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'jj^F^ John Wayne stars in possibly his best performance in "Red River.*' By CHUCK CROMER Entertainment Editor "Red River," one of the greatest westerns ever made, will be shown at 7 nn>) A.On ? A ? - ? - - emu 7.ou i#.in. nprn iy in uie Kussell House theatre. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, and Joanne Dru, and this 1948 classic (along with "Stagecoach" in 1939) set many of the precedents for westerns for the next 20 years and helped make the western a sophisticated and respected film genre. A BASIC THEME in Howard Hawks' films is the conflict between men and their physical surroundings, as in dividuals try to bring their environment under their personal control. In "Red River," this theme finds one of its most explicit and comprehensive treatments. John Wayne stars as Thomas DunCommitte< By GLENN RAWLS Gamecock Staff Writer They are responsible for visits by Tim< Bob Clampett, a Warner Brothers anim Adams, the distinguished photographer Marks, first American author to hav< censored before publication in America. THEY ARE THE Ideas and Issues com board responsible for securing speakers t use. Ed McCall, Ideas and Issues chair "Mainlv tuoVo a ...j ?v .v, c4 vuiiiuiuicc cuuceniu needs of bringing speakers to USC for th dealing with subjects nation-wide or ca Mainly I see us as a lecture-speaker mi The committee, McCall said, is o students. Meetings are at 7:30 p.m. T Russell House room 301. A student can voting member of the committee by atte meetings, McCall said. The committe< contains 12 members. The committee's most recent presei Timftthw 1 OQmr 1 4 - uvui jr, iiuiiiciiiiica I CICI'I CU IU HS of the drug revolution." Student reaction was mixed. "I THOUGHT HE was good on his su Call said. "You generally measure a spea somebody sucks, they (the audience) get ass. I thought it went over well beca 'Red Rivei nrntntvna f/ vr^vrt'j |JV/ JLV Western filmi will be show son, a stubborn and strong-willed rancher who, with the aid of his foster cAn r* it. ' ouu man virarui v.Montgomery Clift), carve out a cattle empire over fourteen years in a desolate, seemingly worthless part of Texas. Dunson seems to have accomplished his dream of controlling the land until his inability to profitably sell his cattle in Texas forces him to drive his herd to Missouri, an incredibly difficult task and one that has never been accomplished before. Seeking a realization of his dream, Dunson imposes intolerable hardshios on his men, causing some of them to desert, and eventually leading to Garth's mutiny and take over of the cattle drive. Even though Garth is acting as Dunson's surrogate, managing the cattle drive in his behalf, Dunson hunts his foster son with a vengeance that 3 sponsors s f "I've enfprtainoH othy Leary, speakers out of my ator, Ansel picked up their dn and Johnn e his book imittee, the stayed. If anything bother o lecture at he didn't talk pnmiuh ah? Leary's lecture on spac cost the committee $1800. man, said, terview in a union publicati d with the a bigger budget to accoi le students, speakers." mpus-wide. edium." "I've asked for a lot," Mc don't expect to get it all. I'll pen to all of it (his budget request) 'uesdays in i become a "I've been hasseled all nding three You've read The Gameco 3 Dresentlv back-and-forth ahnnf "u/hv speakers' and 'why don't we bureau.' To me this is duj itation was committee that the student the "father Ideas and Issues. to the show "What you need to do is fu the caliber speaker you're bject," Mc- expect to be entertained, an< ker, well, if speakers because we can't s up and haul them. I've entertained a lot < luse people ow?; pocket. I've picked up r,' ^ * t ' . * f |*ilTW .-5" *, * ^ y *' !i* "* _ ^-^pSf \.. X. ?-. *1 "* ^ \ The spectacular cattle dr highlights Red River, a west hostile environments thrive on. As critic Leonard Maltin wrote, "The ensuing dark plotting against and final conflict with Matt, the young man Dunson has raised, becomes inevitable, but the ambiguity of the result if Hawk's expression of the unity of the film's conflicts, denying simple resolution." John Wayne gave the best performance of his career up to that time as the rugged Dunson whose powerful ambition and domineering attitude made "Red River" and his character the Captain Bligh and "Mutiny on the Bounty" of the western. Hawks' deoiction of th*? r vUVUV UI1VC is one of the most gruelling and realistic ever presented on the silver screen. This was the first of many westerns that he was to make with John Wayne over the years and undoubtedly is his best. Walter Brennan, as usual, provides jpuaivci 11 "OUR Bl $8,000. That I a lot Of the get rat progi ' own pocket. I've the new fis< nner, whatever." $37,000." ivic^an sai -EdAAcCall broughthere year's comn The next s< s me about the program, is Phil Demi ut the 60s." theory behin e migration in the 1980s McCall stated in an in- "I met Phi on that he was requesting thought Libc nmodate "six big-name concept, and AM ? #* ?? \jki uiUCi UIIK "Phil is a i Call said, "but of course 1 pretty well. 1 be honest with you. A lot people are in was reaction. and this is d I year about speakers. DEMATT1 ck. There's a constant McCall sail isn't the union bringing seem to cross ! bring back the speakers Issues-studei )lication. If vou want a - ^ ? puai/l UICYV U s can get in, then that's committee's McCall sail nd that committee to get has, "for the talking about. Speakers objectives se 1 I've entertained a lot of And, McCa npnit m/wuni (n onJorlotn 1? mviavj w VIIIVA Ullll IU auiiic ICtlU >f the speakers out of my he said, shru their dinner, whatever. complaining. . . wn/u *#j nunaiu iianra. ern the comic relief in "Red River," as the toothless sidekick of Dunson, while Clift underplays his role of the devoted step son magnificently, signifying a long and promising career in Hollywood for the next decade. Time magazine wrote, "There is a constant illusion that you are watching an extraordinary effort to get cattle across a certain immense expanse of j:rr:?u _ ? - uuiicuu ana uireatening country, and that you are learning a lot about how such a job feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so much of themselves but because the whole success or failure of the attempt depends on these people. The greatest satisfaction of this picture is continuous and unobtrusive. It is the constancy with which all outdoors and all human endurance of it and effort to conquer it, keeps bulging on the screen full of honest and beautiful vitality, like a steady wind against a well trimmed sail." ictures JDGET THIS year for speakers was breaks down to about $600 a month. You rams for $600 a month. My request (for :al year) was in the neighborhood of d that which "big-name speakers" to be with that money will be decided bv next littee, headed by Faye Flowers, sheduled speaker from Ideas and Issues atteis, who will lecture on the political d the Libertarian party. il in a course here," McCall said, "and irtarianism was kind of a strange new that's mainly why I asked him to speak anism. good speaker, and he handles questions I expect a pretty good crowd. I think - A * ici caicu in new movemenis ana politics efinitely an informative talk." CIS WILL not be paid for his talk, d that student political interest does not i to campus politics, where an Ideas and it government "Meet the Candidates" nly 50 people. Attendance at most of the functions is usually 1000 to 1200. a ne leeis that, overall, his committee i money we have," accomplished the t for it when it was established. li is not distressed by negative reaction res. "You could get Jesus Christ here," gging, "and there'd still be somebody