SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“My Darling Clementine must be one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns.”
97 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by John Ford. In English.
Note: This screening will be followed by a 2-3 pm panel discussion juxtaposing John Ford’s extensive use of Monument Valley as a backdrop for his movies to evoke ideals of freedom with the realities of the Navajo people.
For more information on the John and Francis Ford Film Festival, or to purchase tickets for the two-day symposium held at the Portland Museum of Art, visit the festival website. Tickets for individual films on Sunday, August 20 can be purchased through the “Get Tickets” link above. PMA members can utilize the code PMAxFORD23 to receive 25% off entry to this two-day symposium.
John Ford takes on the legend of the O.K. Corral shoot-out in this multilayered, exceptionally well-constructed western, one of the director’s very best films. Henry Fonda cuts an iconic figure as Wyatt Earp, the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, and Victor Mature gives the performance of his career as the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang. Affecting and stunningly photographed, My Darling Clementine is a story of the triumph of civilization over the Wild West from American cinema’s consummate mythmaker.