Warner celebrated John Ford's works last year with a couple of DVD roundups. Now, from Fox, comes a box set to rival Monument Valley in scope:
Ford made more than 50 movies at Fox from the 1920s to the early 1950s. On Dec. 4, the studio's video unit rounds up 24 of the films for the $300 "Ford at Fox" box set. Fox says the set includes 18 new-to-DVD titles (I count 16 -- two more appear to have been released).
(Update 10/13: Review of the restored Ford film "The Iron Horse," part of this DVD set.)
Three smaller $50 sets are being struck from the "Ford at Fox" motherlode: "The Essential John Ford," "John Ford’s American Comedies" and "John Ford's Silent Epics." Single discs of some of the films will street for $20.
The best-known films in the Fox Home Entertainment set already are out on DVD: "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1940), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "My Darling Clementine" (pictured, 1946) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941).
The new titles include "The Iron Horse" (1924), "Hangman’s House" (John Wayne debut, 1928), "Doctor Bull" (Will Rogers, 1933), "Seas Beneath" (1931), "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936) and "When Willie Comes Marching Home."
Warner's Ford sets from last year were the essential John Wayne-John Ford Film Collection
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