Rio Grande
Screening on Film
Directed by John Ford.
With John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Jarman, Jr.
US, 1950, 35mm, black & white, 105 min.
With John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Jarman, Jr.
US, 1950, 35mm, black & white, 105 min.
In Ford’s most courtly, underrated cavalry movie, a colonel (John Wayne), his wife (Maureen O’Hara), and his estranged son are drawn together during an episode in the Apache Wars on the Mexican border. There are lots of delicious songs from the Sons of the Pioneers and a luminous scene (shot in black-and-white) where Wayne and O’Hara stroll down by the immortal titular river.
