Red River (1948)

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Movie
German title Red River
Original title Red River
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1948
length 133 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Howard Hawks
script Borden Chase ,
Charles Snow
production Howard Hawks,
Charles K. Feldman ,
(Executive Producer,
anonymous)
music Dimitri Tiomkin
camera Russell Harlan
cut Christian Nyby
occupation

Red River (formerly German title: Panik am Roten Fluß ; English original title: Red River ) is an American western by the director Howard Hawks from 1948, which was filmed in 1946. United Artists was the theatrical distributor. Screenwriter Borden Chase , who also wrote the original story, later turned the material into a western novel. The eponymous river is also called the Red River of the South .

action

The rancher Thomas Dunson and his foster son Matthew "Matt" Garth want to bring a herd of over 9,000 cattle from Texas across the famous Red River to Missouri . This becomes a tremendous strain for humans and animals. Dunson demands everything from his people. He wants to whip a cowboy who inadvertently makes noise one evening and thus drives the resting herd into a panic-like escape. He even believes that he can determine the life and death of his cowboys. After crossing the river, he wants to hang two rebellious cowboys. His foster son bravely opposes him. There are quarrels that go so far that Dunson falls out with Matt and has to stay behind on the prairie without his loyal assistant Groot. Matt takes the cattle on the Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Kansas, to the Kansas Pacific Railway line. Dunson has since vowed revenge and is pursuing Matt. In Abilene there is a showdown between the foster father and son. However, through the intervention of Tess, who had meanwhile saved Matt from Indians, the two succeed in reconciling.

Remarkable

Two peculiarities made film history in this film: The Stampede (the panic escape of the cattle), especially through the images of cameras dug into the ground and covered with armored glass. For the first time in a Hollywood production, a dynamic hand-held camera was deliberately used stylistically (beatings at the cattle trough).

Harry Carey Sr., one of the leading western actors in silent films, has his penultimate film appearance here; he died before Red River was released . Carey only plays with his son Harry Carey Jr. in Red River . The character of Carey junior had already perished when Carey senior's character appeared for the first time. So the two cannot be seen together in one scene.

Synchronized versions

From Red River three dubbed versions exist. In 1951 the film was released in German cinemas in a version shortened to 92 minutes under the title Panik am Roten Fluß . John Wayne was then dubbed by Heinz Engelmann . A new dubbed version was created in 1964 for the re-performance by United Artists . In 1968 the ARD, which broadcast the film for the first time in an uncut version, synchronized it again.

role actor Voice actor 1964 Dubbing actor 1968
Thomas Dunson John Wayne Arnold Marquis Arnold Marquis
Matthew Garth Montgomery Clift Gerhart Lippert Randolf Kronberg
Tess Millay Joanne Dru Rosemarie Fendel Rose-Marie Kirstein
Groot Nadine Walter Brennan ? Bum Kruger
Fen Coleen Gray Eva Pflug ?
Mr. Melville Harry Carey Sr. Erik Jelde Ernst Constantine
Cherry Valance John Ireland Klaus Kindler Kurt E. Ludwig
Buster McGee Noah Beery Jr. Wolfgang Hess Fred Klaus
Dan Latimer Harry Carey Jr. Eberhard Mondry Hannes Gromball

Reviews

“Howard Hawks ingeniously staged work - by the way, Hawks' first collaboration with John Wayne - combines epic and psychological elements into a gripping adventure story about the trek. Seldom has a classic western achieved such perfect harmony between the dramaturgy, camera work, music and cast. A budget of over three million dollars was relatively high for the time. Almost half of the budget was spent on entire areas and 5000 cattle. "

- Prism Online

“The tightly told story always gives the opportunity for virtuoso staged, vivid sequences (...) in which the pioneering spirit of the West can be felt. Excellent representations of all roles, but above all that of the adopted son by Montgomery Clift in his first film, round off the flawless impression of the film (...). "

- Wolfram Tichy , Liz-Anne Bawden et al.

“'Panic on the Red River' was realized with enormous effort. [...] Many scenes, numerous images of this great film have long since become unforgettable moments in the history of Western [...] In many] spectacular scenes the viewer gets a revealing impression of what the work of Cowboys really meant , a job that was as strenuous as it was life-threatening, as hard as it was full of privation ... "

- Michael Hanisch

“A sometimes arousing and well-designed Western with a good cut, about a trek of 10,000 cattle from Texas to Missouri. In its genre a work of almost legendary reputation, which should not, however, obscure the usual typifications and an overly uncritical recognition of a leadership role characterized by violence. "

- Protestant film observer

"Howard Hawks' first major western combines epic and psychological elements into a gripping adventure story of brilliant staging and a unique quality of documentary."

- Lexicon of international film

meaning

“Red River describes the transition to the division of labor (rearing, shipping, sales) in the livestock industry. On a political level it is the transition from the feudal rule of Dunson (Wayne) to the civil rule of Matt (Clift), on the psychological level the parricide by the son. The film ends a little unmotivated, but historically fitting, with the appearance of the woman at the beginning of her emancipation. "

- Enno Patalas

Awards

In 1949 the film received an Oscar nomination in the categories of Best Original Story and Best Editing .

Director Howard Hawks was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award , Borden Chase and Charles Schnee were nominated for the script for the Writers Guild of America Award .

In 1990 Red River was inducted into the National Film Registry .

media

literature

  • Borden Chase : Red River. A classic western novel (original title: Red River ). Western Classics. German by Otto Kühn . Heyne, Munich 1971, 140 pp.
  • Norbert Grob: Red River / Panic on the red river in classic films - descriptions and comments / Ed. By Thomas Koebner . 5th edition, Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-030033-6 ; Volume 2: 1946 - 1962, pp. 93-98
  • Joe Hembus , The Western Lexicon - 1567 Films from 1894 to Today ; extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus; Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08121-8 ; Ss. 501-504
  • Peter Osteried: The Great John Wayne Book ; MPW, Hille 2010, ISBN 978-3-931608-99-6 ; Ss. 146-157
  • Mark Ricci, Joe Hembus (Ed.): John Wayne and his films (OT: The Films of John Wayne ). Citadel Movie Books. Goldmann, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-10202-2
  • Marcus Stiglegger: Red River / Panic on the Red River in Film Genres - Western / Ed. By Thomas Koebner. Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018402-9 ; Ss. 120-125

DVD release

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certification of Release for Red River . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 23 33b-b V).
  2. ^ Lexicon of the international film QZ , Frankfurt am Main 2002, page 2529
  3. ↑ According to the synchronous database
  4. ^ Lexicon of the international film QZ , Frankfurt am Main 2002, page 2529
  5. ↑ Synchronous database
  6. ↑ Synchronous database
  7. ↑ Wolfram Tichy, Liz-Anne Bawden et al .: rororo Filmlexikon. Volume 2: Films K - S (OT: The Oxford Companion to Film ). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-499-16229-6 , p. 541.
  8. ↑ Michael Hanisch: Western: The development of a film genre. Henschelverlag Art and Society , Berlin 1984, p. 247f.
  9. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 231/1952.
  10. ^ Red River. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 14, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  11. ↑ Enno Patalas, Filmkritik 3/1965, p. 133, ISSN  0015-1572