oscaralbert Review of Becoming John Ford

Becoming John Ford (2007 Video)

The music for this John Ford documentary . . .

[17 January 2017]

. . .was written by composer Christopher Caliendo, who also scored 136 minutes of orchestral instrumentals for Director Ford's initial big hit, THE IRON HORSE (though you'd never know this from looking at Mr. Caliendo's filmography here). Some web sites are stuck in the 1900s, so if some random bozo tinkled on the piano for 15 minutes in the 1970s and produced ditties that could be endlessly looped for a foreign VHS tape pirated release of an American Silent Classic, their information is NEVER updated to reflect the fact that in 2007, Fox paid Mr. Caliendo tons of money for his work on a two-disc Deluxe DVD set for IRON HORSE, which involved hiring tons of orchestra members and renting the Capitol Records recording studio used in the 1900s by Frank Sinatra (all of this thoroughly documented in a "Bonus Feature" which is part of the IRON HORSE set, SCORING THE PAST: THE IRON HORSE SESSIONS WITH CHRISTOPHER CALIENDO). Fox spent more millions on the film restoration of THE IRON HORSE. But after the 2016 voting, History is irrelevant; some folks were just ahead of the curve in realizing this.