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

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) I Am Not Your Excellency

Continuing director John Ford’s exposition of key characters, Pedro Armendariz as “a Lieutenant Of Police,” angrily dispatching his own duties as well as those of the preoccupied chief (Leo Carrillo), cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa leading the way, in The Fugitive, 1947, based on Graham Greene’s novel.

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.