be one of the most artistic. He worked primarily on Westerns, though in his 115+ movies (no kidding), he branched out a little. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) might be considered one of his...