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Ford

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This was made for TV. If you keep that in mind and don't expect a full blown Hollywood production you will enjoy this film. Solid acting top to bottom.

This movie shows some of the inspiration and hard work that went into the starting and successfull operation of a large buisness that is well known today. How ever it does not give the details of the actual friend ships and deallings Mr. Ford had with Thomas Edison and Mr. Harvey Firestone. But all in all I feel it is a good movie to watch and have for your personal collection for later reference to remind us that for every thought and work we do to be successful some one will be there to try and take you out. It allso shows how no family is without problems and the out come of wrong and stubbern decisions have on the ones we love.

I having been trying to find a copy of this video or dvd for nearly 20 years,having originally watched it on tv in the late 1980's, it was this min series which originally got me interested in the life of Henry Ford,I was very happy and quite amazed to find it on amazon.com,and played fine on my dvd player and it only took a couple of weeks to arrive in Tasmania, Australia.

Story very good enjoyed it. How ever the video transfer was terrible. The quality was less than that of VHS.

Others seem to have enjoyed this movie, but I found it unwatchable. And I am intensely interested in the subject matter.

Hard to believe this thing was made as recently as 1987. To me, it has the feel of a B-movie from the 1940s or even the 30s. Bad writing and bad acting. I admit that I lack that nostalgia thing when it comes to film -- I want my movies all to approach the modern standard of being convincing and realistic. I just have no taste for the hoaky and the contrived. And I expect actors to be nuanced in their performances, not like amateurs in a skit. It just looks very, very old and second rate even for something old. In my opinion, it is nowhere near as convincing or as appealing as, for example, "The Waltons," which was a period drama depicting the same era. And they turned out Waltons episodes weekly without -- I am sure -- anything like the budget of this junk.

Excellent movie. The only disappointment was the quality of the movie. It was very grainey, as if it were copied too many times.

I write this based only upon my recollection of the original airing of this movie in the 1980s, which I recorded back then on my VCR.

I grew up on Fords, and remember my dad buying them almost religiously. I was familiar with the product long before I knew anything about the man or his contribution to America's great love affair with the automobile.

Over the years, I learned about Henry Ford's implemantation of the Moving Assembly Line in the manufacture of his Model T's, and his desire to manufacture every part of every car he made.

It was this TV-Movie, originally titled "Ford: The Man and The Machine", based upon Robert Lacey's book "Ford: The MEN and machine", that revealed a Henry Ford whom I never knew.

Blended right along with his genius as a pioneering car maker, we are given Henry Ford's long-lasting open affair with a secretary 20 years his junior, his ruthless battles with his son Edsel over company policies, his antisemitism, and his early violent battles with unions. The same car maker who made the work week much more humane by limiting workers to eight hours a day, and running his plant round the clock in eight hour shifts, allowing workers to have a life outside of their jobs, also battled the unionization of his plant to the point of blood being spilled in labor disputes.

This film blends Ford's successes and failures, and juxtaposes them side by side, giving us a portrait of a man so conflicted and dysfunctional, we are left to wonder how it was that a man so troubled ever became so successful.

My only disappointment with this movie is that it gave little or no mention of Ford's friendships and business relationships with Thomas Alva Edison and Henry Firestone. These, too, were a vital part of Ford's life and work.

Perhaps it is the very conflicted nature of Henry Ford in this movie that makes this film so riveting. It should also be noted that this is one of the late Cliff Robertson's forgotten performances, which seldom gets any mention in most articles about Robertson or his filmography. But Cliff delivered a convincing performance here of a gifted and talented and also conflicted man. This performance is the stuff of Emmy Awards.

If you are at all interested in Henry Ford, buy this movie. And buckle up - the leaps from Ford's successes and virtues to his weaknesses and vices and back again will make for a wild ride through this incredible man's life.

DVD gifts are a great gift. I got this, one of three different Ford themed dvds for my Dad. He isnt one that likes to watch any thing more that once, unless he really likes it. He has watched this one atleast 4 times.

Good movie about a greedy, selfish, self-centered, womanizing, car maker.
Came in excellent condition. fast shipping too.

Good movie for those who like stories based on true events in history. Although the movie skims over the legal battle the Dodge Bros had with Ford the movie stays pretty much on track with the facts. Some things were left out of the movie; like Henry's relationship with Thomas Edison and some of the contributions Ford made to society like the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI and more; but this wasn't a documentary anyway.



















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