Rio Grande

The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote Army outpost along the Mexican border faced with two crises: marauding bands of Apaches from across the river and the arrival of estranged wife Maureen O'Hara and his son, new recruit Claude Jarman, Jr. With Victor McLaglen, Chill Wills. 105 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; "making of" documentary; theatrical trailer.