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The Plot Thickens

The Araner

The Plot Thickens

TCM Podcasts

Tv & Film, Film History

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

John Ford buys a yacht, where he cavorts, drinks and vacations. But he also keeps an eye on the looming threat in Europe, and uses his new vessel to enlist in the Naval Reserve. He rises through Hollywood and turns his friends into stars, including John Wayne – though he's increasingly abusive towards them on the set. As the ‘30s dissolve into the ‘40s, Ford directs a remarkable string of movies, winning back-to-back Oscars (though he doesn’t show up to the ceremonies). Then war breaks out, and he’s shipped overseas to cover the front. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.8

on the far edge of Portland, Maine, where John Ford was born, there's a shoreline park called the Eastern Promenot.

0:38.0

Locals call it the prom.

0:40.0

They come here to jog or bike or walk their dogs on a path along the water.

0:46.0

Mostly though, they just sit and stare.

0:50.0

That's because beyond the sailboats and past the tiny islands just off the coast,

0:56.8

the horizon looks like it goes on forever.

1:01.0

John Ford spent a long time staring out at that horizon as a kid, breathing in the scent of salt and seaweed.

1:09.0

I enjoy the sheet very, very much.

1:12.0

If you're at sea, you're free. enjoyed the sheet very much.

1:13.3

If you're at sea, you're free.

1:17.1

So years later, in 1934, when Ford had a little money,

1:22.2

he bought himself a boat.

1:24.0

More accurately, a yacht, though Ford refused to call it that.

1:29.0

A yacht was to Hollywood.

1:32.0

He named his not a yacht, the Arriner, after the Arran Islands in Ireland,

1:38.4

where his grandmother was from. Being on the Arriner meant you were in Ford's special little group, his inner circle.

1:47.0

He called the group the Emerald Bay Yacht Club.

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