出于对公民权利的关心,致使许多影片直接涉及种族主义问题。但是也有以更加微妙的方式来表现这个问题的,甚至连西部片也出现了类似的情况。约翰·福特是西部片样式中最富于传统精神的实践家,他不采用“色情的”和弗洛伊德西部片中的那些新风格,而继续拍摄传统的牛仔片,他在1937年拍的《关山飞渡》一片,使这一样式风行一时。然而,甚至福特也受到当时进入美国电影主流的新风格、新主题的影响,尽管是无意识的。《搜索者》(他在五十年代最成功的影片,一些福特研究者认为是福特的最佳杰 Out of concern for civil rights, many films have a direct racist issue. But there are also more subtle ways to express this problem, even in the West also appeared in a similar situation. John Ford, the most traditionalist practitioner in the western style, continued shooting traditional cowboy films not in the “erotic” and new styles of Freud’s western films, but in 1937 The “Guanshan Fei Du” one, so that this style popular moment. However, even Ford was influenced by the new style and theme of the new style which was then mainstreamed into the American film, albeit unconsciously. “Seeker” (the most successful movie of his in the fifties, considered by some Ford researchers as the best of Ford