Il fiume rosso

Titolo originale: Red River
Regia: Howard Hawks |
Anno: 1948
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Western
Tag: texas | kansas, usa | cattle drive | revenge | black and white | cattle | adopted child | cattle empire | 1850s |
Cast: John Wayne | Montgomery Clift | Joanne Dru | Walter Brennan | Coleen Gray | Harry Carey | John Ireland | Noah Beery Jr. | Harry Carey, Jr. | Chief Yowlachie | Paul Fix | Hank Worden | Mickey Kuhn | Ray Hyke | Hal Taliaferro | John Bose | Buck Bucko | Roy Bucko | Lane Chandler | Davison Clark | Tex Cooper | Harry Cording | Victor Cox | Richard Farnsworth | Paul Fierro | Carol Henry | George Lloyd | Pierce Lyden | Frank Meredith | John Merton | Jack Montgomery | Ivan Parry | Lee Phelps | Harry 'Snub' Pollard | John Rice | Danny Sands | William Self | Carl Sepulveda | Ray Spiker | Glenn Strange | Tom Tyler | Dan White | Guy Wilkerson | Shelley Winters |

Nel 1851 un allevatore, Tom Dunson, decide di stabilirsi con un fedele amico, Groot Nadine, e un giovane orfano raccolto lungo il cammino, Matthew Garth, presso il confine settentrionale del Texas per crearsi una propria mandria. La fortuna arride all'uomo, che nel giro di quindici anni diventa ricco, ma la ricchezza ha il suo prezzo ed egli non è più l'uomo generoso di un tempo, anzi, è diventato duro con chiunque lo contrasti, compreso il giovane Matt, nonostante lo consideri ormai come fosse il proprio figlio.

Frasi

Matt Garth: What's the best way to the stockyards? [...] D
Thomas Dunson: Go ahead. Say it! Nadine Groot: Yo [...] D
Thomas Dunson: [Giving Matt back his gun] Are you [...] D
Mr. Melville: I'll buy the drinks when it's over. D
[Dunson plans to take Don Diego's land from him] [...] D
Nadine Groot: Never liked seeing strangers. Maybe [...] D
[last lines] Thomas Dunson: When we get back to t [...] D
Thomas Dunson: Give me ten years, and I'll have th [...] D
Cherry: There are only two things more beautiful t [...] D
Thomas Dunson: Who are you? Cherry Valance: Some [...] D
Cherry Valance: You're fast with that gun, Matt. A [...] D
[Groot complains about the dust] Groot Nadine: Be [...] D
Nadine Groot: [Matt has his back to Groot; Dunson [...] D
Matt Garth: You'd have shot him between the eyes. [...] D
Teeler Yancy: I shouldn't have run away. I should [...] D
Mr. Melville: You know that young man isn't going [...] D
Matthew Garth: Buster, where's Cherry? Buster McG [...] D
Thomas Dunson: Cherry was right. You're soft, you [...] D
Thomas Dunson: We brought nothing into this world [...] D
Thomas Dunson: I don't like quitters, especially w [...] D
Nadine Groot: He didn't know about money, Matt. He [...] D
Sims Reeves: Plantin' and readin', plantin' and re [...] D
Mr. Melville: There's three times in a man's life [...] D
Matt, as a boy: How did you know when he was gonna [...] D
Thomas Dunson: Take 'em to Missouri, Matt! D
Sims Reeves: Well, I don't like to see things goin [...] D
[first title cards] Title crawl: Among the annals [...] D
[Groot loses his false teeth to Quo in a poker gam [...] D
Nadine Groot: [to Matt] It's funny... funny what t [...] D
Tess Millay: Whoever would have thought that you t [...] D