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Rio Grande (DVD)

John Wayne (actor), Maureen O'Hara (actor) and John Ford (director)
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Synopsis

Cavalry officer Kirby Yorke is hurrying to put down an Indian uprising when his son arrives as a new recruit--with Yorke's ex-wife right behind.

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Review

Sight and Sound, 09/01/2001, p.62, "...The film makes superb use of its rugged locations..."

Uncut, 12/01/2004, p.184, "[R]eflective and leisurely..."

Title Note

45th Anniversary Edition is digitally mastered from the original film negative and includes the original theatrical trailer.

Songs written by Stan Jones and Dale Evans. The eight tunes include: "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen", "My Gal Is Purple", "Yellow Stripes", "Footsore Cavalry".

Features the Sons of the Pioneers.

Release Note

Additional Release Material:

Featurette "The Making of Rio Grande"
Leonard Maltin - Host
Trailer
Original Theatrical

DVD Features:

Region 1 Encoding
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Featurette
Trailer - 1, Original Theatrical

Product Notes

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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