Week 4

Red River (1948)

 

This feature film was Howard Hawks' first Western. Hawks assigned different hats to each actor to make it easy for the audience to recognize the cowboys during the cattle drive.  Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift) used Hawks' own hat, which was given to him by Gary Cooper. "Spiders built nests in it," Hawks said, "It looked great."

 

  

 

 Lectures

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Play media comment.Red River (1948) Introductory Lecture (10:23) Transcript Download Transcript

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Play media comment.Red River (1948) Notes on Cattle and Cowboys (9:46) Transcript Download Transcript

 

Films 

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Required Readings

• A Rambling Tribute to Red River  Links to an external site.by Jai Arjun Singh, published January 12, 2011, in Jabberwock
  
  

• Red River Links to an external site. by Roger Ebert, published  in Roger Ebert.com
  
  
• "MOVIE REVIEW: 'Red River,' Horse Opera With Montgomery Clift and John Wayne, Opens at Capitol" Links to an external site. by Bosley Crowther, published October 1, 1948, in The New York Times
  
  
  
  

Other Readings

• Montgomery Clift in 1948 - Part II: Red River Links to an external site.by MC, posted March 2, 2014, at happythoughtsdarling.wordpress.com
  
  
  

 

 

          


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