Ford Focus: Joseph McBride on 7 WOMEN (1965)

John Ford's biographer on restoring the reputation and missing footage from Ford's beleaguered swan song

Today the Warner Archive is releasing John Ford’s 7 Women (1965) on Blu-ray, from a 4K scan of the original camera negative. This is a cause for celebration, as this is the first home video release since the 1992 laserdisc. Ford’s final film is one of bracing nihlism, in which a Protestant mission in a Chinese border town is besieged by a militaristic w…