March brings three films by John Ford, all from the year 1939 that were made in quick succession: STAGECOACH is the first appearance of Ford star John Wayne as a western hero. In his right hand, the rifle twirling casually around his wrist, in his left hand, the saddle of his dead horse. In YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, Henry Fonda plays the future president as a lawyer who saves two innocent brothers from the gallows. In DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play a young settler couple in the US Independence War in 1776.

John Ford: 16., 23. & 30.3. at 20:30