Instead, he wanted to film the Ireland-set romantic comedy-drama film The Quiet Man with Wayne and Maureen OHara, but Herbert Yates, the studio president of Republic Pictures, insisted that Ford first make Rio Grande with the same pairing of Wayne and OHara because he thought the script of The Quiet Man was weak and that the story was of little general interest.Cooper John Ford Screenplay by James Kevin McGuinness Based on Mission With No Record 1947 story Saturday Evening Post by James Warner Bellah Starring.Colonel Yorke 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.
Harry Majors Templeton The Denver And Rio Grande Movie Is SetThe action of the movie is set in the summer of 1879 (fifteen years after the Shenandoah ).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 officers 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 soldierto which the colonel somewhat reluctantly agrees. By his willingness to undergo any test and trial, Jeff 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. During the Civil War, Yorke had been forced by circumstances to burn Bridesdale, his wifes 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 commanders signature is required to discharge him, but his own is needed, as well, and he chooses to stay in the Army. The tension brought about in the struggle over their sons future (and possibly the attentions shown to her by Yorkes junior officers) rekindles the romance the couple once felt for each other. Many of them are killed by the awakened troopers, but they succeed in freeing their leader, who had been captured at the start of the movie. Confined to the post hospital, with the connivance of the regimental surgeon ( Chill Wills ) and Sergeant Major Quincannon, he breaks jail, steals Colonel Yorkes horse, and goes on the run, intending to stay away until the marshals head back to Texas. Carrol Naish ), now Commanding General of the Military Division of the Missouri, the headquarters responsible for pacifying the Great Plains. Sheridan has decided to order Yorke to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of the Apaches and kill them all, an action with serious political implications, since it violates the sovereignty of another nation. Sheridan, in quiet acknowledgment of what he is asking Yorke to risk, promises that if it comes to that, the members of the court will be the men who rode down the Shenandoah with us during the Civil War. Bliss for safety ironic in that the fort was named for a famous mathematician, William Wallace Smith Bliss, and it was failing mathematics that caused Jefferson Yorke to flunk out of West Point has been captured by the Apaches. Tyree trails the Apaches to their hideout in Mexico, and then rejoins his regiment with the information and a plan to rescue the children. After permitting three troopersTyree, Boone, and Jeffto infiltrate the ruined church in the Mexican village where the Indians have taken the children, Yorke leads his regiment in an all-out attack. The cavalrymen rescue all of the children unharmed, though Colonel Yorke is wounded by an arrow that he orders Jeff to remove. He is taken back to the fort by his victorious troops, where Kathleen meets him and holds his hand as he is carried on a travois into the post. At the ceremony, Trooper Tyree is given a furlough to continue his run from the law when one of the Texas marshals reappears, stealing General Sheridans horse for the purpose. As the troops pass in review (with the regimental band playing Dixie at the Generals request to please Mrs. Yorke), the movie closes.
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