Ford suffered a series of minor strokes which left him in frail health in the years leading up to his death. Use it to submit your art, text, header, and subhead. MGM The Blackboard Jungle. In the midst of the many stars also donating their time – from Bob Hope to Cary Grant to Claudette Colbert – he met the popular dancing star Eleanor Powell. It starred Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward and Brian Donlevy.Featuring love triangles and an Indian uprising, it was adapted from the 1945 Saturday Evening Post novel Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox. Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2006, Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2015, Great old movies. Director: Jacques Tourneur. "I was so impressed when I met Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt," recalled Glenn Ford to his son decades later, "I was thrilled when I got back to Los Angeles and found a beautiful photograph personally autographed to me. Ford did a comedy, The Return of October (1948) and a popular Western The Man from Colorado (1949). Director: Jacques Tourneur. Ford a war movie, Torpedo Run (1958). But I was absolutely knocked out by the print quality and transfers on BOTH of these movies. Beautiful scenery. Columbia kept Ford constantly busy: The Undercover Man (1949), a film noir; Lust for Gold (1949), a Western with Ida Lupino; and Mr. Soft Touch (1949), another noir. Of course not. Every movie Ford starred in around this time was a hit: 3:10 to Yuma (1957), a classic Western at Columbia; Don't Go Near the Water (1957), a service comedy at MGM; and Cowboy (1958) with Jack Lemmon at Columbia. The item arrived promptly and was priced modestly. And she really was, not as big a star, as hindsight serves. Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Jack Brooks (lyrics) were nominated for Academy Award for …

Naval Reserve, was commissioned as a lieutenant commander and was made a public affairs officer – the position he had portrayed the previous year in the successful comedy Don't Go Near the Water. “I myself was filmed as I left the Brazilian embassy by a uniformed soldier in a ski mask,” Schakowsky told reporters in a conference call from Miami International Airport. He’s a man on a mission, a mission that needs his presence (an whatever is in his money belt) in Honduras, where a revolution has just taken place. Ford went to Paramount for The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) and Fox for Follow the Sun (1951) where he played Ben Hogan, and the Western The Secret of Convict Lake (1951). The erotic sadism and covert homoeroticism were actively encouraged on set by director Vidor, a sophisticated Vienna-born expatriate, though Glenn Ford always denied any awareness of the latter in his character's fervent loyalty to his boss, who had unwittingly married the love of Johnny's life. Why, when she was younger, did they always seem to cast her in black-and-white movies? At camp, we filmed an interview with Juan Carlos Flores, an officer with ICF, the Honduran Forestry Service. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. She was the model however for Tex Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood over at the MGM cartoon factory. I just watched the movie with Stanwyck. Thanks, Barry. Glenn Ford - A Life (Wis. 2011) by Peter Ford, p. 35. "There's something happeneing here, What it is aint exactly clear.". Ford installed the recording system to listen in on his first wife, Eleanor Powell's conversations, fearing that she would find out about his serial cheating and leave him. Unable to add item to List. Click. GLENN FORD NEARS 65 WITH A SHRUG: [FIRST Edition] Kelly said “We support the elections process there. Because he can. She later divorced him in 1959 on the grounds of adultery and mental cruelty. They are funny to watch and see and hear the characters speak about Honduras. APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS: An adventurer carrying a vast sum of money (Ford), a husband and wife whose marriage is on the rocks (Sheridan & Scott), and a murderous band of cutthroats trek through the jungles of Central America on a mission to save an ousted political leader. We used to go there often, and we were there during one of its periodic political upheavals. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). In 1991, Ford agreed to star in a cable network series, African Skies. But after seeing her read hair in all its glory in this one, I still think the studios (in her case, mostly Warner Brothers) could have made better use of what they had when they had her under contract. Jacques immigrated to the United States with his father in 1914, working as a script boy on many of Maurice’s films. So Ends Our Night also affected the young star in another way: in the summer of 1941, while the United States was still technically neutral, he enlisted in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, though he had a class 3 deferment (for being his mother's sole support). Until she meets Glenn Ford. The movies are OK, interesting primarily because of the casts. Tourneur’s technique was well suited to that genre, and the result was a brooding masterpiece, a candidate for the best noir ever made and the film that launched Robert Mitchum to stardom. RKO Adventure Classics Double Feature: Appointment in Honduras/Escape to Burma by Vci Video, Plunder of the Sun (Special Collector's Edition). He also made the mistake, which he bitterly regretted later, of turning down the lead in the brilliant comedy Born Yesterday (also planned with Rita Hayworth), which Holden then snatched up. Ford excelled in training, winning the Rifle Marksman Badge and being named "Honor Man" of the platoon and promoted to sergeant by the time he finished. Did The CIA Dose An Entire French Town With LSD. I don’t know if that makes any sense, but it does to me. Glenn Ford meddles in the governance of a sovereign nation. The movie, which premiered in the U.S. today in 1953, was mostly filmed at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. I had a 3:15 p.m. appointment at the physical therapist for a persistent knot in my back along with a few other issues (it’s totally cheap to go, so why not) and learned right away that it’s best to wear a loose shirt that gives him easy access … APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS. Ford had also been engaged to Debra Morris in the 1980s and Karen Johnson in the early 1990s. It would be one of the few times Tourneur worked with such material, despite his obvious proficiency. RT: 86 min, Color, 1.85:1, NR, 1955. After being sent to Marine Corps Schools Detachment (Photographic Section) in Quantico, Virginia, three months later, Ford returned to the San Diego base in February 1944 and was assigned to the radio section of the Public Relations Office, Headquarters Company, Base Headquarters Battalion, where he resumed work on Halls of Montezuma. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I'm not sure what motivated me to order this---except that I find the work of each director interesting, and the price is sure right. During his annual training tours, he promoted the navy through radio and television broadcasts, personal appearances, and documentary films. Announcing our NEW encyclopedia for Kids! It was Tourneur’s own favourite among his films.

