150 Greatest Movie Performances Of All Time

Part one (150-121)

By Total FilmDec 8th 2008

13. 139. Montgomery Clift - Matthew Garth, Red River (1948)

Mutiny On The Bounty on the Chisholm Trail, with Clift as Fletcher Christian to John Wayne’s Captain Bligh. Sensitively good-looking, Clift (in his debut) is a big contrast to the chunky, down-to-earth Wayne.

Hawks made him play up to it, getting him to “underplay his scenes with a pensive cool” (Variety critic Todd McCarthy). Clift is visibly learning on the job and making Wayne up his game, too.

Greatest Moment: Facing down Wayne when the boss wants to hang two deserters from the drive.

Also See: Robert E Lee Prewitt (From Here To Eternity), Dr John Cukrowicz (Suddenly, Last Summer).

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