especially for a movie released in 1939, that’s because its director had survived a similar real-life experience. That would be Galveston native King Vidor, son of a successful lumber merchant ...

King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an ...

We hear the wilderness and it hears us.