Any short list of the all-time greatest Westerns is bound to include this 1948 Howard ... more
Hawks classic about an epic cattle drive.Red Riverfeatures one of John Wayne's greatest performances. Like his Ethan Edwards in John Ford's 1956 masterpieceThe Search...
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One of the finest westerns ever made, this 'monumental, sweeping and powerful' masterpiece ... more
(Variety) features impassioned performances, stunning cinematography and adventure on a grand scale. Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clint (in his screen debut),...
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Hawks classic about an epic cattle drive.Red Riverfeatures one of John Wayne's greatest performances. Like his Ethan Edwards in John Ford's 1956 masterpieceThe Search...
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John Wayne is Tom Dunson a cattle baron who built his ranch with hard work and a ... more
determination to kill any man who would dare try to take his land. But when plummeting livestock values endanger his beloved ranch Tom and his adopted son set out to get...
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The Red River Lodge in Fargo, N.D., is within four miles of the Plains Art Museum, Depot ... more
Plaza and the Fargo Walk of Fame. Moorhead Center Mall is just over miles away. Renovated in 2006, the lodge serves complimentary continental breakfasts. Internet access is available in the lobby along with complimentary newspapers. Guestrooms at the smoke free hotel provide cable television via 27 inch flat screens and complimentary high speed Internet access.
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The Red River Lodge in Fargo, N.D., is within four miles of the Plains Art Museum, Depot ... more
Plaza and the Fargo Walk of Fame. Moorhead Center Mall is just over miles away. Renovated in 2006, the lodge serves complimentary continental breakfasts. Internet access is available in the lobby along with complimentary newspapers. Guestrooms at the smoke free hotel provide cable television via 27 inch flat screens and complimentary high speed Internet access.
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Production Year: 1971 - Westerns - Director: Richard Benedict, Douglas Heyes, Leslie Martinson - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Ben Murphy, Pete Duel
Production Year: 1959 - Westerns - Director: Howard Hawks - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Ward Bond, Claude Akins, Walter Brennan, John Russell
Production Year: 1976 - Westerns - Director: Irvin Kershner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Richard Harris
Production Year: 1949 - Westerns - Director: John Ford - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, George O'Brien
Advantages: Marilyn Monroe looking beautiful and singing well, good cast, beautiful views Disadvantages: Some dull bits, it's a Western!
Tommy Rettig, who was later to star as Jeff Miller in Lassie in the 1950s). After Mark's mother dies, Matt sends for his son and is trying to be a good father and be there for him, after their years apart.
Marilyn first appears about five minutes into the film. She enters the saloon bar wearing her famous showgirl outfit, a red glittery dress slit up to the thigh on one side, accompanied by red high heels. She plays the guitar, singing One Silver Dollar - the first of four songs she performs in the movie.
She had a lovely voice and holds the notes well throughout, convincing in her role as a singer and showgirl. She also sings the title track - River of No Return (in a gaudy yellow and red costume I don't like much) and Down in the Meadow, but my favourite is I'm Gonna File My Claim.
For this number, she wears a long green velvet ...
Advantages: A well acted dark drama for adults Disadvantages: Some might not like such a sombre tale.
Mystic River is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane a dark mystery thriller with a less than Hollywood ending. The screenplay by Brian Helgeland is well-crafted and Clint Eastwood directs with an easy morose pace that?s guaranteed to grip the audience and depress the mood. The haunting background music was also written by Eastwood.
The story takes place in a Boston suburb. Three young boys Jimmy, Sean and Dave are playing in the street and decide to write their names in some freshly laid cement. A man claiming to be a detective interrogates the boys and makes Dave Boyle get into his car. The subsequent events scar the boy for life. It is 30years later as adults when the three boy?s destinies are once more entangled that the film examines the effects of this event on the lives of them all.
Dave (Tim Robbins) comes home ...
Advantages: Great descriptions of the times, Australia Disadvantages: None
The Secret River
London 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is the book of the month at our book club and is probably not a book I would have chosen for myself but is an extremely interesting portrail into life for people in that age and of the two countries.
This story is basically in two parts, Will's London life and then his Australian life. The two are most definitely linked to each other but in terms of Will's and Sal's feelings and adventures they are worlds apart, or you could say continents apart. The story ...
RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth, a young boy orphaned by an Indian raid. Years later, Matthew (Montgomery Clift) returns from the Civil War and joins Dunson on a massive cattle drive north undertaken to avoid financial ruin. Stampedes and Indian attacks build tension, but it is Dunson's ironfisted leadership that causes the most problems, finally bringing the action to a boiling point that pits father against son. This bold canvas of the American frontier features stirring performances, including Clift in his first film and Wayne in one of his finest and most complex roles, stunning photography shot on location in Arizona, and a perfect balance of action, drama, romance, and comedy from one of Hollywood's greatest directors.
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