We're seeing red! Kick up your boots and enjoy the John Wayne Birthday Celebration in style at the Iowa Theater's presentation of a live presentation by actor, musician and poet Red Steagall, followed by a screening of the John Wayne classic Red River (1948), directed by Howard Hawks.
About Red Steagall
The entertainment career of Red Steagall has covered a period of over 45 years and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, to South America and to the Far East. He has performed for heads of state including a special party for Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1983, plus three overseas tours to the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, Australia, and South America. As a native Texan, Red enjoyed a career in Agricultural Chemistry after graduating from West Texas A&M University. He then spent eight years as a music industry executive in Hollywood, California and has spent the last thirty-seven years as a recording artist, songwriter, and television and motion picture personality. He currently ranches outside of Fort Worth, Texas where in addition to his entertainment activites, he is involved in numerous horse related activities.
About Red River
Headstrong Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful hand, Groot (Walter Brennan), and his protege, Matt Garth (Montgomery Clift), an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey. NR / 2 hr, 13 min