When Peter Bogdanovich needed a movie to play as the final feature in the doomed small-town theater in "The Last Picture Show," he chose Howard Hawks' "Red River" (1948).He selected the scene where John Wayne tells Montgomery Clift, "Take 'em to Missouri, Matt!"And then there is Hawks' famous montage of weathered cowboy faces in closeup and exaltation, as they cry "Hee-yaw ...
Red River (1948)
Red River: Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson. With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan. Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Red River
Feb 4, 2023 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies "Red River" stakes its claim as a true classic of the Western genre. Rated: 4/5 Aug 24, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews Audience ...
Red River (1948 film)
Red River trailer. Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail.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 ...
Red River (1948)
Red River (1948) is a film that gets better with age. This was the first of five Howard Hawks/John Wayne features. Red River (1948) was Howard Hawks third straight gem right after To Have & Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946). John Wayne had come a long way from his low budget Lone Star film days.
Red River
Red River, as a comment on frontier courage, loyalty, and leadership, is a romantic, simple-minded mush, but an ingeniously lyrical film nonetheless. Full Review | Jun 14, 2019
Red River
1948. Approved. United Artists. 2 h 13 m. Summary Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son. Drama. Western. Directed By: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson.
Classic Review: Red River (1948)
Red River is a true masterpiece by a visionary director. Everything works in making this a true masterpiece. It was then and it still is, 70 years later. Movies. ... Classic Movie Review. Classic Review: Red River (1948) leandromatos1981 June 20, 2019 100 /100 n/a 11 min. Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Red River: The Longest Drive
M any westerns have been self-consciously conceived on an epic scale, but Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), in its deepest channels, actually feels like an ancient epic. It is measured in long breaths and offers up scenes eroded to their fundamentals. Yet for all the hundreds of cattle that fill the screen, this saga of the first great cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, dramatized through ...
Red River (1948)
Audio excerpts from an interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase. Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River from 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan. Trailer. PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks's frequent editor Christian Nyby. Cover by Eric Skillman.
Red River (1948) directed by Howard Hawks • Reviews, film + cast
Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★. Hawks made perhaps the greatest Western of all time a decade later, but damned if this doesn't make an equally strong argument for placement at least among the genre's pantheon. Old West and new order pitted as classic stardom vs. young method acting.
Red River (1948)
Film Movie Reviews Red River — 1948. Red River. 1948. 2h 13m. Approved. Drama/Western. Where to Watch. Buy. $14.99. ... In 1946, when he was cast opposite John Wayne in Red River ...
Red River (1948)
Red River (1948) Red River (1948) is a classic and complex western (and considered by many critics to be one of the ten best westerns ever made). 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 and rebellion, spanning a time period of fifteen years. Red ...
Red River (1948)
Rated. Unrated. Runtime. 133 min. Release Date. 09/17/1948. Westerns often take well-known episodes of American history and build them up into iconographic films, but few are more tightly rooted in history and the experience of the West than Howard Hawks' Red River. A tale of the original cowboys and their first monumental cattle drive along ...
Red River
RED RIVER, which would gross almost $5 million in its initial release, was seen by the public and critics alike as a classic, and it remains so today. Today's Netflix Top 10 Rankings If You Like ...
Red River Review
Red River Review. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) has a cattle empire and some tyrannical ways. His adopted son turns against him, and steals the herd, leaving Dunson swearing bloody revenge. by Kim ...
Red River (1948) Movie Review
Our Rating. Monterey Productions released Red River on September 17, 1948. Howard Hawks directed the film starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, and Joanne Dru. User Rating: 3.05 ( votes) Sunday Seconds with the Duke reviews Red River (1948) with John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, and Joanne Dru.
Red River (1948)
A radio version of Red River was aired in the late 40s with three of the original stars (John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru) and Jeff Chandler as Matt. The story was redone for television in 1988 with James Arness as Dunson, Bruce Boxleitner as Matt, Ray Walston as Groot and Gregory Harrison as Cherry.
Red River (1948) Film Review A-
It's one of the incredible gay moments on film. Also, with Walter Brennan, Noah Beery Jr., Joanne Dru, and Coleen Gray - Both Dru and Gray are superb, and "Red River" impresses as one of the few Westerns with not just one but two very memorable female characters. The stunning cinematography (black and white) is by Hawks' favorite ...
Classic Film Review: An Iconic Western turns 75, "Red River"
Some day, at some point, Matt's going to have to "be a man" and step in. A movie like "Red River" did wonders for John Wayne's acting reputation. He's mean, playing a rare (soft-edged) heavy, and holds his own. But Brennan effortlessly upstages him, young Kuhn crackles in his two scenes, "soft" and sensitive Clift puts in the ...
Red River Review :: Criterion Forum
Picture 8/10. Howard Hawks' Red River receives a lavish looking 4-disc dual-format special edition from Criterion, who present both Hawk's preferred 127-minute theatrical version and the 133-minute pre-release cut, which has been the more common version to be found on home video. On Blu-ray Criterion presents each version of the film on their own respective dual-layer Blu-ray discs with ...
Red River Review 1948
John Wayne stars in one of his most acclaimed films, Red River, opposite a young Montgomery Clift. Wayne is the tormenting rancher, driving his 9,000 head of cattle to Missouri to avoid bankruptcy ...
Red River
Movie Review Red River Greatest Spectacle Ever! US Release Date: 09-17-1948. Directed by: Howard Hawks. Starring ... He was as adept at screwball comedies as he was action movies. Red River suffers from some obvious shots of the stars on fake horses in front of rear projection in some of the action scenes and the cattle drive looks suspiciously ...
