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No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks 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 found one of his greatest roles, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son—played by Montgomery Clift, in a breakout performance—reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri. The film is based on a novel that dramatizes the real-life late nineteenth-century expeditions along the Chisholm Trail, but 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.
Original Release
12/22/1938
US Release
12/22/1938
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Cast
Name | Character |
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John Wayne | Stony Brooke |
Ray Corrigan | Tucson Smith |
Max Terhune | Lullaby Joslin |
Lorna Gray | Jane Mason |
Kirby Grant | Tex Reilly |
Polly Moran | Mrs. Maxwell |
Sammy McKim | Tommy Jones |
William Royle | Payne |
Perry Ivins | Hartley |
Stanley Blystone | Randall |
Directors
Writers
Stanley Roberts, Betty Burbridge, Luci Ward
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Wayne | Stony Brooke |
Ray Corrigan | Tucson Smith |
Max Terhune | Lullaby Joslin |
Lorna Gray | Jane Mason |
Kirby Grant | Tex Reilly |
Polly Moran | Mrs. Maxwell |
Sammy McKim | Tommy Jones |
William Royle | Payne |
Perry Ivins | Hartley |
Stanley Blystone | Randall |
Lenore Bushman | Evelyn Maxwell |
Burr Caruth | Pop Mason |
Roger Williams | Sheriff Wood |
Earl Askam | Henchman Morton / Morton - Henchman |
Olin Francis | Henchman Kenton / Kenton - Henchman |
Chuck Baldra | Dude Ranch Cowhand |
John Beach | Rustler |
Ed Cassidy | Marshal |
Bert Dillard | Cattleman |
Curley Dresden | Rustler |
Producers
Name | Role |
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William Berke | Producer |