Red River Blu-Ray Criterion Edition Unbox: John Wayne Howard Hawks Masterpiece?

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#RedRiver ranks up very high in the favourite western category, cracks the top 3 of #JohnWayne movies and easily Number 1 Walter Brennan flick! Director Howard Hawks, a master at getting the most from The Duke, puts the viewer right in the middle of the action, so close you can smell the cattle! Criterion gives us a near perfect (I saw that hair in the gate) 2K transfer and solid audio as you come to expect from them, that defies the age of this film (1948). Includes the theatrical and prerelease versions of the film, the prerelease being the director preferred. The included interviews explain the reason between the versions which shockingly involve Howard Hughes.

the official by-line:
No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. In it, John Wayne found one of his greatest roles, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son—played by Montgomery Clift, in a breakout performance—reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri. The film is based on a novel that dramatizes the real-life late nineteenth-century expeditions along the Chisholm Trail, but Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masculinity that propel the myths of the American West. The unerringly macho Wayne and the neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks’s formidable direction.
Special Features
New 4K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks, with monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. 2K restoration of the longer version of Red River. New interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions. New interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River. New interview with western scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about western genre literature. Audio excerpts of a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich. Excerpts from a 1970 audio interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase, PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks’s longtime editor Christian Nyby; a new paperback edition of Chase’s original novel, previously out of print

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Nice unboxing! Thanks for the video. I have this edition and it’s a great one of an excellent western. The inclusion of that book is awesome. Enjoy it!