Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward BondThese were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men. |
Contents
Working for Mr Ford by Michael A Hoey | 1 |
What Would Ward Do? | 3 |
Gluteus Maximus and the Power of Feeneys Myth | 9 |
1 The Boy from Benkelman | 13 |
2 Genesis and John Wayne | 16 |
3 Jack of All Genres | 50 |
4 Boating Booze and Boule de Suif | 87 |
5 Pappy Wild Bill Jimmy and Brick | 130 |
10 One Hell of a Binge | 227 |
11 Duke Becomes the Devil Judge Becomes the Coach | 252 |
12 A Star Steers the Wagon Train | 273 |
Buenas Noches Culo del Caballo | 302 |
14 Do You Miss Ward? | 325 |
Appendix A The Films of John Ford Featuring John Wayne andor Ward Bond | 343 |
Appendix B The Films of Ward Bond | 357 |
Appendix C The Television Performances of Ward Bond | 368 |