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** Also Harry Carey, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and his brother Francis Ford.
** Towards the end in [[The Sixties]] there were [[Woody Strode]], Patrick Wayne (John's son), and [[Jeffrey Hunter]].
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: If the film is based outdoors, be it the West in Monument Valley Utah or [[The Quiet Man|Ireland in Mayo County]], you are looking at some of the most ''gorgeous shots'' in film history. Cinematographers who worked with him - and would argue about what they were doing - tended to get Oscars for how beautiful the films turned out.
* [[The Western]]: what Ford is best known for. His classics - ''[[Stagecoach]]'', ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'', ''[[Fort Apache]]'', ''[[Rio Grande]]'', even the ''[[The Searchers]]'' - practically defined the black-and-white morality tales of the West that dominated cinema from [[The Thirties]] to [[The Sixties]].
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