'Red Swan' Hulu Review: Stream It Or Skip It?
Korean dramas often have romance or thrills, but not both. In a new K-drama on Hulu (Disney+ outside the U.S.), a married woman falls for her bodyguard and vice versa, but you know that things are ...
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When Peter Bogdanovich needed a movie to play as the final feature in the doomed small-town theater in "The Last Picture Show," he chose Howard Hawks' "Red River" (1948).He selected the scene where John Wayne tells Montgomery Clift, "Take 'em to Missouri, Matt!"And then there is Hawks' famous montage of weathered cowboy faces in closeup and exaltation, as they cry "Hee-yaw ...
Red River: Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson. With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan. Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Feb 4, 2023 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies "Red River" stakes its claim as a true classic of the Western genre. Rated: 4/5 Aug 24, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews Audience ...
Red River trailer. Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail.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 ...
Red River (1948) is a film that gets better with age. This was the first of five Howard Hawks/John Wayne features. Red River (1948) was Howard Hawks third straight gem right after To Have & Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946). John Wayne had come a long way from his low budget Lone Star film days.
Red River, as a comment on frontier courage, loyalty, and leadership, is a romantic, simple-minded mush, but an ingeniously lyrical film nonetheless. Full Review | Jun 14, 2019
1948. Approved. United Artists. 2 h 13 m. Summary Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son. Drama. Western. Directed By: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson.
Red River is a true masterpiece by a visionary director. Everything works in making this a true masterpiece. It was then and it still is, 70 years later. Movies. ... Classic Movie Review. Classic Review: Red River (1948) leandromatos1981 June 20, 2019 100 /100 n/a 11 min. Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
M any westerns have been self-consciously conceived on an epic scale, but Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), in its deepest channels, actually feels like an ancient epic. It is measured in long breaths and offers up scenes eroded to their fundamentals. Yet for all the hundreds of cattle that fill the screen, this saga of the first great cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, dramatized through ...
Audio excerpts from an interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase. Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River from 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan. Trailer. PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks's frequent editor Christian Nyby. Cover by Eric Skillman.
Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★. Hawks made perhaps the greatest Western of all time a decade later, but damned if this doesn't make an equally strong argument for placement at least among the genre's pantheon. Old West and new order pitted as classic stardom vs. young method acting.
Film Movie Reviews Red River — 1948. Red River. 1948. 2h 13m. Approved. Drama/Western. Where to Watch. Buy. $14.99. ... In 1946, when he was cast opposite John Wayne in Red River ...
Red River (1948) Red River (1948) is a classic and complex western (and considered by many critics to be one of the ten best westerns ever made). 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 and rebellion, spanning a time period of fifteen years. Red ...
Rated. Unrated. Runtime. 133 min. Release Date. 09/17/1948. Westerns often take well-known episodes of American history and build them up into iconographic films, but few are more tightly rooted in history and the experience of the West than Howard Hawks' Red River. A tale of the original cowboys and their first monumental cattle drive along ...
RED RIVER, which would gross almost $5 million in its initial release, was seen by the public and critics alike as a classic, and it remains so today. Today's Netflix Top 10 Rankings If You Like ...
Red River Review. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) has a cattle empire and some tyrannical ways. His adopted son turns against him, and steals the herd, leaving Dunson swearing bloody revenge. by Kim ...
Our Rating. Monterey Productions released Red River on September 17, 1948. Howard Hawks directed the film starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, and Joanne Dru. User Rating: 3.05 ( votes) Sunday Seconds with the Duke reviews Red River (1948) with John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, and Joanne Dru.
A radio version of Red River was aired in the late 40s with three of the original stars (John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru) and Jeff Chandler as Matt. The story was redone for television in 1988 with James Arness as Dunson, Bruce Boxleitner as Matt, Ray Walston as Groot and Gregory Harrison as Cherry.
It's one of the incredible gay moments on film. Also, with Walter Brennan, Noah Beery Jr., Joanne Dru, and Coleen Gray - Both Dru and Gray are superb, and "Red River" impresses as one of the few Westerns with not just one but two very memorable female characters. The stunning cinematography (black and white) is by Hawks' favorite ...
Some day, at some point, Matt's going to have to "be a man" and step in. A movie like "Red River" did wonders for John Wayne's acting reputation. He's mean, playing a rare (soft-edged) heavy, and holds his own. But Brennan effortlessly upstages him, young Kuhn crackles in his two scenes, "soft" and sensitive Clift puts in the ...
Picture 8/10. Howard Hawks' Red River receives a lavish looking 4-disc dual-format special edition from Criterion, who present both Hawk's preferred 127-minute theatrical version and the 133-minute pre-release cut, which has been the more common version to be found on home video. On Blu-ray Criterion presents each version of the film on their own respective dual-layer Blu-ray discs with ...
John Wayne stars in one of his most acclaimed films, Red River, opposite a young Montgomery Clift. Wayne is the tormenting rancher, driving his 9,000 head of cattle to Missouri to avoid bankruptcy ...
Movie Review Red River Greatest Spectacle Ever! US Release Date: 09-17-1948. Directed by: Howard Hawks. Starring ... He was as adept at screwball comedies as he was action movies. Red River suffers from some obvious shots of the stars on fake horses in front of rear projection in some of the action scenes and the cattle drive looks suspiciously ...
Korean dramas often have romance or thrills, but not both. In a new K-drama on Hulu (Disney+ outside the U.S.), a married woman falls for her bodyguard and vice versa, but you know that things are ...