GoodReads meta-data is 888 pages rated by 4.38 by 143 litizens
Genre: Biography.
Sample only. No traction for this reader.
My reading did not complete the Kindle sample. I could not get started for some reason. Maybe it was because the Irish names in Gaelic were impenetrable, each with a variant spelling. More importantly, the author drew straight lines from some incident in Ford’s youth to a scene in one of his movies, as if there were no intervening mediations, or anyone else involved. I could never quite grasp the organising principle of the account. A BBC Radio 4 Great Lives episode on Ford was intriguing for suggesting some hidden depths in the man, but they remain hidden from me.
I have stood on John Ford Point, been in Gould’s Trading Post, skirted the west mitten, and so on, and consider ‘The Searchers’ THE greatest western. My credentials are in order.