The beauty of collaboration on film! Ford got what he wanted from the actors, and what they delivered is still sublime today. Fonda’s uneasiness with his new haircut and the cologne the barber sprayed on his neck is palpable. Cathy Downs’ wordless interplay with him as he’s getting up his nerve to ask her to dance Is simply beautiful. It’s Film History. She’s a relatively obscure actress from here in the “future” of 2022, but she’s a huge part of one of the finer scenes in john ford’s filmography (and therefore, in film history). Nothing over- or underplayed, THIS is telling (through showing) a story through moving pictures. I sincerely hope Ms Downs was proud Of her performance in My Darling Clementine. She deserved to be proud.
I started fast forward 0:47, when they play “They Gather at The River” reminds me so much of me and my dad. That was one of our favorite church song chokes me up. I miss you, dad till we meet again.❤
1:27 My favorite scene is as Earp and Clementine walk together toward the open church service, the sunlight sweeps from the church and envelopes them. The cameraman told Ford that a cloud was about to pass overhead and they shouldn't shoot. Ford instead used it to create a lyrical, transcendental shot.
+Jestak Just to add--I love the tiny, knowing smile that Cathy Downs, as Clementine, gives to Henry Fonda as Wyatt at about 3:30--she knows he's about to ask her to dance! Cathy Downs didn't have a great career but this movie was her one big moment and she was simply radiant, especially in this scene.
Fonda does an identical dance (same high-steps, same music) in Ford's earlier Young Mr Lincoln (44 mins in) . Ford like it so much he re-used it in Clementine.
I don't think I could even list all the ways I love this film. Everything from the deep, rich, saturated black & white film, to Fords' clever, evocative use of angles & diagonals in so many of the scene set-ups, to the incredible performance by Henry Fonda, the ahead-of-it's-time homoerotic subtext, the stellar cast of character actors, the dramatic landscape...and on & on. Maybe my favourite film of all time.
Couldn't agree more. The golden age of Western films. And Henry Fonda was the perfect fit. Not sure there's anything you could do to improve this one, where Fonda is supported by some of the best character actors of the day, including Ward Bond and Tim Holt, and of course the excellent Walter Brennan. Fonda was memorable too in The Ox Bow Incident, and many other films, including a couple of westerns he made later with his pal Jimmy Stewart. Both of them showed their comedy skills in The Cheyenne Social Club, and again when Fonda paired with Glenn Ford in The Rounders, not to mention Fort Apache. What a career he had, but this remains one of my favorite of his many excellent performances. Together with Mister Roberts, of course. I saw Darlin' Clementine when I was a boy, the year it came out, and I've enjoyed it many times since. Especially the scene in the bar when he introduces Doc to his brothers, and when he interrupts a haircut (or was it a shave) to drag a rowdy drunk out of a nearby building, where he was shooting up the place. Wonderful actor, terrific filmmakers in those days.
"Read the good Book from cover and back and found no word 'agin dancing......" Wonderful scene and Russell Simpson gets little credit. great performance from a Ford regular.
an almost completely fabricated version of the time, but as a moving picture- just perfect. The little touches are just marvelous, especially the scenes with Alan Mowbray. His scene with Fonda and Mature in the saloon is unforgettable. And topping even that is his goodbye to the town rummy, before getting on the stagecoach. Truly Deep calling to Deep. A story I read, In the aftermath of the gunfight [never equaled ] and Ike Clanton [Walter Brennan] is told to get on his horse and get outta town, you can see he has a little difficulty . Ford , in his typical manner yelled out, "Good God man, can't you get on a horse??!" Brennan was supposed to have replied , " I have 4 Oscars, and that's one more than you have!!" [At the time]
"Shall We Gather at the River?" or simply "At the River" are the popular names for the traditional Christian hymn titled "Hanson Place, with all due respect
Thanks, but I don't think those are it. The tune at 2:15 of this video is very simple: (verse) mi-mi-do-mi-re-re re-re-ti-re-do-do mi-mi-do-mi-re-re sol-fa-re-mi-do (chorus) sol-la-sol-mi-do sol-la-sol sol-la-sol-mi-do mi-re-do (This song is also used in the dance scene in Abe Lincoln in Illinois) Hope to ID it one day.
Okay, got it. It's Hello Susie Brown or the Cuckoo Waltz, but the version from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag (not other performances!): th-cam.com/video/88cZYUwzAHE/w-d-xo.html
The beauty of collaboration on film! Ford got what he wanted from the actors, and what they delivered is still sublime today. Fonda’s uneasiness with his new haircut and the cologne the barber sprayed on his neck is palpable. Cathy Downs’ wordless interplay with him as he’s getting up his nerve to ask her to dance Is simply beautiful. It’s Film History. She’s a relatively obscure actress from here in the “future” of 2022, but she’s a huge part of one of the finer scenes in john ford’s filmography (and therefore, in film history). Nothing over- or underplayed, THIS is telling (through showing) a story through moving pictures. I sincerely hope Ms Downs was proud Of her performance in My Darling Clementine. She deserved to be proud.
I started fast forward 0:47, when they play “They Gather at The River” reminds me so much of me and my dad. That was one of our favorite church song chokes me up. I miss you, dad till we meet again.❤
Loved this old time movie.
1:27 My favorite scene is as Earp and Clementine walk together toward the open church service, the sunlight sweeps from the church and envelopes them. The cameraman told Ford that a cloud was about to pass overhead and they shouldn't shoot. Ford instead used it to create a lyrical, transcendental shot.
