Bend of the River

The heroes pass the same large, flat, rock formation twice during the trek with supplies.

When Laura Baile gets shot by an arrow, it is almost between her neck and her breast.

Soon later, it is high in her right shoulder.

Several shots of Mt.

Hood reveal jet contrails across the horizon.

Near the beginning of the film, while camped very close to the base of what is obviously Mt Hood, Jimmy Stewart's character says they are heading for a place 150 miles east of Portland.

Mt Hood is only 50 miles east from Portland.

Not only that, but they go through Portland on their way to their settlement.

At the base of Mt Hood, the settlers are attacked by a band of Indians that the trail guide declares are Shoshone.

Although there were Shoshone (Paiute) tribes in southeast Oregon, Mt Hood is in north central Oregon along the Washington border - too far to the northwest to have been on any Shoshone ground.

Near the middle of the movie, the wagons filled with supplies for the settlement have stopped to "noon" just above the tree line.

Just as Glyn rides up to get a cup of coffee, there are a series of what look like power poles or telephone lines at the left side of the screen on the horizon.

After Glyn blows out the lantern with his bare hand, he lowers the globe.

It should be very hot to touch.

The way Cole tries to gouge Glyn's eye changes between shots.

"Bend of the River" is the second of the five Westerns made by James Stewart with director Anthony Mann during the 1950s, and the first they made in colour. Here Stewart's character, Glyn McLyntock, is the scout for a wagon train of settlers heading to Oregon.

Película que nos muestra parte de lo que vivieron los colonos Norteamericanos en su afán de colonizar las praderas que pertenecieron a los indios, en un cruel despojo, pero esta vez los indios como en tantas otras películas no son la dificultad mayor, sino los propios inmigrantes que se centran en toda clase de luchas y el descubrimiento del oro como una nefasta circunstancia que cambia las almas de los hombres. La película tiene unas excelente tomas y manejo de cámaras, también la actuación de James Stewart es notable, el guión tiene apartes muy buenos, pero tiene algunas escenas muy mal logradas, como las de los tiroteos y otras que le disminuyen mucho su calificación.

I have a thing for westerns. I think it appeals to my inner child more than any other genre except maybe sci-fi because it's set on the "frontier," or what was the frontier of the American west, which means unexplored terrain, wide open spaces, sun and adventure.

Jimmy Stewart and Arthur Kennedy play Glyn McLyntock and Emerson Cole, two friends with mysterious(and questionable) pasts who agree to guide a group of homesteaders from Missouri into Oregon. They make camp outside of Portland as winter arrives, so Glyn and Cole bring them supplies which they will need if they are to survive.

Very good movie with good action and characters. Many of these actors enjoyed long careers.

Despite having some impressive technical aspects for the time of it's release, 'Bend of The River' don't has that much of a coherent and catchy story. Still, it's pretty enjoyable, i've never seen a western with James Stewart before.

Bend of the River is one of the reasons 1950s westerns were generalized as boring. I fast-forwarded half and hour of it and didn't miss a thing.

While guiding a caravan from Missouri to Portland, in the Oregon territory, the former gunman and thief Glyn McLyntock (James Stewart) saves Emerson Cole (Arthur Cole) from hanging. They become friends and travel together guiding and protecting the pioneers, leaded by Jeremy Baile (Jay C, Flippen), to their settlement.

Entertaining but cliched and rather racist. Rock Hudson isn't given much to do and the only good bit of acting was Stewart's "You'll be seeing me" speech.