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No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday) played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. In it, John Wayne (Stagecoach) found one of his greatest roles as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son, played by Montgomery Clift (From Here to Eternity) in a breakout performance, reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri, which is based on a real-life late nineteenth-century expedition. Yet Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masc
No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday) played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. In it, John Wayne (Stagecoach) found one of his greatest roles as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son, played by Montgomery Clift (From Here to Eternity) in a breakout performance, reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri, which is based on a real-life late nineteenth-century expedition. Yet Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masculinity that propel the myths of the American West. The unerringly macho Wayne and the neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks's formidable direction.
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Manufacturer: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Release date: 27 May 2014
EAN: 0715515117012 UPC: 715515117012
Tags: Ray Hyke (1), Harry Carey (1), Lane Chandler (1), Glenn Strange (1), Lee Phelps (1), Hank Worden (1), Dan White (1), William Self (1), Mickey Kuhn (1), Hal Taliaferro (1), Richard Farnsworth (1), Harry Cording (1), Tom Tyler (1), Coleen Gray (1), Chief Yowlachie (1), Davison Clark (1), Paul Fierro (1), George Lloyd (1), Pierce Lyden (1), Ivan Parry (1)
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