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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
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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<
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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
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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
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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
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son, a stubborn and strong-willed
rancher who, with the aid of his foster
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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
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cost the committee $1800.
man, said, terview in a union publicati
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don't expect to get it all. I'll
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to the show
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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*?
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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
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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
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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
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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