Blood River (1991 film)

Blood River is a 1991 American made-for-television Western drama film starring Ricky Schroder, Wilford Brimley and Adrienne Barbeau. Based on an old script written by John Carpenter, the film originally premiered on CBS on March 17, 1991.

Blood River
GenreWestern drama
Written byJohn Carpenter
Directed byMel Damski
StarringRicky Schroder
Wilford Brimley
Adrienne Barbeau
Mills Watson
Music byWilliam Goldstein
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersMel Damski
Merrill Karpf
ProducerAndrew Gottlieb
CinematographyRobert M. Baldwin Jr.
Gary B. Kibbe
EditorBernard Gribble
Running time92 minutes
Production companiesCBS Entertainment Productions
Little Apple Productions
DistributorCBS
Release
Original networkCBS
Original release
  • March 17, 1991 (1991-03-17)

Cast

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 some 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, Alberta in June 1990.[2]

References

  1. Trick and Treat McCarthy, Todd. Film Comment; New York Vol. 16, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 1980): 17-24.
  2. Schroder to shoot movie in Calgary: [Final Edition] Herald news services. Calgary Herald6 June 1990: D4.


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