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.
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.)
Even more fun fact: the last movie shown in the book is "The Kid from Texas," an Audie Murphy picture. Likewise, the movie at the start in the book isn't "Father of the Bride," but "Storm Warning," which stars Doris Day, Ginger Rogers and Ronald Reagan.
Heh! John Wayne usually just basically played "John Wayne"....but he did do a really fine acting job in "Red River". It's one of the best westerns ever.
@@georgecoventry8441 Red River, The Searchers, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Quiet Man, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc. In the right role, with the right director he actually was a good actor. Not great like Olivier but, as one director once was supposed to have said, "Duke couldn't play Shakespeare but Olivier couldn't play Ethan Edwards, either"
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.
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.
@@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."
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".
@@williambowman1660 He's wonderful as that, especially when a beleaguered and besieged Jeff Smith looks up at him, and his expression essentially says: "You've still got the floor, son. Go ahead and use it." And how fitting that the movie ends with him rocking back and forth in his chair, pleased that some good took place this day.
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.
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.
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.....
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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. 💯👍
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Way to go, Madison! You are a delight, and it's a treat seeing you review all these great movies from back in my youth (I'm 75 now....). I see you have the sign from Lonesome Dove on your wall! ("We don't rent pigs!") 😄 Good stuff! I hope you get around to reviewing a great "modern" western from the '60's with Paul Newman. It's called "Hud", and it's a masterpiece. Another really fine film from back then with Paul Newman is "Hombre". I highly recommend both of them. "Hombre" is adapted from an Elmore Leonard story. I don't know if you've read any Elmore Leonard, but I think he wrote the finest western short stories of all time, so check them out too if you have time to.
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.
@@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.
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
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'.
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?
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."
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 !
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.
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.
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.
Love watching westerns with you, Madison! I'm just curious, where did you get this version of Red River? There's two versions: one with Walter Brennan's narration & one without. The one without is the one that's become the one most people have seen. This version is very rare. Anyway, the actor who played Matt (which you probably already know at this point) is Montgomery Clift who was so NOT a cowboy in real life. He was a New York, Actors' Studio actor who along with Marlon Brando & James Dean helped to revolutionize film acting. His real life story is very compelling, albeit tragic. Red River was made at the beginning of his career. At the end of his career, he was in another great western called The Misfits that I think you would enjoy. It's a "modern" western, in that it's not set in the 1800s but in the present (which was the early 1960s when it was made). Thank you & keep the reactions to movies coming!! (preferably old--ha ha)
Thank you, Lynn! So glad you're enjoying my reactions (especially the Western ones!) I'm not sure which version I watched - you'd have to ask my editor that one.
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'
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?"
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
OK, thumbs up for this, because it really is a classic. But make a note for future John Wayne westerns. True Grit for his only Oscar. Hondo, for an adaptation of a novel by Louis Lamour...one of the most famous western novel authors.
Hi Madison! First of all, congratulations for the channel, your insight analysis and final reflections denote a true passion for cinema. I am Italian and since you particularly appreciate the western genre allow me to recommend a cult of Italian cinema: Once upon a time in the West (1968), directed by Sergio Leone, soundtrack by Ennio Morricone and starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards. It's a particularly long film but it's really worth it. Although a bit less famous than the "Dollars Trilogy" with Clint Eastwood, it has great artistic value (evocative power of images, sounds, silences, music, plot, acting). I wish you the best!
I've seen this movie countless times. I swore when I was young. I will own one of them. Red River shirt John Wayne's wearing I am 59 and it hasn't happened yet
Bravo. You are the first reactor who I have seen react to this great movie. Really Bravo. I also highly recommend My Name Is Nobody which is a comedic western. Also watch Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 (Not a western) with the guy who plays Garth (Montgomery Clift) older you see what an awesome actor he is
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.
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.
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 RUclips 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
Now, this is a classic. Gets little attention today, but one of the best western movies.
*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.
Even more fun fact: the last movie shown in the book is "The Kid from Texas," an Audie Murphy picture. Likewise, the movie at the start in the book isn't "Father of the Bride," but "Storm Warning," which stars Doris Day, Ginger Rogers and Ronald Reagan.
After seeing this, Director John Ford supposedly said, "I didn't know the big lug could act". About the Duke
Heh! John Wayne usually just basically played "John Wayne"....but he did do a really fine acting job in "Red River". It's one of the best westerns ever.
@@georgecoventry8441 Red River, The Searchers, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Quiet Man, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc. In the right role, with the right director he actually was a good actor. Not great like Olivier but, as one director once was supposed to have said, "Duke couldn't play Shakespeare but Olivier couldn't play Ethan Edwards, either"
@@angieday5183 - Yes, just as you say. He needed the right role, with the right director.
The Searchers is probably Wayne's best performance of his career acting-wise.
The Searchers is a must
Here, here!
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.
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 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
@@brettmuir5679 Coleen Gray was Fen, the woman Tom Dunston loves and loses. Check her out in "Nightmare Alley," "The Sleeping City" and "The Killing
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.
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".
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.
@@RenfrewPrume 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.
@@williambowman1660 He's wonderful as that, especially when a beleaguered and besieged Jeff Smith looks up at him, and his expression essentially says: "You've still got the floor, son. Go ahead and use it." And how fitting that the movie ends with him rocking back and forth in his chair, pleased that some good took place this day.
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.
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.
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.....
You can tell immediately that it is a Dimtri Tiomikin score the moment you hear it.
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.
@@RenfrewPrume Clift made three more movies after "The Misfits": "Judgment at Nuremberg," "Freud: The Secret Passion" and "The Defector."
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.
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
I'm from Detroit....Great to read your comment!!
