RED RIVER (1948) Movie REACTION!
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- For Film Friday 115 Madison watches Red River for the first time.
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Reaction: 1:36-30:50
Review: 30:51-37:48
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The Searchers is a must
Here, here!
After seeing this, Director John Ford supposedly said, "I didn't know the big lug could act". About the Duke
*Fun Fact:* "Red River" was the movie being featured at a theater slated to close forever in the film *The Last Picture Show (1971).* Great reaction.
Have you seen Stagecoach? It's the movie that made Wayne a superstar., after a long period of matinees and B-Movies. Made in 1939, Wayne would be the top box office star for the 40', 50's, and 60's, a 3 decade run.
As of 2016, the Duke was still #4 on the annual Harris poll of favorite actors.
IMO 'Red River' and 'Stagecoach' are Wayne's best black and white era films. (With the caveat that I don't think of 'The Longest Day' as a Wayne film.)
I don’t think she has, on CZcams anyway. Look forward to that one !
You need to watch She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. I think you will enjoy that John Wayne film
I second that
One the Duke’s best performances.
Walter Brennen was Groot. Montgomery Clift was Matt. The guy who died in the stampede was Harry Carey Jr. The guy who bought the cattle was Harry Carey Sr. Teeler, one of the guys he was going to hang was Paul Fix, a mentor of John Wayne and also the Sheriff in "The Rifleman". Joanne Dru was the Girl, John Ireland was Cherry Valence. At one time in real life Joanne Dru and John Ireland were married to each other.
And Noah Beery, Jr. was Buster McGee. Beery would later play James Garner's father on TV's The Rockford Files. Beery's uncle was famed actor Wallace Beery.
@@glennwisniewski9536 Thanks for putting The Rockford Files theme song in my head - once again.
Paul Fix is also Harry Carey Jr.'s Father in Law
@@light9999I was bugging out my brains one time on a long road trip. I could not for the life of me recall the Rockford Files theme song. For hundreds of miles across the Utah and Nevada desert I was going crazy and driving my traveling chums insane with all my pestering and agonizing....when suddenly out of a whirlwind on the outskirts of Reno...
.....badataaT DuMMM!!!!
Nee neeeeee Needle EE Dee...needle needle needle Dee....
By the time we left Reno everybody had a brainworm
Walter Brennan is the actor you are trying to remember. He's a great favorite of mine, winner of three Academy Awards for best supporting actor. He was also in a lot of non-westerns. For example, he played Gary Cooper's sidekick in the wonderful Christmas movie "Meet John Doe."
I like him on the screen also, but boy was he a pistol in real life.
DOE has received a new 4k restoration that is being released on Bluray.
Now, this is a classic. Gets little attention today, but one of the best western movies.
Watch "Sgt York". Not a western but directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan
Excellent movie to react to.
Yes. Perfect for her.
Walter Brennan (Groot) won Best Supporting Actor Oscars 3 times in 5 years from 1936-1940 which caused the Academy to disallow members of the Extras Union to vote for the awards since Brennan, being predominantly an extra before his big break, was very popular amongst members of the Extras Union. As it stands Brennan is one of, I think, 5 or 6 actors (men and women) to have won 3 Oscars in the acting categories. Katherine Hepburn stands alone with 4 acting Oscars.
He was the first.
The Searchers is probably Wayne's best performance of his career acting-wise.
Another note, Montgomery Clift's last movie was "The Misfits". It was also Clark Gable's and Marilyn Monroe's last movie.
And it has an excellent small part by Thelma Ritter. It is a modern "western," Madison.
Damn, “Misfits” is a brilliant, tough movie. Clark Gable gets as raw and vulnerable as I’ve seen him. Everyone’s at their best in the movie but Gable always surprises me every time I see it.
I think Judgment at Nuremberg and Freud came after The Misfits, and both include Clift. I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch Misfits, in spite of the crackerjack cast. Don’t know why.
Madison, The buyer of the cattle was Harry Carey Sr. The cowboy who died in the stampede, he of the red shoes, was his son Harry Carey Jr.
Harry Carey Sr. was in some of the earliest silent westerns, filmed in New Jersey.
@@user-sy5vv4ze3h He also played the part of the Marshal in "The Angel and the Bad Man" with John Wayne.
And the Vice President in Mr Smith Goes To Washington.
Harry Carey Jr also played Marshall Fred White in Tombstone who was gunned down by Curly Bill.
Harry Carey Sr. was recently seen by you in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He was presiding over the Senate during the filibuster. Harry Carey Sr. was a mentor to John Wayne when he was coming up in Hollywood.