The most beautiful scene in a great, great movie.
+Jestak Just to add--I love the tiny, knowing smile that Cathy Downs, as Clementine, gives to Henry Fonda as Wyatt at about 3:30--she knows he's about to ask her to dance!
Cathy Downs didn't have a great career but this movie was her one big moment and she was simply radiant, especially in this scene.
@@Jestak Two masters at work - and, given all the time they need, by the director and the writer. :)
Fonda does an identical dance (same high-steps, same music) in Ford's earlier Young Mr Lincoln (44 mins in) . Ford like it so much he re-used it in Clementine.
Beautiful innocence of man and women
So Awesome seeing his leg come up!!!!
One of Ford's very best scenes, i especially love them walking to Gather at the River, all so wholesome and she's ideal.
That was a movie scene that you enjoy seeing for the first time.
I don't think I could even list all the ways I love this film. Everything from the deep, rich, saturated black & white film, to Fords' clever, evocative use of angles & diagonals in so many of the scene set-ups, to the incredible performance by Henry Fonda, the ahead-of-it's-time homoerotic subtext, the stellar cast of character actors, the dramatic landscape...and on & on. Maybe my favourite film of all time.
johnnydtractive What's the name of the song from the dance scene? I like it very much!
+Andreea Mitrescu I believe that it is an arrangement of a tune called the "Cuckoo Waltz."
Thank you!
Couldn't agree more. The golden age of Western films. And Henry Fonda was the perfect fit. Not sure there's anything you could do to improve this one, where Fonda is supported by some of the best character actors of the day, including Ward Bond and Tim Holt, and of course the excellent Walter Brennan. Fonda was memorable too in The Ox Bow Incident, and many other films, including a couple of westerns he made later with his pal Jimmy Stewart. Both of them showed their comedy skills in The Cheyenne Social Club, and again when Fonda paired with Glenn Ford in The Rounders, not to mention Fort Apache. What a career he had, but this remains one of my favorite of his many excellent performances. Together with Mister Roberts, of course. I saw Darlin' Clementine when I was a boy, the year it came out, and I've enjoyed it many times since. Especially the scene in the bar when he introduces Doc to his brothers, and when he interrupts a haircut (or was it a shave) to drag a rowdy drunk out of a nearby building, where he was shooting up the place. Wonderful actor, terrific filmmakers in those days.
"homoerotic subtext" - in your mind, I expect
One of the best actors ever.
"Read the good Book from cover and back and found no word 'agin dancing......"
Wonderful scene and Russell Simpson gets little credit. great performance from a Ford regular.
Pure Americana,,,,glorious!
Some glorious high knee action there from the marshal. Marvellous.🇬🇧
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Truly a John Ford western
A brilliant depection of a romantic encounter in a frontier town.
Beautiful scene!!
The first minute and 45 seconds are priceless.
Terrific simple metaphor for building a community
この映画で一番好きなシークエンス…😊
an almost completely fabricated version of the time, but as a moving picture- just perfect. The little touches are just marvelous, especially the scenes with Alan Mowbray. His scene with Fonda and Mature in the saloon is unforgettable. And topping even that is his goodbye to the town rummy, before getting on the stagecoach. Truly Deep calling to Deep. A story I read, In the aftermath of the gunfight [never equaled ] and Ike Clanton [Walter Brennan] is told to get on his horse and get outta town, you can see he has a little difficulty . Ford , in his typical manner yelled out, "Good God man, can't you get on a horse??!" Brennan was supposed to have replied , " I have 4 Oscars, and that's one more than you have!!" [At the time]
I just saw this last night and it's full of some many beautiful quite moments
Sam Peckinpah's favorite Western.
Mature gives Doc Holliday, melancholic and tormented image
That Cathy Downs was so pretty !
And they seem like a regular match, age-wise, as characters - but she is almost 19 years younger (b. March 1924) than Henry Fonda (b. May 1905) !
This American culture.
Any fan of the Back To The Future series, particularly BTTF III, will find this scene strangely familiar.
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What's the name of the song in the dance scene?
Anyone know the name of the song at the dance? I've been told it's "Hello Susan Brown," but it doesn't match with other performances of that song.
It may be an old Gospel song, Down to the River.
"Shall We Gather at the River?" or simply "At the River" are the popular names for the traditional Christian hymn titled "Hanson Place, with all due respect
Thanks, but I don't think those are it. The tune at 2:15 of this video is very simple: (verse) mi-mi-do-mi-re-re re-re-ti-re-do-do mi-mi-do-mi-re-re sol-fa-re-mi-do (chorus) sol-la-sol-mi-do sol-la-sol sol-la-sol-mi-do mi-re-do (This song is also used in the dance scene in Abe Lincoln in Illinois) Hope to ID it one day.
Okay, got it. It's Hello Susie Brown or the Cuckoo Waltz, but the version from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag (not other performances!): th-cam.com/video/88cZYUwzAHE/w-d-xo.html
oh sorry i thought you meant the hymn not the dance thanks
Didn't Henry Fonda use the same dance steps in "Fort Apache", another John Ford film?
Not exactly. The same dance steps were in "Young Lincoln". In "Fort Apache" Fonda did another dance.
"Mac sei mai stato innamorato......nooo!...ho fatto il barista tutta la vita"
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The nice days of America ! How she has degenerated ..........
Lord have mercy !
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Awesome movie 👍🏼