Fugitive, The (1947) - (Movie Clip) I Am Not Your Excellency

Fugitive, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Baptize Thee

Director John Ford’s artful second movement, as a Mexican village, from which all priests have been driven away, assembles for ceremonies officiated by Henry Fonda, himself hiding from the law, Dolores Del Rio the grateful mother, Gabriel Figueroa’s camera still the main feature, in The Fugitive, 1947.

Fugitive, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) For Murder And Theft

The relevance of the scene not yet clear, as director John Ford introduces a new character, Ward Bond credited as “El Gringo,” also a fugitive, but not the priest title-character (Henry Fonda), arriving at a Mexican port, shot on location, in the Hollywood version of Graham Greene’s novel, The Fugitive, 1947.

Fugitive, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) First Told In The Bible

Opening narration by Ward Bond, John Ford directing from Dudley Nichols’ sanitized adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, Henry Fonda the title character, with Dolores Del Rio, clear from the start that Ford’s chief interest is Gabriel Figueroa’s virtuosic cinematography, from The Fugitive, 1947.