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Red River

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Red River	label	Red River
Red River	page	RedRiver
Red River	comment	A 1948 movie starring John Wayne, the first Western directed by Howard Hawks. Perhaps the ultimate Cattle Drive movie, it is based on the novel The Blazing Guns of the Chisholm Trail by Borden Chase, which was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.Remarkable as the first movie in which John Wayne played a character with greater depth, an aging man, and a larger-than-life borderline Übermensch. On first seeing it, John Ford famously commented: "I never knew that big son-of-a-bitch could act!" Ford would go on to use Wayne in a similar way in The Searchers, and it is perhaps significant that critics have likened the Duke's character in both these films to Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick. Originally Hawks wanted to cast Gary Cooper in the lead, but Cooper demanded the screenplay be changed in order to make his character more sympathetic, so Hawks offered the part to Wayne instead. Which turned out a good thing, because not only could Wayne teach Hawks a thing or two about filming Westerns, but he also was instrumental in getting the budget doubled to $1.5 million.In the prologue, Tom Dunson (Wayne) and his sidekick Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan) set up a farm on the Red River in Texas. Dunson's lady love Fen is killed in an Indian attack on a wagon trek, but he picks up the sole survivor, Matt Garth, and adopts him, using his cow as the first of germ of what is to become a giant cattle farm.Many years later, Matt (Montgomery Clift) returns from the The American Civil War at a time when Dunson and the other farmers are in trouble because there is no buyer in Texas for their cattle. So the farmers pool their herds together for a 10,000-head drive to Missouri on what will be known as the Chisholm Trail under Dunson's leadership. Since Dunson in the prologue had not hesitated to shoot off the rightful Mexican owner of part of his land, it comes as no surprise that he runs the drive a bit harshly when times are tough. Although there are plenty of dangers and hairy moments on the drive, including a big stampede, to make this somewhat understandable, Dunson does not exactly behave rationally after a while, for instance in his outright refusal to change the direction to Abilene, which is nearer and where a new railhead has just been opened.Things come to a head when after fording the titular Red River Dunson wants to hang two of his cowhands. The crew mutinies and the trek heads on for Abilene under Matt's leadership, leaving an injured Dunson behind. On the trail they rescue a trek of settlers from a Comanche attack, where Matt meets Tess Millay (Joanne Dru) and falls in love with her. Tom Dunson meanwhile has set off in hot pursuit with some hired gunmen, swearing to get the herd back and kill Matt. He later comes across Tess as well, who tries to dissuade him from his mad quest in vain.After the arrival in Abilene, Matt succeeds in selling off the entire herd, but then has to face up with Dunson the following day. As Matt refuses to draw, Dunson can't bring himself to shoot him in cold blood and the showdown devolves into a fistfight, which is finally broken up by Tess. Says Dunson to Matt: "You better marry that girl."Not to be confused with the time travelling Shoujo Manga of the same name. Film debut of Montgomery Clift, although the long delay after production wrapped meant that Clift's second film, The Search, actually came out first.
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Red River / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Red River / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Dunson punishes Bunk Kenneally for causing a stampede and getting a man killed by bullwhipping him.
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Red River / int_12eee2cf	type	Heal It with Booze
Red River / int_12eee2cf	comment	Heal It with Booze: After Dunson is wounded in the leg during a confrontation with three deserters, Groot treats it by pouring whiskey on it.
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Red River / int_19077d9e	type	Professional Gambler
Red River / int_19077d9e	comment	Professional Gambler: Tess and her troupe.
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Red River / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Red River / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Bunk Keneally has a habit of stealing from the sugar supply. Eventually he knocks over a bunch of pans while stealing sugar, causing the cattle to stampede.
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Red River / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
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Red River / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Red River / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Cherry. He gets shot by Dunson, who normally always goes for the kill, but he doesn't immediately fall to the ground and a few people instantly rush over to check on him. Given they're in Abilene it's possible he got medical attention in time, but no clear answer is given.
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Red River / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Red River / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Borden Chase objected to what he considered the historically inaccurate use of six-shooters. Howard Hawks insisted on using them, however, so he didn't have to stop a scene to reload guns.
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Red River / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Red River / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Dunson tells Matt this after the mutiny. The threat turns out to be nothing but hot air.
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Red River / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Red River / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Thomas Dunson was a pretty abusive boss during the drive. He locked his men in a contract bind where none of them could quit, forced them to drive the ten thousand cattle crawling through hot, dry country for countless laborious, frustrating days without allowing any of his men to have food, water or rest. And then he also tried to whip one of his men just for causing some of the cattle to be lost and/or killed, executed three men who tried to abandon the drive (although Matt and Cherry also took part.), attempted to hang two men who started a separate cattle drive, and eventually going after his adopted son.
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Red River / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Red River / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: When Cherry tries to stop Dunson before the final showdown with Matt, he barely even slows him down.
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Red River / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Red River / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Matt and Cherry. When they first meet, they admire each other's guns and have a friendly bout of shooting. Everyone around them braces for the inevitable eventual confrontation. Doesn't happen—their mutual respect leads to a kind of friendship.
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Red River / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Red River / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Part of Matt's Improbable Aiming Skills; he does this to a cowboy to prevent a fatal shootout between said cowboy and Dunson.
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Red River / int_4f84b27a	type	Suck Out the Poison
Red River / int_4f84b27a	comment	Suck Out the Poison: Well, maybe Matt really did think that Tess had been shot with a poison arrow. Or maybe he just wanted some action.
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Red River / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Red River / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Groot, depending on which cut of the film you're watching. The cut commonly available in latter days has pages from a diary instead of spoken narration.
