Red River (1948 film)
- John Wayne: Thomas 'Tom' Dunson
- Montgomery Clift: Matthew ' Matt' Garth
- Joanne Dru: Tess Millay
- Walter Brennan: ' Groot ' Nadine
- Coleen Gray: Fen
- Harry Carey sen. Mr. Melville
- John Ireland: Cherry Valance
- Noah Beery Buster McGee
- Harry Carey Jr.: . Dan Latimer
- Chief Yowlachie: Quo
- Paul Fix: Teeler Yacey
- Hank Worden: Simms Reeves
- Mickey Kuhn: Matt
- Ray Hyke: Walt Jergens
- Wally Wales: Old Leather
Red River (former German title: panic at the Red River, the original English title: Red River) is an American Western directed by Howard Hawks from the 1948 United Artists was the theatrical. . Screenwriter Borden Chase, from which also comes the original Story, processed the material later to a Western novel. The eponymous river is also called the Red River of the South.
Action
The rancher Thomas Dunson and his foster son Matthew " Matt" Garth want to bring a herd of over 9,000 cattle loss from Texas about the famous Red River to Missouri. This becomes a huge ordeal for humans and animals. Dunson calls his people from everything. He even thinks he can determine life and death of his cowboys. After crossing the river, he wants to hang on two rebellious cowboys. Courageously opposing to it his foster son. There will be arguments that go so far that Dunson quarreled with Matt and has to stay on the prairie without his faithful assistants Groot. Matt brings the cattle over the Chisholm Trail to Abilene (Kansas) to the railway line of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Dunson has since vowed revenge and pursues Matt. In Abilene, there is a showdown between father and son. Through the intervention of Tess that Matt had temporarily saved from Indians, it is possible to reconcile the two, however.
Reviews
" Howard Hawks brilliantly orchestrated work - by the way Hawks ' first collaboration with John Wayne - combines epic and psychological elements into a thrilling adventure story about the trek. Rarely reached a classic Western as perfect harmony between the dramaturgy, the camera work, the music and the cast. For those times, a budget of over three million dollar was relatively high. Almost half of the budget is spent for whole areas, and 5,000 cattle. "
" The tightly told story is always the opportunity to brilliantly staged, image rich sequences (...), where the pioneer spirit of the West is felt. Excellent representations of all roles, but especially that of the adoptive son by Montgomery Clift in his first film, round the immaculate impression of the film from (...). "
" ' Panic at Red River ' was realized with a tremendous effort. [ ... ] Many of the scenes, numerous images of this great film have long since become memorable moments from the history of Western [ ... In many ] spectacular scenes, the viewer gets a revealing picture of what the work of cowboys really meant, a work that was as exhausting as perilous as hard as privation ... "
" An exciting places and good cutting move designed Western on a trek of 10,000 cattle from Texas to Missouri. In its genre a work of almost legendary reputation, which, however, should not obscure the usual typing and too uncritical recognition of a characterized by violence leading role. "
Importance
" Red River describes the transition to the division of labor, mode of production ( breeding, shipping, sales) in the livestock industry. At the political level which is the transition from the feudal Dunsons ( Wayne ) to bourgeois rule Matts ( Clift ), at the psychological level of parricide by the son. The film ends somewhat unmotivated, but historically appropriate, with the appearance of the woman at the beginning of their emancipation. "
Awards
In 1949, the film each received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay.
The director Howard Hawks was nominated for the Film Award of the Directors Guild of America, Borden Chase and Charles Schnee were nominated for the screenplay for the price of the Writers Guild of America.
Remarkable
In this film, two peculiarities wrote film history:
The Stampede ( the stampede of cattle ), especially buried by the images of the soil, covered with bulletproof glass cameras.
For the first time in a Hollywood production was stylistically aware used a dynamic hand-held camera ( fight scene at the cattle trough ).