45 Replies to “The Sun Shines Bright 1953 John Ford”

  2. Greetings from New Zealand. What a fantastic movie. They dont make them like that any more. 1953 was a great year….The year I was born. Thank you for posting this.

  4. John Ford puts so much detail into every scene. Watch the background and how the extras add to each scene. The actors are not there to act but to play a part. Life is not one man against the world, it is the choreography of people and their stories interacting.

  6. One thing that I really resent about early motion pictures about the South during the period just before the Civil War and during it is that they show "happy Blacks" who are slaves. That is insane and has fueled much of the talk of racism in the U.S., even though racial relations are very good these days. It is the slime Dumbo-Crat party politicians who want to stir up racial tensions in order to "fire up their political base" of stupid fools who vote for Dumbo-Crats. Hollywood got it ALL wrong when showing happy slaves! StocktonRob

  9. Such a wonderful film, thank you for your contribution to making this a better world with you being in it John Ford! xxxooo

  12. Though a John Ford fan I hadn't seen this one. I was surprised to read it was his favorite work. Now, for the kicker. I believe very few under the age of fifty, and even many over that age, could understand it. They'd have no way to understand what the world was like when it was made or the message it was telling. In fact they'd probably condemn it as being patronizing and racist. The reason I probably hadn't seen it is that it dealt with subjects so sensitive that it was never on television as I was growing up in the 1950's in the Los Angeles area. I was ready to turn it off after the first 10 minutes then went online to read some reviews. I read that it was Ford's favorite and decided to view the entire movie because I had to see why. I now know why.

  21. It's almost unbelievable that YouTube would put anything up that's decent the other than a bunch of crap from all their little suck asses that pay a big money to put their crap up to this is amazing somebody must have made a mistake and the and the algorithm or whatever they call it

  23. I grew up where Irving S Cobb did, in Paducah. He is buried there. He wrote Judge Priest stories for the New Yorker. Note the steamboat coming in.

  29. My Grandfather born in 1900 in Newport Kentucky remembers seeing Civil War veterans, both reb and yank, marching on armistice day. The kids would yell to the yanks "Where were you? Under the banks at Shiloh?" This movie should be shown to every 6th grade classroom in the country, see how things really were.

  32. I tried not to like it and I don't know why I kept watching…but oh my GOODNESS! The movie was wonderful. Thanks for posting.

  34. Nice to see a movie again that's good without all the profanity and sex, that has a real ending and doesn't leave people depressed. There is enough of that in real life. OH! NICE prancing horse at the end!

  35. Interesting choice of Biblical testimony. Jesus was reminding the rabble that he was a literate Rabi implying that they were not of the same social class as he; thus the writing in the dirt.

  37. "No more will an empty sleeve or gimpy knee stand in the way of progress in the 20th century!" Ugh … How strong and brave one has to be to stand for what's right.

  41. How many movies were toplined by Charles Winninger? That's a recipe for box-office failure. But his supporting cast was tremendous and quite vintage: James Kirkwood, Mae Marsh, Francis Ford, Stepin Fetchit, Jane Darwell, Clarence Muse, Grant Withers, wow.

  45. 'round this film's release date down the road a piece, a lil Louisville Ky, lad Cassius Marcellus Clay. Had his bI-cycle stole…the rest is HIStory.

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