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Print the legend?(Movie review)
"IF THE FACTS don't fit the legend, print the legend," John Ford is supposed to have said. In fact he didn't: but one of his characters certainly did, at the conclusion of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, when it was decided that it would be better if the world didn't know who had really shot poor Liberty. But this is hardly the message of the film. After all, most of the movie has been a narrative of the "real" story.
This sequence is one of many in Ford's work that reveal an uneasy relationship between myth and reality. Just about all Ford's Wyatt Earp film My Darling Clementine is romantic fiction, yet the director knew exactly what had occurred at the ...
- James Bradley, son of Iwo Jima flag raiser John "Doc" Bradley and author of...
- Magazine article from: Frozen Food Age September 1, 2005 700+ words
James Bradley, son of Iwo Jima flag raiser John "Doc" Bradley and author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys, will be the speaker at the American Frozen Food...
- They landed at Iwo Jima 55 years ago.(Metropolitan)(District)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Mizejewski, Gerald February 20, 2000 700+ words
...at a dinner for about 600 Iwo Jima veterans and their families...morning at 11 a.m. at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington Ridge Park. Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipients...Special guests include James Bradley, son of one of the flag...
- Six Men And a Flag: How one episode on Iwo Jima reshaped three...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Auchincloss, Kenneth May 29, 2000 700+ words
...Our Fathers," James Bradley (with Ron Powers...raised the flag over Iwo Jima in the famous picture...his life he put Iwo Jima out of his mind...to steam toward Iwo Jima. But once the...of Our Fathers James Bradley with Ron Powers...
- Eastwood and Spielberg to bring Iwo Jima to big screen.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) July 12, 2004 700+ words
...the Second World War battle of Iwo Jima, says America's TV Guide. Eastwood...adaptation of a book co-written by James Bradley - whose father was one of the six soldiers who raised the flag at Iwo Jima - for Spielberg's company DreamWorks...
- Eastwood, Spielberg honor `Heroes of Iwo Jima'.
- Newspaper article from: Zap2It.com July 9, 2004 700+ words
...Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima," according to The Hollywood...Flags" is based on the book by James Bradley, whose father John Bradley was...during the winter 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. The younger Bradley was unaware...
- Raising of flag on Iwo Jima a riveting story.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bauers, Sandy July 18, 2000 700+ words
...was only after James Bradley's father died...flag-raising on Iwo Jima, but he would...to learn more. James Bradley's book, "Flags...acting heroically. James Bradley figures that...real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys...
- Flags of Our Fathers.(Letters from Iwo Jima)(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Sklar, Robert March 22, 2007 700+ words
...on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers...Letters from Iwo Jima Produced by Clint...and the battle of Iwo Jima, but which are...and Letters from Iwo Jima in a newspaper...the same title by James Bradley, a son of the...
- `Flags of Our Fathers' tells story behind famous Iwo Jima photo.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bauers, Sandy July 11, 2000 700+ words
...was only after James Bradley's father died...flag-raising on Iwo Jima, but he would...to learn more. James Bradley's book, "Flags...acting heroically. James Bradley figures that...real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys...
Source: HighBeam Research, Print the legend?(Movie review)