howard hawks - red river, 1948
john wayne - thomas dunson
montgomery clift - matthew garth
walter brennan - 'groot' nadine
john ireland - cherry valance
noah beery jr. - buster mcgee
hank worden - simms reeves
chief yowlachie - quo
harry carey jr. - dan latimer
harry carey - mr. melville
(rain)
(century trees)
cinematography - russell harlan(other films shot by russell harlan)
- day of the outlaw, 1959 (d. andré de toth)
- rio bravo, 1959 (d. howard hawks)
- witness for the prosecution, 1957 (d. billy wilder)
- lust for life, 1956 (d. vincente minnelli)
music - dimitri tiomkin
(includes the song red river valley - aka cowboy love song)
editing - christian nyby
(number 1 of 500 for a planned series detailing westerns)
instead of my seventies list, which nearly killed me, i am doing a similar deal for westerns (american and foreign), but one at a time, and including the following:
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2- actors
3- cinematography
4- other business
much indebted to reciprocal information exchange with the famed scottish librarian sir tarrl l. morley of edinburgh who currently teaches classes on the history of cinema (specifically the western) in berlin germany, focusing his attention on - light and abstraction, landscape, water (rain) and liminality as seen in the american western and author of the fine study of minimalism, light and abstraction in the films of anthony mann, john ford and robert bresson.