Carey Sr. was one of the top silent era cowboys along with others like Tom Mix. His son Harry Jr. was a regular of John Ford’s acting company. He’s in a ton of Ford films. John Ford even gave Carey’s widow parts, notably in The Searchers.
Ford actually looked up to Carey Sr.
You can tell immediately that it is a Dimtri Tiomikin score the moment you hear it.
John Wayne's walk was taught to him by Harry Cary Sr. Everyone's normal walk is heel down first, heel to toe. Yet reversing it to toe down first creates the unique walking style, toe to heel stride. It's a subtle scene stealing technique.
Great reaction, Madison, it's a rollercoaster of a film. Matt was played by Montgomery Clift who was a great actor, I think that this was his only Western, he died in 1966, one of his best films is, "I Confess".
I have watched westerns for over 65 years, and this is my favorite. I am not a great John Wayne fan, but this is my favorite. Joel McCrea is one of the best. He would write his profession as Rancher and rode a horse like few others. One of his best is Oklahoma Territory. Randolph Scott is another of the greats. His best movies are directed by Budd Boetticher. Glenn Ford was taught to ride by Will Rogers. His movie the Violent Men is excellent with a great cast. Montgomery Clift was a great actor in one of his first movies. I would recommend. Northwest Passage which is only half the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Kenneth Roberts. It stars Spencer Tracy and takes place in the 1750's during the French and Indian War. It is exciting history and action.
We still need the best western comedy ever… “Support Your Local Sheriff” [James Garner, Jack Elam, Walter Brennan, Bruce Dern and Harry Morgan]
I'll 2nd, 3rd, and 4th that. But hey, I'm just passing through to Australia...BTW, you left out Joan Hackett, who was very essential to the story and funny as hell in this.
Followed closely by "Support Your Local Gunfighter" staring practically the same cast!
From mortal enemies to being best buddies is just part of being a fella.
Didn't happen that way in the novel, where Cherry killed Dunson. The movie's happy ending rings false.
@@teastrainer3604 A lot of the movie audience of the 40s may not have been ready for that ending. Probably what the producers thought.
@@angieday5183 Hawks said he liked the characters and didn't want to kill any of them. Watch The Ox Bow Incident, The Maltese Falcon, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and Bicycle Thieves, then get back to me about how delicate audiences were back then.
@@teastrainer3604 I'm sure you're right about Hawks. And yes, there were movies with sad endings. Percentage wise though, not as much as now, just an observation. I have seen all the above other than bicycle thieves. Ox Bow is still hard to watch.
You skipped over one of the most iconic John Wayne (or Western*) scenes ever: Wayne's striding through the packed herd of cattle without missing a step, knowing his charisma, gravitas and energy alone would move them out of the way like Moses parting the Red Sea! It worked -- both for the character and for the legendary actor, who just naturally intimidated all those restless cows with his presence. 💯👍
Noah Beery Jr. "Buster", has always been my fav. character actor, he is the spitting image facially, physically and personality-wise of my late uncle. In my 65 tears of living, he is my favorite person I've ever known. I miss his laughter, his big grin and his endless stories. Thank you for the heartfelt...happy...review.
Montgomery Clift played Matt.
He does a wonderful performance in From Here to Eternity. If you haven’t reacted to it, I recommend it.
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Great movie - Red River with all great actors. Tom Tyler (one of the quitters) is buried in Mt. Olivet - Detroit, Michigan and he had many heavy weight lifting records that held for 14 years. My dad worked across the street from the cemetery and a few co-workers attended his burial. Tom Tyler also played in Stagecoach with John Wayne. Thanks for sharing your video.
Tom Tyler was an amateur weightlifter sponsored by the Los Angeles Athletic Club during the late 1920s. He set a new world's amateur record for the right-hand clean and jerk by lifting 213 pounds (97 kg). In 1928, he won the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) heavyweight weightlifting championship, lifting 760 pounds (340 kg)-a record that stood for fourteen years
John Wayne and Harry Carey Sr. Are together in an excellent movie, The Shepherd of the Hills from 1941.
Shepherd of the Hills is a wonderful movie. It seems mostly forgotten and vastly underrated, in my opinion. It's been a while since I've watched it, now I feel like I need to watch it again. I highly recommend it!
Thanks for this. Lots of Wayne movies. I'll cast my vote for "Fort Apache" as your next.
War wagon is good
Firt Apache is great, with Henry Fonda as an unlikeable character. Shirley Temple at 20 years of age as his daughter and some of the most memorable character actors In one film.
