Review of John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

. . . when he cravenly (and privately) recanted his public stand against McCarthy's original Witch Hunters in the 1950's. As THE MAN WHO INVENTED AMERICA points out, Ford was a self-confessed Progressive Socialist. Surely he would have headed any logical "Black List" of banned Red Commie U.S. film people had he not sung like a canary, dooming all of his fellow Liberals to bankruptcy, divorce, exile and suicide. As he saw the young children of his former drinking buddies starving to death, stool pigeon Ford felt compelled to spend his free time between movies wallowing in alcoholic benders, JOHN FORD reveals. Karma ordained that this malingering miscreant be no exception to the "Snitches Get Stitches" Golden Rule, as Japanese shrapnel and botched eye surgeries haunted him until his dying day. However, unlike Saint Joan, Ford never recanted his recantation.