3 Godfathers (1948)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

drama film, Western film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 208 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three outlaws on the run take refuge in a small town and end up caring for a newborn baby. They travel across the desert to get the child to safety.

sentimentalslow-pacedspiritualearnestvisually warmmelodramaticclassictender

What happens

3 Godfathers is a 1948 American Western film in Technicolor directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz and Harry Carey Jr. The screenplay was written by Frank S. Nugent and Laurence Stallings based on the 1913 short story The Three Godfathers by Peter B. Kyne. The story is a loose retelling of the biblical Three Wise Men in an American Western context. It is a remake of the black and white 1929 movie Hell's Heroes, starring Charles Bickman, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler, directed by William Wyler. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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