Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

GazerRise Fantastic!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

michael thompson I've just watched this film, and want to write a review, but don't know what to say, yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!John Ford and John Wayne, a recipe for success, and was it ?, yes it was.Read no further if you don't want to know more details about this film.With around 15 to 20 minutes of this film until the end, if you aren't on the edge of your seat, and crying your heart out, you ain't human.John Wayne is left in charge of a baby, he stumbles and falls after a trek through the desert with his bank robber friends, who die from thirst on the way with him, he reads from a bible then throws it away. Wayne should have got an Oscar for these scenes.As John Wayne stumbles, her carries the little baby in his arms because he made a promise to the baby's dying mother.Then John Wayne comes to a town, places the baby wrapped in clothing on the bar.Its a great and very human film people, watch it, and be prepared to cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Byrdz Am currently reading "Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company" by Harry Carey, Jr. Chapter One deals with the ordeal of making "The Three Godfathers". This is "Dobe"'s first film made with "Uncle Jack" and quite a baptism by fire it proved to be. Not only was it actually filmed in the heat of Death Valley but it was directed by a sadistic bully of a man who loved to make all of his actors look and feel stupid when not actually on camera. Carey came to love John Ford but how ? I have no idea. All this aside. The Three Godfathers has an entertaining story. William, Robert and Pedro all do just fine as do Ward Bond, Ben Johnson (in a very tiny role) and all the other supporting players. Jane Darwell as a man-starved desert woman with an amazing laugh is terrific. Who is that lovely little woman playing Pearly Sweet's wife ? It is none other than MAE MARSH ... the "little sister" in Birth of a Nation ! The other reviews have pretty much said all that needs saying about the story, religious parallels, implausible and distracting staggering and falling but hey, they worked. I liked the ending of the silent version with Carey, Sr. better but this one was OK too. . I was surprised to note that "Ice Age" can be seen as remake but then, why not,it sort of is.Entertaining film and watching the support given by Wayne to his co-stars is great knowing what was happening, director wise.

david_in_ky This is one of my go to movies. It delivers on several levels...plenty of action, good character development and an underlying moral story. I compare this to the best of John Ford's....it just does not get much notoriety.The men against the wilderness and the eventual reclamation of the human spirit is a wonderful story.The film does a great job showcasing each stars talent...Ward Bond does his usual excellent job. John Wayne plays his character very low key. Harry Cary Jr. gives us a preview of his skills to be. Pedro Armenderiz pulls you into believing him. Catch him about 15 years later in From Russia With Love, playing off and standing up well with Sean Connery.Watch it with your kids. It entertains on many levels.

MisterWhiplash 3 Godfathers is beautifully directed, as are most of John Ford's pictures, but I wonder how much the story benefits from having all of the Jesus/Christmas/3-Wise-Men allegory attached to it. What makes it work isn't so much the religious connotations, which if anything are actually depicted by Ford as hallucinations and mirage-like visions (the bit where Duke comes across the mule at the end of the cavern is one such moment), but in how the supposed 'bad-guys' are humanized through their arduous trek through the desert and lack of water and through the simple act of taking care of a newborn. While one might feel the shiver of a contemporary 'comedy' like 3 Men & a Baby as Robert, William and Pedro take care of... Robert William Pedro Hightower (because, you see, the mother named the baby after the three men around her as she faded from life), it surprises how touching some of this really comes off, and how the usual 'bad guys will have to get justice' is kind of turned on its head in the face of innocence.Wayne, Harry Carey Jr. and Pedro Armendariz are bank robbers who unintentionally blow their cover to a friendly Marshall, and are tailed by them more or less as they run out of town into the desert. Following a long sequence that seems like it probably served as inspiration for a similar sequence in the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Wayne and his two guys go through the desert- young guy Carey with a bullet wound- and lacking water and/or proper water tower. Then they come across a derailed wagon, a woman about to give birth, and are saddled with her baby. This could be handled really contrived by any other director, but John Ford takes his time with the direction, drawing out shots of the long walking stretches and tired but determined faces of Duke and Carey and Armendariz, and the sparse setting they're in, and it's sometimes really breathtaking film-making.The only problem then, from my perspective, is the occasional spouts of sentiment, sometimes verging into flat-out sentimentality, peppered by the obvious religious allusions. This works up to a point, actually, when regarding Carey Jr's character who has a lot of attachment to the good-book and quotes from that as much as the baby-instruction book. But only when it gets in the way of the story, and starts to turn it into an unintentional allegory and near Christmas movie, does it get a little silly. And yet I can't disregard how well crafted 3 Godfathers is, how (dare I say it) John Wayne fills in this role better than usual, if about as good as he could get with 'Pappy' Ford at the helm, and some really juicy, memorable cinematic moments in the Western genre. In fact, it's such a well-told story I am almost willing to forgive the film for any of its faults- almost. It's actually kind of, well, sweet, which is rare for a fugitive bank-robber flick which wallows in the horror of nature that is the desert which, in a sense, automatically puts into proper perspective the scope of the Marshall vs. the 3 criminals.