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John Ford - Pilgrimage (1933)

Posted By : newland | Date : 08 Feb 2008 05:12:00 | Comments : 3

John Ford - Pilgrimage (1933) [DVDrip]
English | Subtitles: ENG, FR, ESP (optional) | 1:35:54 | 720x528 | 23.97fps | XviD | Audio: MP3 - 128kbps | 921 MB

Hannah Jessop fears being abandoned by her son Jim, and she doesn't approve of his romance with Mary Saunders. When Hannah discovers that Jim and Mary plan to wed, she sends her son off to fight in WWI, unaware that Mary is carrying his child. For many years, Ford specialists such as Tag Gallagher and Joseph McBride have been singling out this uncharacteristic melodrama as one of the master’s unsung masterpieces.

Hannah Jessop is one of the most cussedly dislikeable characters in not just the Ford canon but, as far as I can discern, American cinema itself. And she's the main focus of the thing! Daring for 1933...hell, it's daring for now. The picture is both rough-hewn and extremely sophisticated, with fascinating touches that make still pertinent social points. It's really something; a major discovery in and of itself. Glenn Kenny

In his definitive 2001 biography Searching for John Ford, Joseph McBride calls Pilgrimage (1933) the director's "first great film." It bears the traits that would come to characterize his later masterpieces: an examination of heroism and patriotism, a sense of melancholia and loss, a tendency toward rowdy comedy, and moments of breathtaking visual grace. Yet the film has been rarely screened in the decades since its release, probably due to its lack of stars and the fact that it lies outside the genres usually associated with Ford's career. Bret Wood

Throughout his career, Ford's films have a reverent, almost maudlin attitude toward mothers. One glimpses it at times in Pilgrimage, particularly in the multi-cultural Gold Star Mothers who bear their crosses with all the steely stoicism (spiced with knee-slapping humor) of Ma Joad in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Ironically, Hannah is not viewed with such awe and respect. She is probably the most unsympathetic mother ever to appear in a John Ford picture —which makes it all the more poignant to see her brittle pride crumble by film's end. If she parallels anyone else in the director's oeuvre, it would be the cold-hearted Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956), who commands our attention even as he resists our empathy. Bret Wood

The poignancy of Pilgrimage is compounded by the fact that Ford's own mother died on March 26, 1933, in the midst of production. "His awareness of his mother's impending mortality," wrote McBride, "may help explain why he invested such profound emotion in Pilgrimage." Bret Wood

Like many other filmmakers of the time, Ford had been greatly influenced by the film Sunrise (1927), made at Fox by German director F.W. Murnau. Immediately after the release of the film —generally regarded as the finest of the silent era— Ford's work began to reflect the dark expressionist-influenced cinematography, stylized sets, and the slowly tracking camera. The resemblance between Pilgrimage and Sunrise is especially obvious in the scene in which the farm boy sneaks out of the house to meet his forbidden love in a fog-enshrouded field (a scene that appears almost identically in Sunrise). Ford did not consistently pattern his visual style upon Murnau's, but it is clearly evidenced in such films as Four Sons, Arrowsmith (1931), and The Informer (1935). Bret Wood

IMDB review and TMC review.

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Posted By: ecolab33 Date: 08 Feb 2008 11:47:49

This is a wonderful post newland.
Please upload dvdrips of Four Sons, Judge Priest,
Doctor Bull and Up the River if you have them.
(0h! I am asking too much...I am a greedy hardcore Ford fan)
Ford is the major poet of American Cinema.

Eternally grateful,
ecolab33

Posted By: Garullista Date: 25 Apr 2009 04:32:21

Thanks, friend.

Posted By: pomme Date: 09 Sep 2009 19:19:13

Just watched this movie. Too bad the last ten minutes or so are missing.
It suddenly stops at 01:27:15, although its running time should be around 96 minutes.
Could you please fix that?

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