The award-winning Turner Basic Motion pictures podcast “The Plot Thickens” is able to tackle the Manifest Future of filmmaker John Ford.
The brand new fifth season, titled “Decoding John Ford,” facilities on the legendary auteur greatest recognized for Westerns like “The Searchers.” Host Ben Mankiewicz dives into the mythology behind Ford’s filmography.
The seven-part podcast additionally examines Ford’s shelved WWII movie that was commissioned by the U.S. navy in 1944. Host Ben Mankiewicz travels to Europe to hint the thriller of whether or not the D-Day film exists. The season debuts on June 6, the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The season options never-before-heard archival interviews with stars like John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Woody Strode, and director Ford himself.
“John Ford is a mercurial determine. Not surprisingly given his stature, the stereotypes about Ford are incomplete,” TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz stated in a launch. “This can be a man outlined by contradictions: he revered the navy and envied those that served but bristled at authority; Ford turned generally known as one among Hollywood’s main conservatives, but one among his best movies is 1940’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath,’ one of the crucial progressive movies of basic Hollywood; and he preached loyalty but regularly berated and degraded his actors in the course of the manufacturing of his motion pictures, notably his most well-known main man, John Wayne.”
Mankiewicz continued, “Regardless of all of that, Ford was additionally contemplative, playful, and a real artist. This season of ‘The Plot Thickens’ has been spent looking for out what’s true about John Ford and what isn’t. It hasn’t been simple attending to the underside of John Ford, however as you’ll hear, it was well worth the journey.”
“Decoding John Ford” is co-produced by Novel.
In honor of the podcast’s launch, Turner Basic Motion pictures will air 4 of Ford’s movies on June 5, co-hosted by Ford’s grandson Dan Ford, adopted by a 24-hour marathon of WWII-inspired motion pictures on June 6.
As well as, Ford’s “The Searchers” (1956) will display screen in 70mm on the TCM Basic Movie Competition this weekend with a World Premiere Restoration accomplished by Warner Bros. in collaboration with The Movie Basis.
“The Plot Thickens” first debuted in Could 2020 and centered on Peter Bogdanovich. Season 2, titled “The Satan’s Sweet,” launched in June 2021 and chronicled the tumultuous manufacturing of the 1990 movie “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” Season 3 uncovered contemporary insights into the life and instances of the long-lasting Lucille Ball and debuted in October 2021. Season 4 explored the life and work of trailblazing actor Pam Grier in fall 2022.
“The Plot Thickens” returns in June 6 with “Decoding John Ford.” Try the trailer under.