Bend Of The River
by Anthony Mann
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Actor: Arthur Kennedy, James Stewart, Jay C. Flippen, Julie Adams, Rock HudsonDirector: Anthony Mann
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Irving Glassberg
Editor: Russell F. Schoengarth
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Producer: Frank Cleaver
Writer: Borden Chase
Writer: William Gulick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Bend Of The River
Movie Review: "There is a difference between Apples and Men"
Summary: 4 Stars
Beautiful, allegorical Western from the legendary team of director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart results with fine action and great cinematography.
Stewart portrays a loner leading a wagon train westward trying to escape his renegade past. Along the way he runs into mysterious Arthur Kennedy, whom Stewart saves from a lynch mob's noose. They have great cameredrie, but that is tested when Stewart has to get supplies for his wagon pary who will not survive if they get through. Gold miners in the area need the supplies as well and offer a high price for the goods, which leads to conflict among the two men.
Mann was a director who brought alot to the Western. He matured the genre and always made the films lean and mean with alot of intelligence and social commentary. He also brought out the best in his lead actor. Stewart gives a fine performance in this film as a man who wrestles with a past that he is still not sure he has left behind. The actor handles the violent action scenes well bringing a sense of realism and hard edgeiness that other actors could hardly compare with.
The rest of the cast performs adequately including Kennedy, who is rather likeable, despite his sadistic ways. Rock Hudson is on board as a young gambler who aids Stewart and it's not surprising to see how he became a star. The two female leads are very lovely including the always likeable(and sexy) Julie Adams as the love interest of both Stewart and Kennedy. Lori Nelson portrays her sister and falls for Hudson. It's funny that both actresses are in this film because they'll both be the leading ladies to the Creature From the Black Lagoon. Adams, of course, most famous for her sexy swim in that white bathing suit in the first film and Nelson replacing her in it's sequel, "Revenge of the Creature"(1955). Even this film's soundtrack features music that will be later used in that film.
It's unfortunate that this DVD is practically bare bones with only a Theatrical Trailer, but the print is nice and the price ain't bad.
This movie is also available on Universal's Westerns of James Stewart collection which includes this and other works the actor did with Mann and some other noteable genre achievments.
Summary of Bend Of The River
An ex-outlaw and a horse thief lead a wagon train of farmers to oregon before a gold rush. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/06/2003 Starring: Lori Nelson Rock Hudson Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Anthony MannBesides being a terrific movie in its own right--and the second entry in a remarkable eight-film series teaming director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart--Bend of the River is also fascinating as a variation on one of the greatest Westerns. With or without anyone else's knowledge, screenwriter Borden Chase reworked scenes, character configurations, and much of the structure of Red River, the screenplay of which he had cowritten (from his own novel) for director Howard Hawks six years earlier. Seeing what Hawks and Mann did with some of the same scenes--a spooky night skirmish with Indians, for instance--makes for a compelling lesson in the transformative power of directorial style.
Instead of Texas and the Chisholm Trail, Bend of the River is set in the Oregon river country, with a wagon train substituting for an epic cattle drive. Wagonmaster Stewart, a man with a secret past he's determined to redeem, rescues another, not-so-ex-renegade (Arthur Kennedy) from a lynching. Stewart finds Kennedy a powerful ally in a fight but ultimately has to face him as a mortal enemy--and to revert to his old savage ways in order to save his adopted community. Along the trail, they are variously companioned and/or menaced by the likes of slick gambler Rock Hudson (compare the Cherry Valance part in Red River) and hard cases Harry (then Henry) Morgan, Royal Dano, and Jack Lambert. There's knockout scenery, as usual with Mann, and fight-to-the-death action as bracing as a plunge into an icy river. --Richard T. Jameson
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