Funny thing about Walter Brennan, he was born and raised in the Boston area but would up playing lots of cowboy roles.
Great Reaction.......
I have always Loved this Movie...... I especially love the "Aging" makeup they used on John Wayne for this Movie..... The Makeup artist earned their money making it look realistic.....
Another John Wayne Classic. Stage coach was always one of my favorites, from early John Wayne. 😊
You may recognize Noah Beery Jr. from the 1970s TV show the ‘Rockford Files’ with James Garner. He played his father.
Howard Hawks one of the best directors of the Golden Age.
John Wayne and Howard Hawks in Hatari(1960ish) filmed in Africa. Catching animals for zoos with Henry Mancini’s famous Elephant Walk score
Over the opening credits, the melody will be the duet "My Rifle, my Pony, and Me" in Rio Bravo.
Now we're talking. One of my faves. Great choice Madison. You should do The Searchers next, if you haven't already. Red R and Searchers are peak Wayne with great performances from him. Another fave is Wayne in Angel and the Badman, co-starring the ill-fated Gail Russell.
I' glad a lot of people requested this. In my crowd, it seems to be unknown. Another one I like (that a lot don't see) is Angel and the Badman!!
In the 1971 classic, The Last Picture Show, Red River is the last movie shown in the movie house.
10:38 this scene
Admirable choice of movies. Especially Red River. That is some serious old school chops.
In many of his movies after this, John Wayne wore a belt buckle with the "Red River D" brand on it. You can clearly see him wearing it in Rio Bravo.
Beat me to it. 😂 I came to the comments to tell her that same fact.
One of the best crafted and acted westerns ever. The Duke and Montgomery Clift as Tom and Matt carried this along with some of John Ford's stable of character actors. Howard Hawks, the director of this movie, was similar to Ford in his director's expertise. I love the different cowboys yeehawing at the start of the cattle drive north. Another film in which John Wayne plays a hardened not so likeable character is "The Searchers", directed by John Ford. Please keep these classics coming Madison!
A number of the best character actors in the business in this one
This and The Searchers are my favorite John Wayne westerns. He plays borderline villains in these movies which is unusual compared to good guy in white hat Westerns. He should have got an Oscar for both of these movies.
This is a masterpiece!!!
The cattlebuyer is Harry Carey. The cowboy who died in the stampede was Harry Carey Jr. Another famous "junior" in this move is Noah Beery Jr. Playing Buster.
Buster later became Jim Rockford's dad.
The closing scene in The Searchers is a tribute to Harry Carey, with John Wayne framed by the doorway in a pose associated with Carey. Carey wife plays the mother of Brad, played by HC Jr., whi is killed by the raiding Comanches.
The Ox-bow Incident is another great classic western I'd bet you'd enjoy. Hatari is great non-western John Wayne film with same director as Red River, great soundtrack by Henry Mancini, and all shot on location in sub Saharan Africa. You get to see John Wayne lasso African wild animals riding on the hood of a truck.
One of my old-man's favorites. My brothers and I watched together with him. We ate "Jiffy Pop" popcorn, as we watched (that was a LONG time ago). Always enjoyed Dimitri Tiomkin's score. Still have a DVD. Watch it, and remember the old-man. Favorite line in the movie - “There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. You ever had a Swiss watch?"
Harry Carey Jr was indeed in 3 Godfathers. His father, Harry Carey, was the cattle buyer in Abilene. He was John Wayne's idol. The Searchers in The Duke's tribute to Harry Sr.
I'm glad I hadn't seen this film in over 40 years and finally got to watch it again with you!
Matt was played by Montgomery Clift, who was a very big star from the late 1940s--early 1960s (this was one of his 1st movies,) and he had been a big Broadway star before that, and he starred in a lot of classic movies of those years, but "Red River" was the only true western he ever did. He did do a movie called "The Misfits" (in 1961) which also starred Clark Gable, and Marilyn Monroe (it was the last movie for both Gable and Monroe as both died shortly after making it) which was a modern "Western" about 20th-century cowboys
Thomas Dunson, "Get a shovel and my Bible. I'll read over him." John Wayne in a complicated role. Been years since I watched it. Groot! Ha! I wonder is this move inspired the name in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Groot already existed in Marvel Comics in the 1950s.
@@Madbandit77 Groot first appeared in Tales to Astonish #13, November 1960.
@@flatebo1 That's right. Thanks. 😎👍
Harry Carey, Jr played the "red shoes" guy here, one of the three godfathers, and the suitor to the murdered girl that Uncle Ethan finds and buries in the canyon in "The Searchers", who then makes a suicidal charge into Car's camp. He doesn't seem to survive to the end in very many Wayne pictures.
