Western
American
1948 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 133 min
Texas, just after the Civil War. A rancher with a huge herd and no money decides to drive his cattle a thousand miles north to find a market, with his adopted son and a crew of hired hands. A large-scale outdoor Western built around character, authority and the cost of command.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining postwar Western, it joined the genre's epic scale to an adult interest in character, and helped open the way to the more psychological Westerns of the 1950s.
Watch with intention
Watch the film as a study of leadership: what the men around the central figure see in him, and what each one is willing to put up with.
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