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- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 46 m
- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 46 m
Summary Three outlaws on the run find a dying woman in the desert who gives birth to a baby. The mother entrusts the care of the child to the three men.
Directed By: John Ford
- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 46 m
- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 46 m
3 Godfathers
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Summary Three outlaws on the run find a dying woman in the desert who gives birth to a baby. The mother entrusts the care of the child to the three men.
Directed By: John Ford
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
82
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A wonderful, sentimental western about a bad man who redeems himself.
The great Christmas western with Duke Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. as three fugitive outlaws, who, by caring for an abandoned baby, unwittingly become sagebrush equivalents for the Three Wise Men. [04 May 2001, p.C1]
The fairy-tale-like 3 Godfathers casts Wayne as one of a trio of outlaws charged with caring for a baby, and discovering responsibility and perhaps his soul (the two go hand-in-hand for Ford) in the process.
This underrated picture opens with a superbly staged bank robbery, is strikingly shot in Death Valley, and is dedicated to the great Harry Carey, who starred in Ford's 1919 version of this story and died in 1947 after appearing in Red River. [22 Aug 2004, p.63]
It is Mr. Ford's wonderful style in picturing a frontier fable that has the classic mould. His unsurpassed talent for bringing upon the motion-picture screen the nature and the drama of the great West is in itself an art.
It's a comical sentimental reworking of the journey of the Magi, with John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr as the soft-hearted outlaws. [01 Mar 2008, p.53]
The distressing Ford penchant for symbols of religiosity which had marred The Fugitive does the same disservice here.
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Production Company
Argosy Pictures
Release Date Jan 13, 1949
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating Approved
Tagline Color By Technicolor
