Red River
Summary:
John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces him to abandon Fen (Colleen Gray), his fiancee -- and when she is killed in an Indian raid... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Wayne - (Tom Dunson)
Montgomery Clift - (Matthew Garth)
Joanne Dru - (Tess Millay)
Walter Brennan - (Nadine Groot)
Coleen Gray - (Fen)
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Review:
In his first collaboration with John Wayne, Howard Hawks examines capitalism and dueling masculinities in the rousing context of a Western cattle drive. A Mutiny on the Bounty for Big Sky country, Red River features a challenge between Montgomery Clift's Matthew Garth and Wayne's Tom Dunson that becomes a contest between new and old ... Continue >>
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