3 Godfathers

(1948)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 214 votes

Genres: Western

Year: 1948

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джон Форд

Cast: Джон Уэйн, Pedro Armendáriz, Гарри Кэри мл., Уорд Бонд, Мэй Марш, Милдред Нэтвик, Jane Darwell, Гай Кибби, Dorothy Ford, Ben Johnson

Plot

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

Fugitive bank robbers Robert (John Wayne), William (Harry Carey Jr.) and Pedro (Pedro Armendáriz) stand at a desert grave. Caring for the newborn infant of the woman they just buried will ruin any chance of escape. But they won't go back on their promise to her. They won't abandon little Robert William Pedro. Director John Ford's Western retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and thematic masterpiece. Ford adds color to his feature-film palette, capturing stunning vistas via cinematographer Winton C. Hoch, who would win two of his three Academy Awards for Ford films. Again, populist-minded Ford asserts that even men of dissolute character can follow that inner star of Bethlehem to their own redemption.