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Red River trailer. Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas ...
Red River (1948) - This film, starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, used Elgin as the site of most of the exterior shots of the cattle drive.. Oklahoma! (1955) - The train station sequence in this musical film classic, with Gene Nelson singing and dancing the song "Kansas City" partly atop a moving train, was filmed in Elgin.
At age 25, Clift's first Hollywood film role was opposite John Wayne in the Western film Red River; director Howard Hawks was impressed by his recent stage performance and was willing to sign him with no strings attached, which greatly appealed to Clift's sense of independence. [28] Although filmed in 1946, the film was delayed release until ...
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a Republic Pictures series of 51 American Western B-movies released between 1936 and 1943. The films, featuring a trio of Old West adventurers, was based on a series of Western novels by William Colt MacDonald.
A stronger movie filmed on the Rogue was the 1994 movie "The River Wild," starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, which was filmed at Hellgate Canyon 10 miles west of Merlin.
Batjac Productions is an independent film production company co-founded by John Wayne in 1952 as a vehicle for Wayne to both produce and star in movies. The first Batjac production was Big Jim McLain released by Warner Bros. in 1952, and its final film was McQ, in 1974, also distributed by Warner Bros.
See the actual filming locations used to create the dreamy fictional town in Netflix's popular show, all set in Vancouver. You Can Actually Visit Jack's Bar From 'Virgin River' in Real Life Skip ...