Blood River (1991 film)
Blood River is a 1991 American TV film. It was based on an old script by John Carpenter.
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Cast
- Wilford Brimley as Culler
- Ricky Schroder as Perls
- Adrienne Barbeau as Georgina
- Mills Watson as Jake
- John Ryan as Logan
- Henry Beckman as Sheriff Webber
- Dwight C. Mcfee as Squints
- Don S. Davis as Congressman Adams
- Jay Brazeau as Hotchner
Production
John Carpenter originally wrote the script in 1971 for John Wayne. Batjac, Wayne's company, read it in the mid 1970s and hired him to do a rewrite. He did but "never quite found out what was going on there. Maybe Wayne didn't want to do any more Westerns. I worked with Michael Wayne and Tom Kane, and they would do things like take out some of the harder action stuff, making it easier on him."[1]
In the script the John Wayne character was an old riverboat rat who was really a US Marshall searching for soe criminals. He met up with another man and they went down the river, like Huckleberry Finn.[1]
"I'd love to have had Hawks direct it but Hawks was too old," said Carpenter. "I would love to have directed it, but I don't think they would have let me. "[1]
The film was eventually shot in Calgary in June 1990.[2]
References
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- Blood River at IMDB
- Blood River at BFI
- Blood River at TCMDBTemplate:Tv-film-stuv
