Directed by John Ford (1971, revised 2006 Peter Bogdanovich & scr)

With Orson Welles narrating, and commentary from John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Spielberg, Scorsese, Walter Hill, Harry Carey. Ford remains the director who's won the Oscar more than any other director (four). Clint Eastwood's clearly a fan, too.

He sounded like a bit of a bastard, singling out actors and ridiculing them, to produce a sort of on-set anxiety. We see a long single take from Two Rode Together in which he's previously told both Stewart and Richard Widmark how great the other one is. Other tricks were to only rehearse up to a point, to preserve the immediacy of the scene, and to get first or second takes for the same reason. And to remove dialogue as much as possible (including, memorably, tearing pages of script out).

Ford had some kind of romantic relationship with Katharine Hepburn, who had impressed him by standing up to him. Peter posits (and Clint agrees) that it's because of this that he made such a great series of films in 1939 - 41 - Stagecoach, Young Mr Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk (farmers struggle with Indians and the Revolutionary War), The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home (perilous voyage of British ship), Tobacco Road (hillbillies in Georgia) and How Green Was My Valley.

How Green Was My Valley

Not from the film, in fact, but a good photo from John R Hamilton