{"id":8866,"date":"2010-08-16T07:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T06:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:25:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T06:25:06","slug":"john-ford-bbc-interview-from-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/08\/16\/john-ford-bbc-interview-from-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ford BBC interview from 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9iMuWD4ZQ4I\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8867\" title=\"John Ford BBC interview in 1968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/John-Ford-BBC-1968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the late 1960s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Ford\">John Ford<\/a><\/strong> was firmly established as one of the great directors of his era, for films such as\u00a0<a title=\"Stagecoach (1939 film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stagecoach_(1939_film)\">Stagecoach<\/a> (1939),\u00a0<a title=\"The Searchers (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Searchers_(film)\">The Searchers<\/a> (1956)\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance\">The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/a> (1962).<\/p>\n<p>The following BBC interview from 1968 is a fascinating snapshot of Ford in his later years (he would die in 1973).<\/p>\n<p>Years of heavy drinking had clearly taken their toll and the opening question sets the tone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interviewer: What sort of childhood did you have? Where you interested in movies way back?<\/p>\n<p>Ford: Not really. Not interested in them now, actually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9iMuWD4ZQ4I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9iMuWD4ZQ4I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also note the\u00a0heavy smoking, Ford&#8217;s belligerent\u00a0attitude, awkward zooms, random transitions to black and white and the obligatory posh English interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>It is almost a short film itself.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000406\/\">John Ford<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.sensesofcinema.com\/contents\/directors\/02\/ford.html\">Essay on John Ford at Senses of Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vintage BBC interview with director John Ford from 1968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,26],"tags":[1507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}