The Commander

The Plot Thickens

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ford is finally in the military and his first assignment is… to make a sex ed film for soldiers! Soon he sees real combat and is injured while filming the battle of Midway. He’s nursed back to health with the help of John Wayne, while his Midway movie wins an Oscar and becomes a favorite of President Roosevelt. Ford then recuts December 7th, a movie directed by his friend and colleague Gregg Toland, to make it less racist. It wins him yet another Oscar. The brass recruit Ford for the assignment of his career: to cover the largest invasion in history. Ford goes to Normandy Beach to film D-Day, but his film detailing the invasion goes missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	By 1942, John Ford's movies had racked up dozens of Academy Award nominations,
0:35.6	and he'd won three Oscars for Best Director.
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