Red River details
| Format: | U DVD |
|---|---|
| Starring: | John Irel, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Carey Jr., Coleen Gray, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Noah Beery, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Walter Brennan |
| Director: | Howard Hawks |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure - Epic, Westerns |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collections: | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Red River |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 13 minutes |
|---|---|
| Rental release: | 12 Jun 2000 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | English |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
Write your own review
Most helpful review
Hyped as one of the best Westerns---it's not : but Duke "brings it thru" like a cattle drive:)
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 22 Oct 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
John Wayne, Walter Brennan , a host of splendid supporting stalwarts, and the direction of one of the greats in cinema....and the least you can expect is a 3.5 * film ( and that's what I've given it------wish it could have been more, but it's lacking something : perhaps the presence of Montgomery Clift, perhaps the storyline, I don't know.
Compared to Wayne's greatest films, especially 'Liberty Valance', 'Stagecoach', The John Ford cavalry trilogy, 'The Quiet Man', 'Sons Of Katie Elder' et al.........this movie lacks that thing I can't put my finger on : perhaps it's just that lovely Maureen O'Hara wasn't around :)
A must for all Western addicts and especially JW fans; and a good film for anyone who wants to watch any sort of above average film.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (26) Yes |
- No (19)
All reviews
(22)Classic Western
By GaryI (785 reviews) from March, Cambs , 04 Dec 2012This is a true classic movie, and probably the best cattle drive western ever made. And you thought John Wayne couldn't act well think again. here he gives a truly great performance as the tyrannical Tom Dunson. You also have to remember that there were no special effects when this was made so what's on the screen is for real. A wonderful film.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (1) Yes |
- No (0)
Hyped as one of the best Westerns---it's not : but Duke "brings it thru" like a cattle drive:)
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 22 Oct 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
John Wayne, Walter Brennan , a host of splendid supporting stalwarts, and the direction of one of the greats in cinema....and the least you can expect is a 3.5 * film ( and that's what I've given it------wish it could have been more, but it's lacking something : perhaps the presence of Montgomery Clift, perhaps the storyline, I don't know.
Compared to Wayne's greatest films, especially 'Liberty Valance', 'Stagecoach', The John Ford cavalry trilogy, 'The Quiet Man', 'Sons Of Katie Elder' et al.........this movie lacks that thing I can't put my finger on : perhaps it's just that lovely Maureen O'Hara wasn't around :)
A must for all Western addicts and especially JW fans; and a good film for anyone who wants to watch any sort of above average film.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (26) Yes |
- No (19)
Red River
By Siegmund (2 reviews) from pe289bs , 26 Mar 2011Great movie showing a believable slice of what cattle driving may have been like.
Wayne's character is that of a flawed obsessive tyrant.
But the film gives the impression that it was those characteristics that gave the strength needed to succeed with ventures like driving cattle across a big chunk of America.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (0) Yes |
- No (1)
Classic picture
By Picturehead (2 reviews) from Stratford-upon-Avon , 14 Nov 2010This was Hollywood at it's most breathtaking. A story of a thousand mile cattle drive between Texas and Missouri. Mano a mano, high stakes and a big prize at the end. The plot is simple,the execution is masterful.
John Wayne plays against type and lets the sympathy go to Montgomery Clift (in his first film) but still holds the screen.
Production values are high and must have cost a packet with all the location shooting. The cinematography is stunning with clouds racing across mountains, ( when do you ever see this in a modern movie), and setpieces of the cattle fording the red river and chuckwagons lying virtually on their ends as thy mount the hills and riverbanks. The music is magnificently evocative and one sees the many references by other modern films to it's themes. Some of the music by Dimitri Tiompkin is later used in another film of Hawk's 'Rio Bravo'. 'City Slickers' refers to the 'Yee-haw' scene when they move the ten thousand herd of cattle on the first leg of the journey. Stirring stuff.
I first saw this as a boy of ten and it has stayed with me. Hopefully no idjit will attempt a remake. Though they could do no better in trying to emulate the magic.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (2) Yes |
- No (0)
Riding roughshod
By MichaelKenward (28 reviews) from Staplefield, Sussex , 26 Apr 2010This really does not make it. All cows and boys. The girls barely rate as bit parts.
Right-wing cow poke, Wayne, puts up two fingers to 'Indians', Mexicans and anyone who gets in the way. Gets more and more grouchy until the inevitable denouement.
Hawks has done better than this. So has Wayne. Heaven only knows why they rate it as a 'masterpiece' or 'one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed'.
I was worried about the genetics of the herd. One cow and a bull with 1,000 offspring? The vet would have something to say about that.
A few reasonable support actors, including Clift, but Red River shows why Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood breathed fresh air into the Western.
If you want to watch cowboys, go down that road. Or hire the small gem, The Hired Hand.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (2) Yes |
- No (3)
