Casting John Wayne In Red River Saved Howard Hawks From A Behind-The-Scenes Crisis

Jan 3 2023 by /Film

 

By 1948, Howard Hawks had made just about every type of film over his then 22-year career when he decided to take on the most American of movie genres: the Western. Though he'd made plenty of films about rough and/or ruthless men (e.g. "Scarface," "Only Angels Have Wings" and "The Big Sleep"), the closest he'd come to making a true oater was with 1934's "Barbary Coast," which plays like more of a period crime film set in mid-1850s San Francisco. "Red River," written by Borden Chase and...

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