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Rio Grande is a 1950 American romantic Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It is the third installment of Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", following two RKO Pictures releases: Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). Wayne plays the lead in all three films, as Captain Kirby York in Fort Apache, then as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and finally…
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Grand cinema masters, particularly those who honed their formidable skills during Hollywood’s formative decades, were consummate professionals capable of delivering potent, polished cinema even when personal enthusiasm waned. His 1950 Western *Rio Grande*, frequently dismissed as the weakest link in his revered Cavalry Trilogy, nonetheless emerges as a structurally sound, visually arresting work that continues to sa…More
