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Film Red River (1948)

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Ostensibly a Western about a domineering cattle-drive leader (John Wayne), Red River served as a stand-in for the whole of classical Hollywood in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show. It was a rose-tinted view, but a good indicator of the way Howard Hawks' film dominated the imagination of auteur critics. The central relationship between Wayne's grizzly bear and Montgomery Clift's young gun is a sterling example of the mixed messages behind Hawksian male camaraderie, but Red River is just as notable for Russell Harlan's majestic cinematography.

– Max Goldberg

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