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 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Western drama |
| Written by | John Carpenter |
| Directed by | Mel Damski |
| Starring | Ricky Schroder Wilford Brimley Adrienne Barbeau Mills Watson |
| Music by | William Goldstein |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Mel Damski Merrill Karpf |
| Producer | Andrew Gottlieb |
| Cinematography | Robert M. Baldwin Jr. Gary B. Kibbe |
| Editor | Bernard Gribble |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Production companies | CBS Entertainment Productions Little Apple Productions |
| Distributor | CBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
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Cast
- Ricky Schroder as Jimmy "The Kid" Pearls
- Wilford Brimley as U.S. Marshal Winston Patrick Culler
- Adrienne Barbeau as Georgina
- Mills Watson as Jake
- John Ryan as Henry 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 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
- Trick and Treat McCarthy, Todd. Film Comment; New York Vol. 16, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 1980): 17-24.
- Schroder to shoot movie in Calgary: [Final Edition] Herald news services. Calgary Herald6 June 1990: D4.
External links
- Blood River at IMDb
- Blood River at the British Film Institute
- Blood River at the TCM Movie Database