Red River

This movie is one of my top 5 best. I am a BIG fan of western movies. I think John Wayne deserved an award for this movie (and a few others) more than "True Grit".... Full review

Red River is a classic western. It is the movie were John Wayne transitioned from playing a young handsome lending man to playing the crusty middle age John Wayne character he played in most of the rest of his movies. It's... Full review

Dimitri Tiomkin's thunderous score sets the tone for this rousing story of cowboy ranchers in nineteenth century Texas headed north, with a thunderous herd of cattle in tow. It's the archetypal story of the American West, with its strong, ethical male... Full review

This movie gets better every time I see it. I love the interaction among Wayne, Clift, Brennan, and Dru, all the way to the last three minutes. In the magazine serial on which the movie is based, Matt Garth (Clift) kills... Full review

John Wayne and Montgomery Clift star in this story about a cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Abilene. They started out for Missouri, but Clift takes Wayne's cattle when Wayne goes without sleep and becomes suspicious of his men. Wayne... Full review

This is one of the greatest westerns ever made. John Wayne gives one of his finest performances. And even though the leading actress could be better and Montgomery Clift being able to hold his own against The Duke is slightly unrealistic... Full review

Some people think this is the greatest western ever made and they aren't far off the mark. It is certainly among the most expansive. Borden Chase adapted his own Saturday Evening Post story "The Chisholm Trail" but it was Howard Hawks... Full review

In the pantheon of great performances by John Wayne, Red River ranks as one of the great ones, probably in the top five of his films. It's what the publicity folks mean when they talk about epic westerns. John Wayne is... Full review

I understand the reason why a lot of people are disappointed over the ending of Red River. The movie, up until the ending, does a wonderful job of drawing us in to the story of the hard-nosed tyrannical cattle owner Thomas... Full review

I love westerns and this is one of my favorites. But it isn't just a shoot-'em-up flick. This movie is a story about relationships particularly ones between fathers and sons. This is also about the struggle of growing up in a... Full review

Hawks let his personal problems with Ireland hamstring his film.....director Howard Hawks , directing his first western, alternately perfected genre conventions....Dru isn't as good as Gray was.....Instead, the film gives us awkward dialogue scenes in which Cherry and Groot try to explain Matt to her (and I wish they'd have allowed us to hear those explanations, since Matt remains an enigma throughout).....We should value it instead for those scenes during which John Wayne was never better in his career, Mo ... Full Review

What we remember with ``Red River'' is not, however, the silly ending, but the setup and the majestic central portions. And ``Red River'' is one of the greatest of all Westerns when it stays with its central story about an older man and a younger one, and the first cattle drive down the Chisholm Trail. ... Full Review

Growing up, I thought of Wayne as Hollywood's heroic archetype, and actors such as Montgomery Clift (who costarred with him in Red River ), Marlon Brando and Paul Newman as the antihero reaction. It's in those Wayne films I don't much like that he's a one-dimensional figure whose stubborn stride betrays arrogant certainty. ... Full Review

Maybe both performances are great, but Red River is the better film. Clift (in his first and best role) is the orphan Wayne raises to be a cattleman and son-figure. You always realize how great his films are after you're through enjoying yourself. ... Full Review

Released in black and white 60 years ago, Howard Hawks' 1948 Western, Red River , starring John Wayne at his best, is a masterpiece.....if passive, young man played by Montgomery Clift in a first-rate motion picture debut.....Paired with his workmate, played by Walter Brennan in one of his best performances, Dunson is rational;....In fact, the most favorable characters are the ones who try hardest to make money-and the lone businessman.... ... Full Review

John Wayne proved he could really act in Howard Hawks's 'revisionist' Western Red River, says Sheila Johnston We keep hearing about "revisionist Westerns". McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) was hailed as pushing back the frontiers of the genre; so was... ... Full Article

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The fact that Howard Hawks' Red River ever got made is a feat so beyond the realms of logic that one has to wonder how Robert Ripley didn't publish the story. ... Full Article

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