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Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Howard Petrie
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bend of the River |
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Two cowboys with questionable backgrounds agree to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to a settlement in Oregon.
The settlers buy the last of the provisions in the mining town before beginning their journey.
The man that owns the town had promised those provisions to a mining camp in the mountains. He goes after the wagon train with a group of men. After a gunfight, the rich man and most of his men are dead.
Two miners meet the wagon train and offer them a hundred thousand dollars for the provisions, but the settlers refuse.
Some of the men and one of the cowboys beat up the other cowboy and hijack the wagon train to sell to the miners.
The beaten cowboy follows the train. He procures a gun from a man that stayed behind to kill him.
A girl in the train unties a horse and leaves it behind for the cowboy.
The cowboy catches up to the train and scares off most of the men.
The other cowboy had gone to the camp to get some miners to fight the settlers.
The settlers fight off the miners and the beaten cowboy beats up the other cowboy and kills him.
The settlers go on to deliver the provisions to their settlement.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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BEND OF THE RIVER is a western directed by Anthony Mann in 1952.
James Stewart, a former outlaw, is leading settlers from Missouri to Oregon. In Portland, the settlers pay in advance the food and the cattle they will need before winter and sail up the river. As the food hasn't arrived yet in october to the settlement, James Stewart comes back to Portland. There, he learns there that there is a gold rush to the mountains and that the food of the settlers is worth a hundred times more now. Stewart manages to sail up the river with the stock but is followed by Tom Hendricks, the food supplier, who has not given up the idea of making more money with the settlers's goods.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bend of the River |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 35%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 15%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- traveling across the west
- fighting bad business/family
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- cowboy
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- average build (man)
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- general circumstances
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Pacific NW
Forest?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- drowned
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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