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A Wyoming man heads for New Mexico to catch the men who sold rifles to the Apaches who in turn used them to slaughter his brother.

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In RIO GRANDE the last part of John Ford's classic Cavalry Trilogy John Wayne stars as Kirby York a colonel at an army outpost along the U.S.-Mexico border where the Apache are always a problem. When his son Jeff Claude Jarman Jr. whom he hasn't seen in more than a decade arrives at the fort after flunking out of West Point Yorke treats him coldly warning the young man not to expect preferential treatment which Jeff assures him he doesn't want. Yorke's ex-wife Kathleen Maureen O'Hara appears intending to persuade Jeff to leave the army. Yorke refuses to do the necessary paperwork to release his son a decision seconded by Jeff who has begun to adapt to army life--and before Kathleen can regroup for another attempt the fort is attacked by the Apache. The making of RIO GRANDE was mandated by producer Herbert Yates who would agree to finance the director's THE QUIET MAN only if Ford first made a Western as insurance with that film's proposed leading actors. Ford continues the series' realistic depiction of the ri

This shoot-'em-up revisionist Western traces the little-known legend of black cowboys in the Old West who participated in settling the frontier and played an unrecognized role in U.S. history. During the Spanish-American War a multiracial group of U.S. soldiers go on a dangerous mission under the orders of the despicable Colonel Graham who is white. They succeed returning with the booty from the battle only to find that Graham has betrayed them. After fighting Graham off the soldiers escape with their cache. Thus begins a chase through Cuba and back into the U.S. as the group struggles with the law the Ku Klux Klan and big business in an effort to protect the land and rights of African American settlers. Directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles POSSE also features terrific turns by the likes of Tiny Lister Tone Loc Pam Grier Isaac Hayes Nipsey Russell Aaron Neville Stephen Baldwin Billy Zane and more.

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