🎥 Rio Grande - 1950 - John Wayne - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

✅ The Story ...

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In the summer of 1879, "fifteen years after the Shenandoah", Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke (Wayne) is posted on the Texas frontier with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry Regiment to defend settlers against attacks by marauding Apaches. Yorke has just captured the Apache's leader.

He is under considerable pressure due to the Apaches using Mexico as a sanctuary from pursuit, and by a serious shortage of troops in his command.

Yorke's son (whom he has not seen in 15 years), Trooper Jefferson Yorke (Claude Jarman Jr.), is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment. He had flunked out of West Point, but immediately enlisted as a private in the Army.

In a private "father-son" meeting in the commanding officer's tent, Trooper Yorke informs his father that he does not expect, nor want, any special treatment because he is his son.

He asks that he be treated like any other soldier—to which the colonel agrees. By his willingness to undergo any test and trial, Jefferson is befriended by a pair of older recruits, Travis Tyree (Ben Johnson) (who is on the run from the law) and Daniel "Sandy" Boone (Harry Carey Jr.), who take him under their wings.

Two U.S. marshals from Texas arrive at the post with a warrant for Trooper Tyree's arrest on a manslaughter charge, but he hides behind the horses and the marshals leave without discovering him.

Yorke's estranged wife, Kathleen (Maureen O'Hara), arrives unexpectedly to take the underage Jefferson home by buying him out of his enlistment. During the Civil War, Yorke had been forced by circumstances to burn Bridesdale, his wife's plantation home in the Shenandoah Valley.

Sergeant Major Quincannon (Victor McLaglen), who put the torch to Bridesdale, is still with Yorke and is a constant reminder to Kathleen of the episode. In a showdown with his mother, Jeff refuses her attempt to buy him out of the Army by reminding her that not only the commander's signature is required to discharge him, but his own is needed, as well, and he chooses to stay in the Army.

The struggle over their son's future (and possibly the attentions shown to her by Yorke's junior officers) rekindles the romance the couple once felt for each other.

The Apaches attack the fort one night. Many of them are killed by the awakened troopers, but they succeed in freeing their leader.

The story unfolds ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : John Ford
Screenplay by : James Kevin McGuinness
Based on : Mission With No Record 1947 story Saturday Evening Post
by James Warner Bellah
Produced by : Merian C. Cooper and John Ford
Cinematography : Bert Glennon
Edited by : Jack Murray
Music by : Victor Young
Production Companies : Republic Pictures and Argosy Pictures
Distributed by : Republic Pictures
Release Date : November 15, 1950

✅ Cast :

John Wayne as Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke
Maureen O'Hara as Kathleen Yorke
Ben Johnson as Trooper Travis Tyree
Claude Jarman Jr. as Trooper Jefferson Yorke
Harry Carey Jr. as Trooper Daniel "Sandy" Boone
Chill Wills as Dr Wilkins, Regimental Surgeon
J. Carrol Naish as General Philip Sheridan
Victor McLaglen as Sergeant Major Quincannon
Grant Withers as Deputy Marshal
Sons of the Pioneers as the Regimental Singers
Peter Ortiz as Captain St. Jacques
Steve Pendleton as Captain Prescott
Karolyn Grimes as Margaret Mary
Alberto Morin as Mexican Lieutenant
Stan Jones as Sergeant
Fred Kennedy as Trooper Heinze

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_(1950_film)

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