3 Godfathers (1948)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

John Ford

Escritores:

Laurence Stallings (screenplay) and
Frank S. Nugent (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 diciembre 1948 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

John Ford's Legend of the Southwest!

Plot:

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert...

Plot Keywords:

Desert | Baby | Moral Transformation | Death Of Title Character | Prison

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Visual Poetry

Reparto

John Wayne	...	Robert Marmaduke Hightower
Pedro Armendáriz	...	Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte (as Pedro Armendariz)
Harry Carey Jr.	...	William Kearney ('The Abilene Kid')
Ward Bond	...	Perley 'Buck' Sweet
Mae Marsh	...	Mrs. Perley Sweet
Mildred Natwick	...	The Mother
Jane Darwell	...	Miss Florie
Guy Kibbee	...	Judge
Dorothy Ford	...	Ruby Latham
Ben Johnson	...	Posse man #1
Charles Halton	...	Oliver Latham
Hank Worden	...	Deputy Curly
Jack Pennick	...	Luke (the conductor)
Fred Libby	...	Deputy
Michael Dugan	...	Posse man #2

También conocida como:

Three Godfathers (USA) (alternative spelling)
Tres hijos del diablo (Argentina) [es]
Tres padrinos (Spain) (literal title) [es]

Duración:

106 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Argentina:Atp | West Germany:12 (f) (original rating) | West Germany:o.Al. (re-rating) | Germany:6 | USA:Approved (certificate #13312) | Canada:14A (video rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1995)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Compañía:

Argosy Pictures

Trivialidades:

For the scene where Deputy Curly (Hank Worden) has trouble pulling a mule about a train, director John Ford rigged the reins to pull backwards whenever Worden pulled forward.

Errores:

Continuidad: After the three godfathers rob the bank, a covered wagon is seen passing by them as they board their horses but in the next scene they are riding in front of the wagon.

Citas:

[Buck has just donned his vest, revealing his sheriff's badge]
Perley 'Buck' Sweet: I'll be seeing you boys... prob'ly.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

Banda de Sonido:

Streets of Laredo

Visual Poetry

I changed my mind several times about the merits of this often neglected Ford Western. Despite the eloquent and persuasive praises by Gallagher, McBride, and Sarris, somehow it failed to win me over. However, having seen it recently I was genuinely struck by its ravishing cinematography, beautifully shot by Winton C Hoch, who would later photograph "The Searchers". The cinematography is astonishing and this is hardly surprising since Ford was a poet of images. If you disregard the film's religious and biblical passages and focus on its visuals, it becomes an inspiring, extraordinary work. To paraphrase McBride in his book on Ford, the simplicity of the film's emotion and sentiment is balanced by the sophistication of its visual style. For this reason, I think it is one of Ford's masterworks, but it is not for everybody.