Biography

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Made in Cloverland

Cloverland founder John Cork is the producer of documentaries such as You Belong to Me: Race, Sex, and Murder in the South, Murnau, Borzage, and Fox, Carmen Miranda: That Girl From Rio, The Duke at Fox, and over thirty documentary shorts exploring the behind-the-scenes stories and creators of the James Bond films.

He has co-author of three books on the James Bond phenomenon produced under license from Eon Productions: James Bond, The Legacy (with Bruce Scivally), Bond Girls Are Forever (with Maryam d’Abo), and The James Bond Encyclopedia (with Collin Stutz). For Ian Fleming Publications, he penned introductions for 2017 hardback reprints of three of the original James Bond novels (Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Goldfinger).

From 1992—1999, Cork edited the print edition of Goldeneye Magazine for The Ian Fleming Foundation, which he helped found.

Cork wrote the screenplay for the Civil Rights drama, The Long Walk Home starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek. He subsequently worked as a screenwriter for Paramount, TriStar, Walt Disney, Universal, and various other companies.

John Cork is currently producing The Secret History of James Bond podcast under sponsorship of The Ian Fleming Foundation.

The lavishly housed package gains more praise for its assortment of extra features. A ... fascinating documentary on the Duke ... and an interesting piece on the real-life historical background to the drama.

Chris McEneany

AVForums | The Comancheros

The featurettes, produced by Cloverland...excellent. This release ... generates the same kind of excitement movie buffs used to feel when Criterion first started releasing special edition laserdiscs...a DVD Talk Collector's Series Title

Stuart Galbraith IV

DVD Talk | The Robe

The big one for 2008: just as they did with the “Ford at Fox” collection in 2007, Fox Home Entertainment has raised the bar for home video releases with this set devoted to the work of F. W. Murnau and Frank Borzage, two more masters on the payroll of classical Hollywood’s most director-friendly studio.

David Kehr

New York Times | Murnau, Borzage And Fox

Fox has seen fit to load the disc with supplemental materials that alone are worth the price of admission. As such, The Day the Earth Stood Still easily earns my highest recommendation.