Rio Grande

John Ford's Most Powerful Drama. The Breathtaking Saga of the United States Cavalry! The third installment of John Ford's trilogy...
Rio Grande
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 7, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1950
  • Label: Olive

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Fresh75%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,749
Rating: B -- A minor but enjoyable John Ford and John Wayne collaboration. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jul 20, 2005
[R]eflective and leisurely...
Uncut
Dec 1, 2004
Rating: B -- In this Ford's Western, part of a trilogy that also includes She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wayne gets to play the tough biological and sociological father of his recruits, which include his son. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Aug 9, 2006
...The film makes superb use of its rugged locations...
Sight and Sound
Sep 1, 2001
I like it better than the problematic Fort Apache; it's far simpler and more effective. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jan 4, 2008
Rating: 2/5 -- a cookie-cutter, spit-'em-out, assembly-line product
Filmcritic.com
Oct 19, 2002

Product Description:

In RIO GRANDE, the last part of John Ford's classic Cavalry Trilogy, John Wayne stars as Kirby York, a colonel at an army outpost along the U.S.-Mexico border where the Apache are always a problem. When his son, Jeff (Claude Jarman Jr.), whom he hasn't seen in more than a decade, arrives at the fort after flunking out of West Point, Yorke treats him coldly, warning the young man not to expect preferential treatment, which Jeff assures him he doesn't want. Yorke's ex-wife, Kathleen (Maureen O'Hara), appears, intending to persuade Jeff to leave the army. Yorke refuses to do the necessary paperwork to release his son, a decision seconded by Jeff, who has begun to adapt to army life--and before Kathleen can regroup for another attempt, the fort is attacked by the Apache. The making of RIO GRANDE was mandated by producer Herbert Yates, who would agree to finance the director's THE QUIET MAN only if Ford first made a Western, as insurance, with that film's proposed leading actors. Ford continues the series' realistic depiction of the rigors of life on a cavalry post in the late-19th-century Southwest, and members of the director's stock company--most notably Victor McLaglen, Harry Carey Jr., and Ben Johnson--acquit themselves admirably.

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  • Sales Rank: 763
  • UPC: 887090044905
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