Another great movie!
I love the faces as they shout to start the drive!
Walter Brennan was Stumpy in Rio Bravo and the cook in this movie. The real destination of the early cattle drives was Sedalia, MO. Abilene, KS was way north of where they were. Indian attacks on wagon trains were actually rare.
Abilene, Kansas is roughly 250 miles west of Sedalia, Missouri.
I routinely quote several lines from this film. The one I say most often: “NOTHing YOU can SAY or DO . . .”
Montgomery Clift(Matt) was a huge star, didn't do westerns really, except this one. Walter Brennan was a sidekick in many, many movies of various genres, such as with Humphrey Bogart in 'To Have and Have Not'.
Finally......Ya should have done this a while back. This and "The Searcher" are basically 2 of Wayne's greatest performance, in my opinion.....
The Son's of Katie Elder is worth your consideration Madison.👍🇬🇧
Great reaction - nice to see someone doing Red River - this was part of a turning point in Hollywood - Matt actor Montgomery Clift was part of a trio of rising stars that included Marlon Brando and James Dean, bringing the new Stanislavski Method of acting into the mainstream - and we see a clash of acting styles that also mirrored a growing generational clash, and a clash in ideas of masculinity - other prominent films of the time that showcase this are Streetcar Named Desire and East of Eden
Good reaction. Walter Brennan and a young Montgomery Cliff. I forgot Cliff was in this. Saw this with my dad when I was a small child. Brennan is also good in "To Have and Have Not," with Bogart and Bacal. Cliff, I remember in, "From Here to Eternity."
I have always loved this film. Thank you for yet another great reaction.
Still have red river on VHS
This movie is in my top 3 of favorite westerns.
What a great western. Montgomery Clift was one of the young upcoming actors of that time along with the likes of James Dean, Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper. A couple of good Clift movies worth checking out are The Misfits and A Place in the Sun. Thanks for a great reaction as always Madison.
One of the best movies ever!
Ms Thames, Montgomery Clift(Mathew) is an important figure in movie acting. One can see the difference in acting style between Montgomery Clift and everyone else. He was the third man that bought realistic acting to cinema(together with Brando and James Dean). Please react to Clifts other film "A Place in the Sun" or "From Here to Eternity".
Great fun once again Madison, thx for watching this movie! So much to say but I'll leave it with just one topic. Many parent/child estranged/strained relationships can turn on a dime back to good due to a past history of love & affection. Granted this one became a bit more ominous but it is the 1870's when relationships were very different, very rigid.
The ending was a a cop-out. In the novel Cherry killed Dunson to save Matt. That was the proper resolution.
@@teastrainer3604 Lots of films in the 40s and 50s changed source material for all kinds of reasons. Audiences of the day would never have been happy with a downbeat ending here and the box office would've suffered.
@@glennwisniewski9536 The writer of the novel was one of the writers of the screenplay. Howard Hawks chickened out and changed the ending. Go watch The Ox-Bow Incident and tell me that audiences then couldn't handle tragedy.
@@teastrainer3604 Hi Tea. Didn't say "couldn't handle." Did say, wouldn't be happy with. The Duke wasn't going to be allowed to die and that was that. Money rules. Saw Ox-Bow and From Here to Eternity and others so I agree that these did exist. But this wasn't the late 1960s. Hollywood operated a certain way back then with it's penchant for happier endings and I would sound like a broken record if I complained.
Montgomery Clift, who played Matt, stars in From Here to Eternity which is based on the James Jones novel. From Here to Eternity also stars Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine, all good actors. It's a classic Army movie, placed in the months leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack.
I love the movie choices that you make ! This is one of my favorite John Wayne movies and one of my favorite Montgomery Clift movies
Groot is Walter Brennan. A favorite of director Howard Hawks. Hawks also directed Rio Bravo
howard hawks said this was mostly based on the mutiny on the bounty story,wayne is captain bligh,clift is fletcher christian and the cattle are the breadfruit trees.
Thank you for reacting to this film
This has been continuously voted as one of the greatest western films.
Tess didn't say yes to Dunston she just wanted to make sure that she got a ride to Matt !
I love this especially seeing John Wayne playing a bit of a bad guy.... and then good guy again ✌️🤠
You gotta check out a John Wayne adventure comedy and a bit of a love story... North to Alaska (1960)
John Wayne plays lumberjack turned gold hunter durning the early 1900's Alaskan gold rush !
