A young man is placed in the position of having to kill his drunken, abusive father to protect his younger brother. Red river is a 1948 american western film directed and produced by howard hawks and starring john wayne and montgomery clift, giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from texas to kansas along the chisholm trail. The road to glory fig leaves the cradle snatchers bezahlte liebe blaue. It is a sweeping, epic story about a cattle drive historically based on the opening of the chisholm trail in 1867 and a film of rivalry. Red river was clifts first film though a protracted legal battle with billionaire producer howard hughes over the movies ending, which hughes claimed too closely resembled that of the outlaw, delayed the pictures release, enabling another clift film, the search, to open before red river and he made an indelible impression, coining. Vhs or dvd can anyone help me or put me in the right direction. Dunson talks to fourteen yearold matt garth, explaining how in just ten years he plans to build his two cows into a big cattle empire. Tom takes the rap and is sent off to a juvenile correction facility. Development of a tool for expediting highway construction while.
With christophe malavoy, claudia koll, eric schweig, lucrezia lante della rovere. International film and video festival part of the witnesses trilogy, a series of three films based on nearly 400 professionally filmed. Maar red river kent ook veel indrukwekkende delen, met duizenden runderen als. With tom everett scott, david moscow, cara buono, david lowery. To regroup, he travels to a remote island in the south of laos. After refusing to obey a senior surgeon, john lake, an american volunteer doctor in laos, is instructed to take a leave of absence. Red river was one of my favorite movies when i was 10, bogdanovich says. John ford made wayne famous as the ringo kid in stagecoach 1939. Red river 1948 is a classic and complex western and considered by many critics to be one of the ten best westerns ever made.
I know a lot of people hate the colorization of movies but i am actually a fan. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Western film geregisseerd door howard hawks en arthur rosson. Two men act out a fierce psychological rivalry for two hours, only to cave in instantly to a females glib tonguelashing. Red river is the first movie where john wayne plays a character whos not very likable.
Economic evaluation of mectizan distribution wiley online library. Red river 1988 after the civil war, rancher thomas dunson james arness leads a dangerous cattle drive across texas with a team that includes his adopted son, matthew bruce boxleitner, and. What we remember with red river is not, however, the silly ending, but the setup and the majestic central portions. In 1946, when he was cast opposite john wayne in red river the films release would be delayed until 1948, montgomery clift was 26 years old. In the tradition of motel hell and the hills have eyes. Dunson john wayne and matt montgomery clift visiting cowhand dan harry carey jr. Realizing that the younger brother will get off easier, he admits to the crime and goes to jail. Mcgowan, the film is about a ditch rider and his sidekick who set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site. From the director of 2009s moonshineandmarijuana fueled exploitationhorror homage, stash, comes a new tale of depravity, cannibalism and.
A study on intercity cooperation in the yangtze river delta region, china. Red river of the south, a tributary of the mississippi in texas, oklahoma, arkansas, and louisiana in the united states. River film is a film production company with offices in london, new york and adelaide. Red river was his first movie role, playing in a western opposite the biggest star of that genreand not just as a second. Inge meysel, eleonore weisgerber, johanna christine gehlen e. In the version i saw that once and only once you hear dunson finishing him off. But when his little brother tom confesses to the murder and goes to jail, dave turns to petty crime to pay the bills. Set in a small town in the backwoods of kentucky, red river tells the tale of roland thatcher. Red river is a 1948 film about a cattle man who feuds with his adopted son over ownership of their cattle in the middle of a drive on the chisholm trail.
In smalltown new england, dave fatally stabs his alcoholic father while protecting his younger brother tom. In converting a sprawling serialized story by borden chase into his own taut film, hawks chose a metaphoric title, red river, which has little specific meaning in the story crossing the red river signifies the departure from the familiar homeland and the journey into the unknown but which has obvious biblical parallels to the epic journey of. Michael hagopian winner of the best international historical documentary of the new york international film and video festival and second place history and biography of the u. Documentary, short 2004 austria add a plot director. Subscribe on apple podcasts, spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. New interview with filmmaker peter bogdanovich about red river and the two versions new interview with critic molly haskell about hawks and red river new interview. A wellmeaning volunteer doctor working in a rural laotian clinic is plunged, in one fateful moments decision, in extremis, in a film that gives the sense that as much as was planned in life. Red river valley, later retitled man of the frontier for american television screening, is a 1936 american western film directed by b. As was common in those days, clift spent years making a name for himself onstage, appearing on broadway from the age of 15. Red river introduces a slippery timelapse trick that was a big source of amusement in film school, where we students thought we were experts in the analysis of cinematic flashbacks and timeshift gimmicks.
Ringo was one of waynes many tough guy gets the girl roles. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive, between the texas rancher who initiated it wayne and his adopted adult son clift. Reeves eason and starring gene autry, smiley burnette, and frances grant. The final scene is the weakest in the film, and borden chase reportedly hated it, with good reason. In red river 1948, hawks casts wayne as ruthless cattle rancher thomas dunson. Meanwhile the older brother finds his family deep in debt and he is unable to pay enough from his job as a dishwasher and selling wood. Dave, a young man, kills his alcoholic father to end the cycle of violence in the house. Any short list of the alltime greatest westerns is bound to include this 1948 howard hawks classic about an epic cattle drive.
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