John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows
2021, English. Directed by Claude Gonzalez & Frans Vandenburg.
John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood’s most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers, John Villiers Farrow (1904 -1963). Part mystery, part biography, part film noir – the documentary follows the stranger than fiction story of this Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker. As one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic f igures, Farrow was the director of some 50 films; a sailor, a poet, a war hero, best-selling author, a religious scholar, a family man and a philanderer – a man who lived many lives – yet who left behind no memoirs, no interviews and no archival footage – and who today is only a shadow in the pages of film history.
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If you liked John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows, try Sidney, Seduced and Abandoned, Directed by John Ford.
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John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows (2021) was directed by Claude Gonzalez and Frans Vandenburg and stars Margaret Pomeranz, David Stratton, Phillip Noyce.