“3 Bad Men”(1926) is considered an influence on Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s “Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress”(1958)🇯🇵which in turn inspired George Lucas’s “Star Wars” series
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Olive Borden AKA “The Joy Girl” began her career as a one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1925. She would go on to act in approximately 65 films over the course of her 10yr film career.
#SilentFlickerSunday #3BadMen #OliveBorden #SilentFilm
Yeah… sorry about the use of racial slurs and cross burning and such in this. For all of the very good and cool things about this being a western from 1925, it’s still a western from 1925.
#SilentFlickerSunday #3BadMen
Compared to a lot of other John Ford westerns, this one really stands out to me b/c of the humorous parts
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“3 Bad Men” (1926) would be John Ford’s final #SilentFilm western of the silent era. He wouldn’t direct another western until over a decade later with “Stagecoach” (1939)
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Our final film of the night is “3 Bad Men” (1926) (youtu.be/8qQrKkoykZQ?...) directed & produced by John Ford and starring #SilentFilm megastar George O’Brien
#SilentFlickerSunday #3BadMen #JohnFord #GeorgeOBrien #SilentFilm
Fotograma del filme
#3BadMen te gustará si eres un amante del cine inquieto y curioso y te animas a bucear en los inicios del 7º arte.
Huye si no eres capaz de disfrutar con el cine mudo o solo te interesa el cine con CGI.
Lou Tellegen interpreta al villano Layne Hunter
Además el equilibrio entre las escenas más intensas y el alivio cómico es magistral.
En cuanto a los temas, #3BadMen nos anticipa la redención a través del sacrificio, la corrupción del poder, la importancia de la comunidad, preocupaciones constantes en la obra de Ford.
J. Farrell MacDonald como Mike Costigan
John Ford había empezado a dirigir en 1917 y antes de #3BadMen ya había realizado más de 50 películas. El film no fue un éxito rotundo, como si lo había sido #TheIronHorse (1924) pero tiene la base de todo lo que después Ford consolidó en su cine sonoro.
Don’t think I’ve ever watched a John Ford silent film, which is odd considering how many of the director’s films I’ve watched over and over and over (and over) again.
Anyhow, just watched #3BadMen. Villain is a bit cartoony, but overall the movie itself is terrific. I loved it.