@@Michael-to6so Good deal! Maybe you can visit one day. I am not too far from there and visited the site. Take care!
In the 1971 classic, The Last Picture Show, Red River is the last movie shown in the movie house.
10:38 this scene
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!
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.
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.
Over the opening credits, the melody will be the duet "My Rifle, my Pony, and Me" in Rio Bravo.
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!!
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!
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.
John Wayne and Howard Hawks in Hatari(1960ish) filmed in Africa. Catching animals for zoos with Henry Mancini’s famous Elephant Walk score
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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You may recognize Noah Beery Jr. from the 1970s TV show the ‘Rockford Files’ with James Garner. He played his father.
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.
One the Duke’s best performances.
Another John Wayne Classic. Stage coach was always one of my favorites, from early John Wayne. 😊
Admirable choice of movies. Especially Red River. That is some serious old school chops.
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.
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!
I'm glad I hadn't seen this film in over 40 years and finally got to watch it again with you!
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.
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. 💯👍
This is a masterpiece!!!
Still have red river on VHS
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.
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
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.
Another great movie!
I love the faces as they shout to start the drive!
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.
Howard Hawks one of the best directors of the Golden Age.
A number of the best character actors in the business in this one
I have always loved this film. Thank you for yet another great reaction.
Way to go, Madison! You are a delight, and it's a treat seeing you review all these great movies from back in my youth (I'm 75 now....). I see you have the sign from Lonesome Dove on your wall! ("We don't rent pigs!") 😄 Good stuff! I hope you get around to reviewing a great "modern" western from the '60's with Paul Newman. It's called "Hud", and it's a masterpiece. Another really fine film from back then with Paul Newman is "Hombre". I highly recommend both of them. "Hombre" is adapted from an Elmore Leonard story. I don't know if you've read any Elmore Leonard, but I think he wrote the finest western short stories of all time, so check them out too if you have time to.
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.
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
This movie is in my top 3 of favorite westerns.
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.
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'.
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. 😎👍
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."
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 !
One of the best movies ever!
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.
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.
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.
Groot is Walter Brennan. A favorite of director Howard Hawks. Hawks also directed Rio Bravo
You should see it on a big screen if you get the chance. It really makes a difference, especially the stampede.
I love this movie! Glad to see your reaction, thanks for sharing.
Love watching westerns with you, Madison! I'm just curious, where did you get this version of Red River? There's two versions: one with Walter Brennan's narration & one without. The one without is the one that's become the one most people have seen. This version is very rare. Anyway, the actor who played Matt (which you probably already know at this point) is Montgomery Clift who was so NOT a cowboy in real life. He was a New York, Actors' Studio actor who along with Marlon Brando & James Dean helped to revolutionize film acting. His real life story is very compelling, albeit tragic. Red River was made at the beginning of his career. At the end of his career, he was in another great western called The Misfits that I think you would enjoy. It's a "modern" western, in that it's not set in the 1800s but in the present (which was the early 1960s when it was made). Thank you & keep the reactions to movies coming!! (preferably old--ha ha)
Thank you, Lynn! So glad you're enjoying my reactions (especially the Western ones!) I'm not sure which version I watched - you'd have to ask my editor that one.
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
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'
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?"
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.
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". ❤😂
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.
The Son's of Katie Elder is worth your consideration Madison.👍🇬🇧
You should definitely check out rio bravo, rio lobo, el dorado, also green beret with John Wayne
Not Oklahoma Territory but Colorado Territory. I made that error before. These movies had great directors who did other work.
Thanks so much for reacting to this classic western
oh wow - great pick!
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".
Straight up Classic
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.
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.
Wayne’s character reminds me of another movie of his, Sands of Iwo Jima. He’s a borderline villain in that, too.
Finally......Ya should have done this a while back. This and "The Searcher" are basically 2 of Wayne's greatest performance, in my opinion.....
Good one, Madison. I’ve been wondering what the lyrics would be to Moon River if it was changed to Red River.
31:15 That's how women won the West ;)
Kudos for reacting to this iconic classic
OK, thumbs up for this, because it really is a classic. But make a note for future John Wayne westerns. True Grit for his only Oscar. Hondo, for an adaptation of a novel by Louis Lamour...one of the most famous western novel authors.
the cattle drive is epic
Hi Madison!
First of all, congratulations for the channel, your insight analysis and final reflections denote a true passion for cinema.
I am Italian and since you particularly appreciate the western genre allow me to recommend a cult of Italian cinema:
Once upon a time in the West (1968), directed by Sergio Leone, soundtrack by Ennio Morricone and starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards.
It's a particularly long film but it's really worth it. Although a bit less famous than the "Dollars Trilogy" with Clint Eastwood, it has great artistic value (evocative power of images, sounds, silences, music, plot, acting).
I wish you the best!
Thank you! I’d totally react to Once upon a Time in the West if I hadn’t already seen it. Great film!
I definitely recommend you see John Wayne in the first True Grit movie. It was awesome. I also like the new logo opening, it looks really cool.
Another great movie. Congratulations.
I've seen this movie countless times. I swore when I was young. I will own one of them. Red River shirt John Wayne's wearing I am 59 and it hasn't happened yet
Alright what a classic!
Bravo. You are the first reactor who I have seen react to this great movie. Really Bravo. I also highly recommend My Name Is Nobody which is a comedic western. Also watch Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 (Not a western) with the guy who plays Garth (Montgomery Clift) older you see what an awesome actor he is
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.
I routinely quote several lines from this film. The one I say most often: “NOTHing YOU can SAY or DO . . .”
The "yahoo" shouts as they start their trek are referenced in City Slickers.
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.