John Wayne-Rio Grande

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John Wayne-Rio Grande Editorial Review:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 10/05/2007 Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Nr

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Duke at his best
If you love westerns, with all the trappings, then this is the one for you. It has all of the excitement of the Indian fights, the harshness of the military life on the frontier, and there is a re-captured love story thrown in for good measure. Many times, throughout his career, John Wayne should have won an Oscar. This is one of the films in which he was simply overlooked. His chemistry with Maureen O'Hara is never better; and this performance shows a more human side to this bigger-than-life icon of the silver screen. I love this movie!

Rio Grande
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara are great on screen together. Even though this movie is in black and white, it is still worth viewing. I enjoy the story, the songs and the drama. In my opinion this is one of John Wayne's better movies, and I have seen them all. I would recommend this movie to any one who enjoys John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, the old west, a great action movie, and a bowl of popcorn.

Quality Story Line
This movie provides quality entertainment, a great story, well written, and needs none of the profanity that is the heart and soul of so many movies today.
The characters pull the different phases of the story together, with their inter-meshing of personalities.

A True Classic
RIO GRANDE(1950)---John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr., Claude Jarman, Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carroll Naish
The last film in John Ford's "cavalry trilogy" and, IMO, the best of the three. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara are one of the great "screen teams" and they are in top form here. Wayne is "Lt. Col. Yorke", O'Hara is "Kathleen", his estranged wife, and Jarman is their son, who has enlisted in the Army and has been posted to his father's command. O'Hara has accompanied Jarman to his posting hoping to persuade his father to let her "buy out" his enlistment and return him to civilian life. To her chagrin, Jarman wants no part of that and refuses to allow it.

The film is "classic Ford". The characters are developed slowly and fully and, as always, the location photography is stunning---the film was shot in Moab, Utah. There is plenty of action involving an Apache uprising. McLaglen is a delight as the "top kick" for Wayne's unit. Ben Johnson and Harry Carey, Jr., give fine performances. The scene where Johnson, Carey, and Jarman ride teams of horses bareback, "Roman style", is just incredible---especially so given the fact that each actor is doing his own riding---no stunt-doubles for any of them. Ben Johnson, who was a National Champion Rodeo Cowboy prior to entering films, is probably the best horseman to ever appear in the movies.

Anyway, this is another movie that I would recommend very highly to any fan of westerns, John Ford, or John Wayne.

Rio Grande
I just watched all three of the calvary movies and Rio Grande was by far the best. Ben Johnson was a scene stealer and various bits of comic relief were great. I originally saw this about 50 years ago and all I recognized for sure was the Roman horsemanship.

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