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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.
[86] [87] [88] In 1948, when Clift left Robbins to pursue a movie career in Hollywood, the announcement devastated Robbins. [89] [90] He told Clift "I could make you love me," at the end of their two-year affair. [91] Robbins is said to have conceived the basic plot of West Side Story after Clift shared the idea with him, according to actor ...
In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic Western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film. Later that year, Hawks remade his Ball of Fire as A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
A Song Is Born was the number one film in the country from the time of its release until November 1948, while Hawks's other (and in his opinion, best) film, Red River, was second. [5] However, A Song Is Born never broke even, only earning about $2.2 million (equivalent to $27.9 million in 2023 [7]), while Red River went on to gross $4.1 million ...
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."
Wayne's other roles in Westerns included a cattleman driving his herd on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and a cantankerous ...
Red River, a television movie remake of the classic film from 1948, starring James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, and Gregory Harrison; Red River Valley (1997 film), a Chinese film about British intrusion of Tibet; Red River, a Chinese film named for the Yunnanese river; Red River, a 1995 Japanese graphic novel series named for the Turkish river ...