Red River
Howard Hawks was known for his versatility in film genres, he had made screwball comedies (Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940)), romantic comedies (Twentieth Century (1934)), gangster films (Scarface: Shame of the Nation (1932)), detective noirs (The Big Sleep (1946)), adventure films (Only Angels Have Wings (1939)), and war films (The Dawn Patrol (1930)). By the mid-1940s, after two decades and nearly thirty films, Hawks set out to make his first Western.
When Hawks read…