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.