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The Iron Horse

1924

John Ford

George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Will Walling ...

7.2

770

Western The Iron Horse was John Ford's 50th film and remains his most celebrated of the silent era. Its theme of enterprise and achievement, its open-air locations and setting in a vigorous and pioneering past proved just the subject to stimulate the young director's talent. The sheer scale of the film surpassed all other Westerns of the silent era, and established Ford as one of the leading directors in the industry. The film combines a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Sragow The New Yorker	"Enjoyable (...) Many hallmarks of Ford’s later career appear here in vaudevillian form"	POS

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