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Red River
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Director Howard Hawks' second western was also his first collaboration with John Wayne. Officially based on Borden Chase's novel The Chisholm Trail, the film also owes a great deal to Mutiny on the Bounty, both structurally and in the adversarial relationship between the two leading characters. Wayne stars as headstrong frontiersman Tom Dunson, who is taking his leave of a westbound wagon train to seek his fortune in Texas. This impulsive act loses him the love of his fiancée Fen (Colleen Gray) but gains him a lifelong friend in the person of (occasionally) toothless old camp cook Groot Nadine (Walter Brennan). Not long afterward, Dunson discovers that Fen was killed in an Indian raid, a fact that leaves him an emotionless cipher. The only survivor of the tragedy is a young orphan named Matthew Garth (Mickey Kuhn), whom Dunson unofficially adopts as his son. As the years pass, the tactiturn Dunson becomes the most powerful and feared cattle baron in the territory, but the grown-up Garth (now played by Montgomery Clift, in his first film appearance) eventually rebels against Dunson's stubbornness and autocratic behavior, striking out on his own as his surrogate father growls: 'Some day you'll turn around and I'll be there; I'm gonna kill ya, Matt.' As time passes, Garth, leading his own cattle drive, becomes Dunson's most formidable rival. The huge cast includes John Ireland in perhaps his best role as the enigmatic gunman Cherry Valance; both Harry Carey, Sr. and Harry Carey, Jr.; and an uncredited Shelley Winters as a dance hall girl. Except for the sappy scenes with love interest Joanne Dru, everything works in Red River, from the stirring Dmitri Tiomkin score to Russell Harlan's brooding black-and-white cinematography. In his quest for perfection, Hawks went $1 million overbudget and several months over schedule, but the end result was a $4 million hit. Essential viewing for western buffs in particular and film buffs in general, Red River currently exists in two release versions: the preferable 133-minute directors' cut, and a 125-minute studio cut, narrated by Walter Brennan.
Director Howard Hawks' second western was also his first collaboration with John Wayne. Officially based on Borden Chase's novel The Chisholm Trail, the film also owes a great deal to Mutiny on the Bounty, both structurally and in the adversarial relationship between the two leading characters. Wayne stars as headstrong frontiersman Tom Dunson, who is taking his leave of a westbound wagon train to seek his fortune in Texas. This impulsive act loses him the love of his fiancée Fen (Colleen Gray) but gains him a lifelong friend in the person of (occasionally) toothless old camp cook Groot Nadine (Walter Brennan). Not long afterward, Dunson discovers that Fen was killed in an Indian raid, a fact that leaves him an emotionless cipher. The only survivor of the tragedy is a young orphan named Matthew Garth (Mickey Kuhn), whom Dunson unofficially adopts as his son. As the years pass, the tactiturn Dunson becomes the most powerful and feared cattle baron in the territory, but the grown-up Garth (now played by Montgomery Clift, in his first film appearance) eventually rebels against Dunson's stubbornness and autocratic behavior, striking out on his own as his surrogate father growls: 'Some day you'll turn around and I'll be there; I'm gonna kill ya, Matt.' As time passes, Garth, leading his own cattle drive, becomes Dunson's most formidable rival. The huge cast includes John Ireland in perhaps his best role as the enigmatic gunman Cherry Valance; both Harry Carey, Sr. and Harry Carey, Jr.; and an uncredited Shelley Winters as a dance hall girl. Except for the sappy scenes with love interest Joanne Dru, everything works in Red River, from the stirring Dmitri Tiomkin score to Russell Harlan's brooding black-and-white cinematography. In his quest for perfection, Hawks went $1 million overbudget and several months over schedule, but the end result was a $4 million hit. Essential viewing for western buffs in particular and film buffs in general, Red River currently exists in two release versions: the preferable 133-minute directors' cut, and a 125-minute studio cut, narrated by Walter Brennan.
Actors:
Hank Worden,
Paul Fierro,
Carol Henry,
John Merton,
George Lloyd,
Harry Cording,
Hal Taliaferro,
Lane Chandler,
Glenn Strange,
Snub Pollard,
Ralph Bucko
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Hank Worden
23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA
Paul Fierro
19 January 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
Carol Henry
14 July 1918, Walters, Oklahoma, USA
John Merton
18 February 1901, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
George Lloyd
5 November 1892, Edinburgh (Christian County), Illinois, USA
Harry Cording
26 April 1891, Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Hal Taliaferro
November 13, 1895 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA
Lane Chandler
4 June 1899, South Dakota, USA
Glenn Strange
16 August 1899, Weed, New Mexico, USA
Snub Pollard
9 November 1889, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ralph Bucko
16 November 1891, Colusa, California, USA
Director:
Howard Hawks ,
Arthur Rosson
Howard Hawks
30 May 1896, Goshen, Indiana, USA
Arthur Rosson
August 24, 1886 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Arthur Rosson #Howard Hawks #Joanne Dru #John Wayne #La rivière rouge (1948) #Montgomery Clift #Red River #Red River (1948) #Walter Brennan
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