Red River
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Movie Reviews of Red River
Movie Review: One of the greatest Westerns of all time...
Summary: 5 Stars
Red River is easily one of the greatest Westerns of all time, and it is surely the definitive cattle-drive movie. Even though its script has some flaws (especially the ending, which I find somewhat unrealistic), the fantastic scenery, music, acting and direction by Howard Hawks more than makes up for it. In Red River, Tom Dunson (John Wayne) builds a ranch from scratch alongside his adopted son, Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). By the time Matt returns from the war, Dunson has built a huge ranch, but is unable to sell his cattle in the South, because there is no demand for it. Consequently, Dunson plans the largest, longest cattle-drive ever attempted. As they progess, however, the normally strict yet somewhat tolerant Dunson becomes a tyrant, and Matt is eventually forced to take over command, leaving the angered Dunson behind, vowing to kill him.
Anyhow, this movie features wonderful performances from Wayne as the tyrannical leader and from Clift (in his first movie) as the milder son. But the real star of this movie is the landscape, and it is a must-see if only for the beautiful shots of the American West and the cattle progressing across it.
Movie Review: An unbeatable Western!
Summary: 5 Stars
The masterpiece of Howard Hawks is a true homage to Western but it goes far beyond. Few film have been able to show in its whole meaning the epic of the Western with its little miseries, sorrowful mood, nostalgic vision and incandescent fervor in order to achieve the well expected dream to follow his bliss. In fourteen years Dunson could materialize his illusions and reach in the meantime to become the biggest Ranch of Texas from virtually nothing.
Along this epic journey he will meet a teenager Matthew Grath; and obviously he works out as the father he never was, after loosing his beloved couple in a bloody ambush of the Comanche's tribe.
Red River is one of the most superb westerns ever made, due the implicit resolution to carry all those animals along one thousand miles until Missouri.
In the road there will be fierce attacks, thunders and torments. A mesmerizing and fluid camerawork of Howard Hawks will find to Wayne in one of his most memorable performances.
A true classic and a personal and beloved cult movie!
Movie Review: Simply the best western I've ever seen.
Summary: 5 Stars
It is no mean coincidence that I picked tdunson as my e-mail id. Tom Dunson was perhaps even more than Ethan Edwards the quintessential John Wayne part. It displayed facets that we came to know all too in the following years. A strong vital man with admirable qualities and flaws that we accepted because the good in this character always outweighed any bad. He had a goal and a vision and would not brook any diversion from his goal. He told his men up front what he expected of them, he told them he would hold nothing against them if they didn't go along with his terms. He also told them not to try to quit if they did. He learns by the end of the film that he had to bend in his philosophy but you never lost your respect for the character in the process. Howard Hawks delivered a passionate epic that stands as high in my estimation as Shane,My Darling Clementine, and Winchester'73 . These and others were the blueprint for the concept of the literate adult western. They don't get any better than this.Movie Review: Any Who Says John Wayne Couldn't Act Is An Idiot
Summary: 5 Stars
An epic masterpiece filled with some of the greatest character actors of all time..Like Charlton Heston, John Wayne was cheated out of many honors because of his poltics...
Any who sees The Quiet Man, True Grit,Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Long Voyage Home, The Shootest and naturally The Searchers must recognize that the Duke was much more than a movie star but a fantastic actor who could create unique characters..(granted, there was no way he could have portrayed a weakling anymore than Tracy or Gable could..it just wasn't in their natures..)
Like Maureen O'Hara, Joanne Dru was a strong enough actress to go line for line with the Duke....and of course the ole scene stealer Walter Brennan stands out AGAIN!..
The film is like a beautiful symphony with each character adding a beautiful note....filled with memorable minor characters, one cannot take their eyes off the screen...A gift for the ages...
Movie Review: An American Odyssey
Summary: 5 Stars
Howard Hawks directed this, his first western, and it's one of the best of that genre ever made. John Wayne plays the bullheaded Tom Dunson, cattle rancher of south Texas who wants to drive a herd of cattle to the railheads of Missouri. Montgomery Clift is his "step-son" Matt (actually an orphan that Dunson rescued from an Indian massacre many years before), who believes with the other ranch hands that Abilene is the place to drive the cattle. Old ideas versus the new - and they have a falling out; Clift takes the herd and Wayne pledges to kill him. These two actors are perfect foils for each other, but the real story as it unfolds through Hawks's direction, stunning photography, and even the musical score by Dimitri Tiomkin, is the land and the cattle - thousands of them. It's Odysseus on the American Plains, with all the drama that ancient tale had here unfolding among sand and cattle. A true movie masterpiece.