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A great director at work . . .
No director of motion pictures extant has quite the feel for dramatic visual effects that is John Ford's. Give this master artisan a mass of troops engaged in battle and he will endow them with such sweep, spectacle and cinematic impact as to stagger the spectator's senses. From all we have heard, in United Artists' "The Horse Soldiers" Ford has outdone himself.
Student of history that he is, Ford must have found the undertaking of this Civil War epic a most rewarding task. Here was a choice, but little recounted, episode in the annals of the War Between the States which afforded him an excellent opportunity to create one of the most crucial and stirring battle scenes of that epic struggle.
An idea of the scope with which director Ford conceives his battle scenes is vividly Kj shown in the mass 2*t charge of the Southern military school students. In striking contrast, note the huge tree silhouette and John Wayne astride horse, lower right.
Ford is pictured on this page setting up a few of the important scenes for "The Horse Soldiers." He pitched camp close to where the events depicted actually took place. And the Southerners who helped the gifted director will be pleased to discover that the gallantry of the fighting men and the civilians on both sides was treated with admirable objectivity by Ford.
As could be expected, Ford did not shy away from the grimmer aspects of warfare. When asked why he shot some of his most dramatic scenes in rain and mud, director Ford answered tersely: "Good weather is for picture post cards. And war is not a picture post card."
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