Howard Hawks' monumental "Red River," told the story of the first cattle drive from deep Texas to Abilene, Kansas... Veteran Raoul Walsh superbly handles "The Tall Men" from San Antone, Texas to Mineral City, Montana, with simplicity, confidence and great sense of humor...
Ben Allison (Clark Gable) and his brother Clint (Cameron Mitchell) ride to the gold fields of Montana...
In town, Nathan Stark (Robert Ryan) proposes to Ben the chance to gain big money... He names Ben his trail boss, the one to drive 4,000 heads of cattle l,500 miles from San Antone, Texas to Montana...
On his way to San Antone, Ben rescues Nella Turner (Jane Russell) from Sioux attack, and falls in love with her...
After passing the night together, her ideas of dreaming 'high' struck with his, to settle down one day on a little ranch in his home country along the prairie of Dog Creek...
In San Antone, while preparing for the long journey, Nella transfers her care to Stark, a good connoisseur, a person with a taste, an ambitious rich businessman who has no interest in being a 'small' man...
Antagonism between Stark and the Allison brothers increased during the hazardous journey...
Gable portrays an honest man tied to a small dream who fights and loves everything in sight on both sides of the Rio Grande...
Russell appeared among the audience 'looking surly on a pile of straw' in "The Outlaw." Thirteen years later, she is allowed to enjoy a colorful 'prairie' tub-bath, to be called 'grandma' by the legendary 'King,' to sing: 'I want a tall man...'
Either hero or villain, Ryan manages to come up with excellent performances... He always proved to be a very fine actor... Here he plays the heavy double-crossing cattle baron, the man who admired Ben: 'There goes the man I ever respected. He's what every boy thinks he's going to be when he grows up, and wishes he had been when he's an old man.'
Cameron Mitchell appeared with Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark in "Garden of Evil." He played "The High Chaparral" in TV. He is fine as Gable's unstable, unbalanced brother...
Juan Garcia is excellent and quiet amusing as Luis, Ben's Mexican loyal friend... When Nella asked him why he loves Ben so much, he answered: 'Why man loves his home? Why I love my Mexico? I owe Señor Ben my life, Señorita.'
With great scenery, and filmed in the voluptuous rich landscape of Durango, Colorado, "The Tall Men" is loaded with action in big scale: Confrontation with the jay-hawkers who demand one dollar for every head before crossing the State line; spectacular 'run wild' stampede of the herd through the canyon where brave Sioux were waiting...
Ben Allison (Clark Gable) and his brother Clint (Cameron Mitchell) ride to the gold fields of Montana...
In town, Nathan Stark (Robert Ryan) proposes to Ben the chance to gain big money... He names Ben his trail boss, the one to drive 4,000 heads of cattle l,500 miles from San Antone, Texas to Montana...
On his way to San Antone, Ben rescues Nella Turner (Jane Russell) from Sioux attack, and falls in love with her...
After passing the night together, her ideas of dreaming 'high' struck with his, to settle down one day on a little ranch in his home country along the prairie of Dog Creek...
In San Antone, while preparing for the long journey, Nella transfers her care to Stark, a good connoisseur, a person with a taste, an ambitious rich businessman who has no interest in being a 'small' man...
Antagonism between Stark and the Allison brothers increased during the hazardous journey...
Gable portrays an honest man tied to a small dream who fights and loves everything in sight on both sides of the Rio Grande...
Russell appeared among the audience 'looking surly on a pile of straw' in "The Outlaw." Thirteen years later, she is allowed to enjoy a colorful 'prairie' tub-bath, to be called 'grandma' by the legendary 'King,' to sing: 'I want a tall man...'
Either hero or villain, Ryan manages to come up with excellent performances... He always proved to be a very fine actor... Here he plays the heavy double-crossing cattle baron, the man who admired Ben: 'There goes the man I ever respected. He's what every boy thinks he's going to be when he grows up, and wishes he had been when he's an old man.'
Cameron Mitchell appeared with Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark in "Garden of Evil." He played "The High Chaparral" in TV. He is fine as Gable's unstable, unbalanced brother...
Juan Garcia is excellent and quiet amusing as Luis, Ben's Mexican loyal friend... When Nella asked him why he loves Ben so much, he answered: 'Why man loves his home? Why I love my Mexico? I owe Señor Ben my life, Señorita.'
With great scenery, and filmed in the voluptuous rich landscape of Durango, Colorado, "The Tall Men" is loaded with action in big scale: Confrontation with the jay-hawkers who demand one dollar for every head before crossing the State line; spectacular 'run wild' stampede of the herd through the canyon where brave Sioux were waiting...