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Red River / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
Red River / int_61375e57	comment	Later on, when she shows up in his hotel room to warn him Dunson's coming, it's followed by a Big Damn Kiss ... and then a fade to another scene.
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Red River / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Red River / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: Red River has been described as "Mutiny on the Bounty on the prairie". Dunson's increasingly erratic and tyrannical behavior leads to Matt taking control of the cattle drive and going to Abilene instead of Missouri. The last straw is when Dunson says he's going to hang three men who tried to leave the party.
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Red River / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Red River / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Tom's love interest, Fen gets a single scene before she dies offscreen to the Indians.
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Red River / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Red River / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Fen pleads for Dunson to take her with him at the beginning, he tells her nothing she does or says will convince him to take her along. Later, when Dunson first meets Tess, she tells him Matt has already left, and used the same line on her, which makes Dunson uncomfortable.
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Red River / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Red River / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Quo the faithful Indian says stuff like "Me bet one silver dollar. Put up, or keep face closed." (Of course, Quo actually wins that poker hand.)
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Red River / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
Red River / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: Red River was based on the novel The Blazing Guns of the Chisholm Trail by Borden Chase.
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Red River / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Red River / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Tom Dunson died of his wound in the book and Matt takes his body back to Texas to be buried on the ranch.
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Red River / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Red River / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Cherry Valance till his Heel–Face Turn anyway.
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Red River / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Red River / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: There isn't a photo. But otherwise this trope is played straight as Dan the cowboy waxes on about the nice red shoes and all the other things he'd like to buy his pretty bride, only to die in the very next scene during the stampede.
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Red River / int_85b91cc1	type	Retired Gunfighter
Red River / int_85b91cc1	comment	Retired Gunfighter
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Red River / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Red River / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Cherry's morality was always a little shaky until his Heel–Face Turn at the end. And Mr. Dunson kept spiralling downward up until the very end.
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Red River / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Red River / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: A majority of the story is centered around Thomas Dunson and his tyrannical reign of the cattle industry and pretty bad leadership. He loses the "protagonist" part in the second half when Matt eventually turns against him and they become enemies.
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Red River / int_8b5e7316	type	Cattle Baron
Red River / int_8b5e7316	comment	Cattle Baron: Dunson.
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Red River / int_8b823b6e	type	Cattle Drive
Red River / int_8b823b6e	comment	Cattle Drive: The main focus of the film.
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Red River / int_904530eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Red River / int_904530eb	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: The writers admitted that the film was Mutiny on the Bounty, with cows.
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Red River / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Red River / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Tess is pinned to a wagon by an arrow through the shoulder. She doesn't even stop talking.
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Red River / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Red River / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Dunson saying, "I don't like quitters—especially when they're not good enough to finish what they started."
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Red River / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Red River / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Tom Dunson.
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Red River / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Red River / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Matt has a habit of rubbing his nose with his index finger.
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Red River / int_9eac471e	type	False Teeth Tomfoolery
Red River / int_9eac471e	comment	False Teeth Tomfoolery: Groot bets his false teeth, which he only uses for eating, in a poker game and loses. He's forced to go to the winner whenever he wants to eat.
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Red River / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Red River / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Cherry Valance is a well known gunman.
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Red River / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Red River / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Bunk Keneally accidentally started the stampede making a clatter while trying to steal sugar from the chuck wagon, which leads to Dan Latimer's death.
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Red River / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Red River / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Tess and Matt meet up when he's on night watch, they have a heart-to-heart ... and then we fade to them laying back and flirting. Later on, when she shows up in his hotel room to warn him Dunson's coming, it's followed by a Big Damn Kiss ... and then a fade to another scene.
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Red River / int_a61d8e40	type	Fastest Gun in the West
Red River / int_a61d8e40	comment	Fastest Gun in the West: Cherry wants to go toe to toe with Matt, to see who's the best.
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Red River / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Red River / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Dunson has an odd habit of giving a Christian burial and reading a service to the men he murders. The three guys who escape from his cattle drive call him on this as he's about to execute them.
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Red River / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Red River / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The bracelet that Tom Dunson gives to Fen and later on Matt gives to Tess.
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Red River / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Red River / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: This being a Howard Hawks film, it's a World of Snark. Everyone from Dunson to Groot to Matt to Cherry to Tess to Quo.
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Red River / int_b14836af	type	JustAFleshWound
Red River / int_b14836af	comment	Just a Flesh Wound: Tess barely reacts to having an arrow pierce her shoulder. Though it appears to hurt a lot more coming out.
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Red River / int_b2c508ed	type	Young Gun
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Red River / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Red River / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: As the title suggests, red appears a lot - the Red River, spilt red blood from death, Dan Latimer planned to buy his wife red shoes, etc.
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Red River / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: One of Dunson's men, Bunk Kenneally, has a predilection for stealing sugar from the chuck wagon, which has disastrous consequences when his clattering one night rouses the skittish cattle to stampede.
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Red River / int_bae0dc44	type	Animal Stampede
Red River / int_bae0dc44	comment	Animal Stampede: The Cattle Drive that forms the main plot is interrupted by a stampede. Many cattle are lost, a man is killed, and Dunson starts growing more erratic under the pressure.
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Red River / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Red River / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Dan Latimer talks about what he's going to do with the money he gets when the cattle drive is over. He talks about buying a home and getting his wife a pair of fancy red shoes. He's dead five minutes later.
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Red River / int_d339924e	type	Camp Cook
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Red River / int_e91cc721	type	In the Style of
Red River / int_e91cc721	comment	In the Style of: It seems like Howard Hawks was trying to make a John Ford western.
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Red River / int_f76425d3	type	MacGuffin Escort Mission
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Red River / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Red River / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: There are two female speaking parts in the film - Dunson's ill-fated fiance and Tess Millay.
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