I'd always meant to watch this film, as it makes all sorts of lists of classics. Somehow, I had always put it off. I think I was assuming there was no way I was going to be able to buy Mongomery Clift as some sort of rough and tumble cowboy, but he's great. Indeed, for the first 1:45 or so, this might be the best western of all time. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Her name is Joanne Dru.
It's not really Ms. Dru's fault. She plays the part of Tess Millay fairly well. The problem is that Tess Millay is the most ridiculous, annoying, is-this-character-really-supposed-to-be-in-this-movie? charcater this side of Jar-Jar Binks. If the Great Gazoo had shown up on John Wayne's shoulder, it would have been more plausible than the ridiculous tripe we're supposed to believe about Ms. Millay. You really do have to see it to do justice to just what a train-wreck this character is, but here's a small summary:
She is (I think) a person from New Orleans. Not long after we meet her, she's shot through the shoulder with an arrow. Maybe it was all those dicks she'd been riding in Louisiana, but this doesn't see to phase her in the slightest. For reasons entirely unclear (because they don't, well, exist), Ms. Millay "hates" Clift's character, who she has known for five minutes, and who has (thus far) had the audicity to risk his life trying to save her, and pulled the aforementioned arrow out of her shoulder. After delivering a few sharp-tounged lines that no 4th-grader would have dared to write, she slaps Clift before fainting (really? I mean, was nobody watching this mess unfold? where the hell was John Wayne when these re-writes were pouring in?). When she wakes up, she is now madly in love with Clift's character (again for reasons entirely unclear, because they don't, well, exist) and wanders off into the mist to screw him next to some cattle.
Now, I won't give away the ending, but lets jsut say Ms. Millay's worst scenes are still ahead of her, including the film's climactic showdown on the streets of Abiliene. Just awful.
Interestingly, Ms. Dru was Peter Marshall's (Hollywood Squares) sister. She died 15 years ago, no doubt at least partially from embarrasment.
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I'd always meant to watch this film, as it makes all sorts of lists of classics. Somehow, I had always put it off. I think I was assuming there was no way I was going to be able to buy Mongomery Clift as some sort of rough and tumble cowboy, but he's great. Indeed, for the first 1:45 or so, this might be the best western of all time. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Her name is Joanne Dru.
It's not really Ms. Dru's fault. She plays the part of Tess Millay fairly well. The problem is that Tess Millay is the most ridiculous, annoying, is-this-character-really-supposed-to-be-in-this-movie? charcater this side of Jar-Jar Binks. If the Great Gazoo had shown up on John Wayne's shoulder, it would have been more plausible than the ridiculous tripe we're supposed to believe about Ms. Millay. You really do have to see it to do justice to just what a train-wreck this character is, but here's a small summary:
She is (I think) a person from New Orleans. Not long after we meet her, she's shot through the shoulder with an arrow. Maybe it was all those dicks she'd been riding in Louisiana, but this doesn't see to phase her in the slightest. For reasons entirely unclear (because they don't, well, exist), Ms. Millay "hates" Clift's character, who she has known for five minutes, and who has (thus far) had the audicity to risk his life trying to save her, and pulled the aforementioned arrow out of her shoulder. After delivering a few sharp-tounged lines that no 4th-grader would have dared to write, she slaps Clift before fainting (really? I mean, was nobody watching this mess unfold? where the hell was John Wayne when these re-writes were pouring in?). When she wakes up, she is now madly in love with Clift's character (again for reasons entirely unclear, because they don't, well, exist) and wanders off into the mist to screw him next to some cattle.
Now, I won't give away the ending, but lets jsut say Ms. Millay's worst scenes are still ahead of her, including the film's climactic showdown on the streets of Abiliene. Just awful.
Interestingly, Ms. Dru was Peter Marshall's (Hollywood Squares) sister. She died 15 years ago, no doubt at least partially from embarrasment.
Nothing, though I will say that Ms. Dru was a very pretty woman, and I'd have been happy to have seen her sans clothes. She deserved better than this, but hell, ANYONE would have deserved better than this.
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Nothing, though I will say that Ms. Dru was a very pretty woman, and I'd have been happy to have seen her sans clothes. She deserved better than this, but hell, ANYONE would have deserved better than this.
I hate Red River and found it to be a B- western. What is the deal with this common everyday piece of crap movie? Great movie? No way!!! J. Wayne came out as a interesting bad guy that propelled him into "The Searchers" and better roles down the line but the movie itself was garbage. Boring, and M. Clift was so miscast as to be a joke.
GL, Doc
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Maine, You are gutsy and a proper critic.
I hate Red River and found it to be a B- western. What is the deal with this common everyday piece of crap movie? Great movie? No way!!! J. Wayne came out as a interesting bad guy that propelled him into "The Searchers" and better roles down the line but the movie itself was garbage. Boring, and M. Clift was so miscast as to be a joke.
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