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It was produced by Ford and Bernard Smith from a screenplay by Janet Green and John McCormick, based on the short story "Chinese Finale" by Norah Lofts. The musical score was conducted by Elmer Bernstein and the cinematography was handled by Joseph LaShelle .
Nevertheless, Ford's working methods never ceased to surprise some of his cast and crew members, particularly producer Bernard Smith, who, according to Anna Lee, "would come over to the long table (where the cast gathered) with new pages hot off the wire.
- John Ford, Wingate Smith
- Anne Bancroft
7 Women: Directed by John Ford. With Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson. In 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
Box office. $50 million. How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy. Originally filmed in true three-lens Cinerama ...
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, [3] and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur.
John Ford's 7 Women has caused a slight stir in the trade by opening on the bottom half of a double bill with Burt Kennedy's The Money Trap, by all odds the daily double of the decade.
He gambled with his reputation as an efficient, no-nonsense helmer-for-hire in the production of “The Iron Horse” (1924), his over-budget schedule-busting epic about the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. Ford was pressured by the studio but allowed to finish, and the film became a huge financial and critical success.”
