Red River

Red River
by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson

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Actor: Coleen Gray, Joanne Dru, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan
Director: Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
Brand: WAYNE,JOHN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 133 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-11-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Still fun to watch after 60 years
Summary: 4 Stars

This is one of John Wayne's better roles, mostly because he is given a more complex character to portray. The film was released in 1948 and directed by Howard Hawks. I used to think someone did a poor job of casting women in these Hawk/Wayne films, but after re-watching this movie, I now believe that the scriptwriters just didn't know how to write realistic dialogue for women. It wasn't how they said their lines, it was that their lines were inane. Too bad. It's the only flaw in this otherwise classic western.

At the beginning of this century, Red River enjoyed a mini-revival after City Slickers mentioned and then reenacted the iconic yelping kickoff of the cattle drive. Great fun to watch them together, but start with Red River. It really explains the motivation for the characters in City Slickers.
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Summary of Red River

A cattle baron and his adopted son head the first drive over the Chisolm trail when he can't find a local market for his herd.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-MAY-2001
Media Type: DVD

Any short list of the all-time greatest Westerns is bound to include this 1948 Howard Hawks classic about an epic cattle drive. Red River features one of John Wayne's greatest performances. Like his Ethan Edwards in John Ford's 1956 masterpiece The Searchers, the Duke plays an isolated and unsympathetic man who is possessed by bitterness. Wayne is Texas rancher Tom Dunson, who adopts a young boy orphaned in an Indian massacre. That boy, Matthew Garth (played as an adult by Montgomery Clift in his screen debut), becomes Dunson's assistant and heir apparent--until Dunson's temper gets out of control during a long cattle drive and Matt intervenes to stop him. From that moment on, Dunson swears he will kill Matt. Red River has everything a great Western ought to have: a sweeping sense of history, spectacular landscapes, stampedes, gunfights, Indian attacks, and, of course, Walter Brennan as Dunson's crusty old cook and comic sidekick, Nadine Groot. As a special bonus, the film also features the legendary Harry Carey (upon whom Wayne would base some of his gestures in The Searchers) and his son Harry Carey Jr., who became a fixture in Ford and Hawks Westerns. Red River is essential for anyone who loves Westerns, or movies in general. This one's a real beaut. --Jim Emerson

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