Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen: Cinemascope at 60

Ford’s study of a decidedly minor historical figure - beloved West Point instructor Marty Maher (Power) - is nonetheless one of the director’s major efforts, and his first in CinemaScope. “Rich with nostalgia, family feeling, and sentimentality. It’s given density by...a kind of mysticism that, as in How Green Was My Valley, makes the past seem more alive than the present.” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)