Nov 24th
Red River**
(US 1947)
United Artists/Monterey. 133m. bw
Texas cattle runners squabble with each other in their struggle to get their massive load transported to Missouri.
It all looks a little cliched now, with the conventions of the Western having been turned on their head by subsequent decades, the familiarity of the later TV series Rawhide, and spoofs like Blazing Saddles, but this rollicking, rambling horse opera still has the edge above most others of its kind, with some fine measured moments of photography, editing and direction. Proof also that the history of the Wild West wasn't exclusively the domain of John Ford.
Written by: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee.
Producer: Howard Hawks.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson.
Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jnr, Harry Carey Jnr, Hank Worden, Harry Carey, Coleen Gray.
Photography: Russel Harlan.
Music: Dmitri Tiomkin.
Red River**
(US 1947)
United Artists/Monterey. 133m. bw
Texas cattle runners squabble with each other in their struggle to get their massive load transported to Missouri.
It all looks a little cliched now, with the conventions of the Western having been turned on their head by subsequent decades, the familiarity of the later TV series Rawhide, and spoofs like Blazing Saddles, but this rollicking, rambling horse opera still has the edge above most others of its kind, with some fine measured moments of photography, editing and direction. Proof also that the history of the Wild West wasn't exclusively the domain of John Ford.
Written by: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee.
Producer: Howard Hawks.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson.
Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jnr, Harry Carey Jnr, Hank Worden, Harry Carey, Coleen Gray.
Photography: Russel Harlan.
Music: Dmitri Tiomkin.
Labels: Western
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