Bend of the River

Synopsis: Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland and as winter nears, it is necessary for McLyntock and Cole to rescue and deliver food and supplies being held in Portland by corrupt officials. On the trip back to the settlement, up river and over a mountain, Cole engineers a mutiny to divert the supplies to a gold mining camp for a handsome profit.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance

Director(s): Anthony Mann

Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson

Production: Universal


IMDB:: 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:: 100%

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: APPROVED
Year:: 1952
: 91 min
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Yah! Giddap!
Yah! Yah!
Glyn, have a biscuit.
Giddap there!
Hah! Giddap! Yah!
Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa! Whoa!
This is good.
Bring 'em up for a nightcap.
Hello, funny face. Hey.
Eat a good biscuit.
Mrs. Prentiss made it.
I make better.
I don't know how much better,
but I will say they're harder.
We got three hours left in
the day. Why don't we keep on?
We got water here.
May pay out by night.
Marjie promised to scrub out
a shirt for me. I did not!
I didn't promise.
I said maybe.
Bring it to the wagon. I'll
scrub it out, but I won't like it.
All right.
Why not?
Your mother used to scrub ten
shirts. Twenty! And pants too.
He hasn't got ten.
Have you?
No. One on, one off,
one in the wash.
Make your circle right near
to the stream there.
Think I'll ride out
for a couple of hours.
Might be an easy trail
past the hills.
Yah! Hah!
Yah! Hah! Hah!
You stole a horse. Anything
to say? Cut him loose!
Drop your guns.
All right, untie him.
Come on over there!
Move!
Ah!
About this horse, I really didn't
steal him, if that makes any difference.
It doesn't.
That's what I thought.
Why did you step in?
Well, I just
don't like hangin's.
That's a funny thing.
I don't either.
You ridin' south?
No, I'm goin' north.
Takin' some folks up in
the Columbia River country.
Farmers. Real nice folks.
Yeah, settlers, huh?
Is that your trade,
a guide?
No, not exactly.
I've been doin'
a lot of things.
I ran into these folks in Missouri. Thought
I might try my hand at farmin' or ranchin'...
if I can find me
some cattle.
They make good biscuits, these
folks. You're gonna like 'em.
I didn't catch your name,
or did you say it?
McLyntock.
Glyn McLyntock.
Glyn McLyntock?
From the Missouri country?
That's right.
You're gonna go farmin'?
Or ranchin', if I can
get me some cattle.
Come on, let's get
those biscuits.
I thought we're out of Cheyenne
country. What do ya make of that?
Shoshone. Real mean
when they wanna be.
Lately, they wanna be. They cut up some
trappers last week for their rifles.
Your people got any rifles? Mm-hmm.
They know how to use 'em? No.
How'd you get out of the Black Hills
country and the Big Horn? Lucky.
Glyn, you're late!
You better get some supper
before Marjie eats it all.
Got beans, tea
and biscuits.
Soft ones this time. Those
biscuits I was telling you about.
I see you found
yourself a friend.
I found him hangin' around.
Yeah.
I guess I missed your name,
or did you say it?
Cole.
Emerson Cole.
You'reJeremy Baile.
Glyn told me about you.
Are you, eh... you
Emerson Cole of Kansas way?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're gonna
like these biscuits.
Oh, Laura? Laura,
this is Emerson Cole here.
He's hungry. Give him
something to eat, will ya?
Say, I was thinking
about tomorrow.
We can save a lot of miles
if we go straight north.
Now, this place we're headed
for, 150 miles east from Portland.
That's right. That's just over
that tall mountain, isn't it?
That's right, just over. Well,
you say we should go here.
Uh-huh. I think we should go so.
You could go so,
but that mountain there...
that tall fella with
the white hair, he...
he's about
two miles high.
Got a lot of hills around him
one mile high...
so you climb and climb...
Just one mile? Is that too bad?
It isn't very good
when it's straight up.
You got the food
to think about.
By the time you get your grounds
cleared and houses built, it'd be winter.
If you haven't arranged to have the supplies
sent from Portland, what are you gonna eat?
It was just an idea. A lot
of people had the same idea.
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