With his final film for Lewton, The Leopard Man (1943), a thriller about a small New Mexico town terrorized by an escaped leopard, Tourneur clearly proved that his was a talent that could not be restricted to low-budget films. Thursday, senior State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the US will accept and recognize the results of the election even if they do not restore Zelaya to power. "[6] Ford heeded the advice and during the 1950s, when he was one of Hollywood's most popular actors, he regularly worked on plumbing, wiring, and air conditioning at home.

[17] He was awarded the Marine Corps Reserve Ribbon, which recognizes those who spend 10 years of honorable reserve service.

Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Rodolfo Acosta, Jack Elam, Ric Roman, Rico Alaniz. In 1958 Ford won the Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance for his role in Don't Go Near the Water.[30]. Ford's affair with stripper and cult actress Liz Renay was chronicled by her in the 1991 book My First 2,000 Men. We were looking forward to seeing what Honduras looked like before it became the disaster we personally know so well, a place of perpetual instability that at times has owned the highest murder rate in the world. We were stuck there for a week, but it wasn't all bad.

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Updates? She believes in his innocence and the two fall in love but their happiness is threatened as authorities close in. The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: letters from Barlee to his brother, the Rev. Ford made Plunder of the Sun (1953) with John Farrow, then was cast in the lead of The Big Heat (1953), Fritz Lang's classic crime melodrama with Gloria Grahame, at Columbia. The day after the coup that removed elected President Mel Zelaya from power, US President Obama said “We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the democratically elected president there”. The startled studio had to beg the Marines to give their second male lead four more weeks to complete shooting. [28], Ford retired from acting in 1991, at age 75, following heart and circulatory problems. Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Rodolfo Acosta, Jack Elam, Ric Roman, Rico Alaniz. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2016, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2015. [25], Ford attempted to purchase the Atlanta Flames in May 1980 with the intention of keeping the National Hockey League team in the city. He was in the drama Fate Is the Hunter (1964) and the romantic comedy Dear Heart (1964). We left San Pedro Sula, drove to the coast, then hopped a ferry—still operating thankfully—to Roatán. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He is a weak man but also a wealthy one. Glenn Ford: A Life (Wisconsin Film Studies). Movie Review: APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS (1953). While most remember him as a television actor, earlier in his career he starred in 1944's, It's easy. As this group of very disparate strangers makes their way through the jungle, complete with pythons, pumas and tiger fish, more than a fight for survival is going on. Beginning in 1936, he then directed 18 shorts, mostly for MGM, before he was given his first features, the prison drama They All Come Out (which began as a documentary short) and the mystery Nick Carter, Master Detective (both 1939). The original & current Hawaii Five-0 filmed and stayed here at Turtle Bay, as has the original & current Magnum P.I.. "People like George Marshall, who directed six pictures with me, and Debbie Reynolds." He suggested doing a Western series, instead, which resulted in the "modern-day Western" series, Cade's County. He was one of many famous faces in Is Paris Burning? Ford was cast in the lead of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961), a notorious box office fiasco.[16]. Ford made two films with Burt Kennedy The Rounders (1965), and The Money Trap (1965). I’m sure that this is not one of the films that made his reputation, but even in his best-known films, while I find the stories extremely well filmed and choreographed, I find the movies themselves do not often make a coherent whole.

His first freelance project was the atypically sensitive Stars in My Crown (1950), with Joel McCrea as a Civil War veteran who has become a minister in a small Tennessee town.