Red River
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Movie Reviews of Red River
Movie Review: Rollicking Action Western that Made Wayne a Huge Star
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the break out Howard Hawks movie for John Wayne that made him a huge star. Wayne's film character is established forever in this movie about a man who travels with a lone companion Walter Brennan to Texas to establish a huge cattle ranch along with a young man who survived a wagon train massacare. Moving 20 years forward, Wayne is the leader of a cattle drive to move the herd across Indian country in a desperate post war effort to get the first ever drive to Abiline. Wayne takes all the responsibility,part of his character that stays with him thoughout future films, that wears him down into a virtual tyrant that is exiled from his own herd. Wounded by his own fast shooting adopted son played wonderfully by the diminative Montgomery Cliff, Wayne vows to return and kill him. As the herd moves forward into the hostile territory, they all know that Wayne is coming up from behind and he is seeking vengence. The final scene is full of tension as Howard Hawks makes the scene more even between the small Cliff and the 6' 4" Wayne by having Wayne shot with a significant wound to give the story more of an even fight appeal. This allows Wayne, with significant blood loss, to be able to fight the modest built Cliff to an even fight. The sound track is rollicking and perfect for a cattle drive and who better for a chuck wagon cook than the imortal Walter Brennan. Look for both famous character actors Harry Carey and Harry Carey. Jr. This is the granddaddy of all cattle drive movies or TV series.Movie Review: A Western Masterpiece for Hawks and Wayne
Summary: 5 Stars
Red River definitely deserves being on the short list of the greatest Westerns ever made.
Detailing a long, arduous cattle drive along the Chisum Trail, Wayne leads the cast as a tyrannical cattle baron taking his beef out West where he will be able to fetch a good price. Montgomery Clift (in his screen debut), Walter Brennan as their devoted sidekick, and Joanne Dru (in a wonderful performance)round out the sterling cast that is given all it needs from a great script by Borden Chase and instinctive, stellar direction from Howard Hawks.
Gunfights, family disputes, the natural tension that develops between an aging but proud father and a young but capable son yearning to prove himself are all themes played out large for the viewer. Wayne, with gray hair, plays a meaner, older character than usual. Clift demonstrates the promise that would eventually see him considered one of his generations greatest actors. Brennan plays much older than his years as usual, having set the cinematic standard for crotchety curmudgeons that stick with you through thick and thin. And Dru simply puts Wayne in his place like no other, except perhaps for Maureen O'Hara. Her brief scene with Wayne is worth watching all by itself.
Red River is the kind of film that made the Western such a great movie genre, and it will continue to help set the standard for excellence for the genre for generations to come.
Movie Review: john ford said of the duke in this movie" who knew the son of a bitch could act"
Summary: 5 Stars
sorry for the swear words but john ford said them after he saw the screening of this movie. wayne found a depth that he ahd not found til "she wore a yellow ribbon" as ton dunson a cattle baron who lived by his own code even if it cost him everything, and even if it made no sence to others. this is a hard man who makes no room for people who don't meet his code of life.
in a stuning film debet, montgomery clift plays waynes adopted son who doesn't understand or like the code his "father" lives by. wayne takes his huge herd on a trail drive to a rail head in st.louis, and along the way wayne makes everyone hate him. after one of the men cause's a stampede wayne starts to horse whip him and clift , unable to take anymore stops his father. now taking control of the drive he pushes wayne out only to have wayne tell him that he will hunt him down and kill him.
clift is now the star and leading the drive , but you feel wayne in every frame as he follows the drive and hunts his son.
just like "the searchers" wayne is a person who is less than likeable but one who has a code that he will not break forv anyone, even his family. wayne is the glue that holds this film together and like i said he is gone for sometime in the film but you can feel him in every frame. not to be missed!!!!!!
Movie Review: SON OF A GUN(-MAN)
Summary: 5 Stars
Just a scene access and various subtitles as bonus features of the RED RIVER MGM DVD presentation. Meager. Furthermore, the copy chosen is not of the quality one could have expected from an eminent Hollywood studio. Shameful. Howard Hawks's RED RIVER is on my list of the ten best westerns ever made. Against the legendary John Wayne, Montgomery Clift plays the character of the Duke's adopted son. His low-keyed performance is, in my opinion, unique at that pre-Marlon Brando time. From his first appearance as a young boy on, Howard Hawks characterizes him as -a man with a gun- and gives to this manly attribute a symbolic role throughout the entire movie. Hence, the relation Montgomery Clift-John Ireland can be read at a level invisible for the blind monks of the Hays Code. A recurrent theme appearing in the Hawksian filmography is the theme of the Strong Woman. So let's admire the character of Joanne Dru who is not disturbed at all by the arrow stuck in her shoulder and who, later in the movie, is the only character who's got the guts to face John Wayne, the granite Father. RED RIVER is a movie that must absolutely have a place in your library. It's a movie that has influenced a lot Steven Spielberg and company , it's a milestone in Movie History. It's a masterpiece. A DVD zone reference.Movie Review: Howard Hawks scored big...
Summary: 5 Stars
It's my understanding that this was Howard Hawks' first western film -- his achievement is simply magnificent.I'm a western fan and like to collection DVD westerns, a long-term project limited only by my budget.
John Wayne is excellent as Thomas Dunson, although his character's decision to begin a cattle drive to Missouri without any knowledge that the railroad had already reached Abilene, Kansas is, well..., a bit hard to swallow, considering, in just fourteen years, Dunson had the strength and intelligence to build the largest ranch in Texas, gathering 9,000 head of cattle to drive to the railhead. If you can accept that, and western fans, always have to accept something of this sort...well "Red River" is top-notch entertainment.
What the DVD lacks is interviews with people long gone...what a treat it would be to hear comments from Wayne, Hawks, Clift and others.
The "Tess Millay" character, played well by the beauitful Joanne Dru, adds little to (even seems to clutter) the story, although it is and was essential for sexy females to bring sense and sensibility to male antagonists.
I also want to especially mention enjoying the performances of Walter Brennan, John Ireland and Noah Beery, Jr.