Review of Rio Grande (1950) by Xavi P — 23 Jun 2008

I've been trying to watch a lot of John Ford movies lately, he's an awesome director despite some political stupidity. This film is the third in the so called Cavalry trilogy, and I think clearly the worst of the three.

This isn't the worst insult, in reality this isn't that bad, just very mediocre. The film takes way to long to get going, there's a lot of set up and it waste a lot of times with gratuitous singing by the soldiers.

This isn't a musical but there are a lot of unnecessary scenes with the cavalry members singing as jolly unifying act. By the time the actual story finally kicked in the movie had already lost me.

Minor Ford to be sure.