Just Pals

I remember reading a quote from someone who worked with John Ford late in his career that Ford understood how to assemble individual sequences, but he didn’t really understand the connective tissue from one sequence to the next (it was either one of his screenwriters or his editor, I can’t remember). Anyway, with that piece of information in the back of my mind, a lot of the looseness of Ford’s earliest films ends up making a lot of sense. He was making short feature length films (almost all...