John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: Australia
- Producer: Claude Gonzalez , Frans Vandenburg
- Production companies: Third Street Steps Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 2/1/2021
- Run time: 96 min.
Movie description
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.