If you ever watch "The Last Picture Show" with Jeff Bridges, you might note that the movie referred to in the title is "Red River." In many ways Hawks used the classic western form to bridge the older Hollywood style (John Wayne) with the newer 'naturalistic' approach (Montgomery Clift) that was then gaining momemtum in films.
I know your spacing them out, so seeing you enjoy the John Wayne, journey, is so much fun....I can't wait for your reaction to " Big Jake". ❤😂
You should see it on a big screen if you get the chance. It really makes a difference, especially the stampede.
John's movies are just so cool. When I was young that was how most close friends were. We would fight each other then stop shake hands and be done with it. Love your outfit again Lady Mad, cool hat, great earrings, and super shirt'
Tom Dunsan, when we first see him, is wearing US Military uniform trousers so we can surmise that he is fairly recently been discharged from the service.
Matthew Garth, after the 14 near 15 year time skip, had just recently returned to Texas after serving one side or the other during the Civil War.
Straight up Classic
Thanks so much for reacting to this classic western
They must've had to reshoot the final scene. When Dunson and Matt are fist-fighting at the end, Wayne's hair is quite long in the back.
But once Tess steps in to intervene, Wayne's hair is all of a sudden quite short.
Apparently John Ford, after watching Red River, said to John Wayne "I never knew you could act!"
31:15 That's how women won the West ;)
Kudos for reacting to this iconic classic
Hopefully you’ll watch “Giant” all star cast about cattle and oil , Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean , epic !
Giant is great one. When I first watched it I thought it was too long and bloated, but I grew to appreciate it over the years. The book is good too.
I love this movie! Glad to see your reaction, thanks for sharing.
the cattle drive is epic
Duke the Captain Bligh character and Matt the Mr. Christian character in many ways
Wayne’s character reminds me of another movie of his, Sands of Iwo Jima. He’s a borderline villain in that, too.
Not Oklahoma Territory but Colorado Territory. I made that error before. These movies had great directors who did other work.
I am so glad you choose to review Red River. I love this movie! It’s such a good western. Joanna Dru who played Matt’s girlfriend, is also in Friendly Persuasion. She plays Gary Coopers wife, in a story about a Quaker family during the Civil War. Please review that movie, I think you will enjoy it..
Montgomery Cliff played Matt. Excellent actor and who was in a lot of really good movies. There are so many other good John Wayne movies: Shepard of the Hills; She wore a Yellow Ribbon (Joanna Dru is in that one too); the Searchers; Sons of Katie Elder to name a few.
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Follow up…. Joanna Dru did not play Gary Coopers wife in Friendly Persusuian, it was Dorothy Maquire… my bad. Sorry about that.
AS another commenter below said, you will REALLY like The Searchers. It is a "MUST"!
Alright what a classic!
When Walter Brennan started losing his teeth (pretty much after WW2), he started getting typecast as the ornery old coot sidekick. Which is a shame. He was a really good actor. I think some of his best work was opposite his best partner, Gary Cooper, in "The Westerner," "Meet John Doe," and "Pride of the Yankees." He comes off as a harmless geezer in his last days but he could be downright menacing when he was younger.
oh my gosh!!! Yessss!
The last thing I seen Walter Brennen in, when I was 10 in 1966 was a T.V. show called "The Guns of Will Sonnet" Where he Coined the Fraze "No Brag -Just Fact". Walter played a Grandfather who raised his grandson to adulthood after his daughter in law dies when the boy was very young. Now a young adult with his grandpa it's time to find his father the Legendary Jim Sonnet fastest gun in the west and outlaw. Show lasted 2 seasons never found his dad ended abruptly.I think they should make a movie of this show to give closer to us old western fogies. Only 1 requirement grandpa has to have cool voice saying "No Brag - Just Fact"
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It’s funny that you should mention the word “mutiny” since “Red River” was conceived as a western remake of the 1935 film “Mutiny on the Bounty.” The ending was a cop-out because they couldn’t decide how to end the film.
You have to appreciate the river crossing scenes and others with cattle are all real in these old movies. CGI takes all of that away now days. Real people made real movies back then. Gotta love the classics!
oh wow - great pick!
It's amazing how much James Dean drew from Montgomery Clift.
Maddy I'm shocked you wrote a Western having NOT seen the classic movie Red River. I highly recommend a few other great Westerns: Yellow Sky, Jubal, The Ox Bow Incident, and The Long Riders. All are very different, but you will love them.
One of the best fist fights. The start to move the herd is iconic.
Eventually, you’ll get to Wayne’s final movie, The Shootist (1976). A fitting swan song for an actor who first started in Hollywood as a part time prop man in 1926.