The leftos must be driving down his rating. He was in the top five all time directors. The power of his work is sublime.  If you don't know about John Ford, then sign up for remedial education.

One of the best directors in the genre of westerns. The Searchers is a classic!

If you don't think this guy is great, you just don't like movies.

Top rate director and artist behind the camera.

I'm not a particular John Ford enthusiast- many of his films suffer from sentimentality and a simplistic approach to American history,while criticisms of his unhelpful portrayal of Native American "Indians" and tendency to rowdy childish humour are valid- but he was still one of the major directors,and a poet of the screen.His relatively lowly position,on an American website,comes as a surprise.The Searchers is the greatest,most majestic western,The Man who Shot Liberty Valance has a lovely elegiac,nostalgic quality,My Darling Clementine is another timeless classic,Stagecoach virtually defined the Western (so influential and copied it now seems somewhat cliched)and finally made a star of John Wayne.The Quiet Man,a deservedly popular romance,may be loaded with Irish blarney,and seems a touch misogynistic,but makes gorgeous,evocative use of the beautiful Galway settings -Ford always had a great eye for landscape,and not just Monument Valley- and has a marvellous,tender lyricism.And there are other longstanding favourites well worth seeing.