I don’t know if The Sun Shines Bright (1953) is John Ford’s most neglected film—there are numerous candidates on the Old Master’s résumé—but it is the one he cited as his personal favorite. Now it’s available on Blu-ray and DVD in a sparkling transfer from Olive Films. Unlike its forerunner Judge Priest (1934), the Will Rogers vehicle that fell into the public domain, this film is seldom revived. What’s more, Olive is offering the complete 100-minute version as Ford intended it, not the one that Republic Pictures’ Herbert J. Yates cut by ten minutes back in 1953. (Some twenty years ago Republic stumbled onto the uncut negative, which was meant for overseas distribution, and used it...
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- 4/3/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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