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Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail .
It is the second film in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", along with Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget of $1.6 million, the film was one of the most expensive Westerns made up to that time. It was a major hit for RKO. The film is named after "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", a song popular with the U.S. military.
English: Trailer for the film Red River (1948), directed by Howard Hawks. December 26th is the anniversary of Hawks' death. In 1990, Red River was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
From the film industry, he received three nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures from the Directors Guild of America for Red River in 1949, The Big Sky in 1953, and Rio Bravo in 1960. [97] [98] [99] He was inducted into the Online Film and Television Association's Hall of Fame for his directing in 2005. [100]
The similarity to famed cowtown Abilene, Kansas, in Howard Hawks' Red River (1948) was intentional. [8] Red River again is tied in as "the last picture show", which Sonny and Duane watch at the end of the film. [9] After shooting wrapped, Bogdanovich went back to Los Angeles to edit the film footage on a Moviola.
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...
Red River Range is a 1938 "Three Mesquiteers" Western film [1] starring John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, and Polly Moran. Wayne played the lead in eight of the fifty-one movies in the popular series.
The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Singin' in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen; Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland; Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn LeRoy; Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen; Two for the Road (1967) dir ...