Rio Bravo (BD) "Lord Voldemort" Wealthy James Apperson (John Gilbert)

Wealthy James Apperson (John Gilbert) deploys as a soldier in World War I France and grows from a naive kid into a battle-hardened veteran as he and his two buddies are paraded toward the front

Ladd revisits the Western genre he made his own with his iconic title performance in Shane

The story revolves around a war-surplus racket operated from an island off the Central American coast

But the superliner Poseidon has one last secret to reveal

Rio Bravo (BD) "Lord Voldemort" Wealthy James Apperson (John Gilbert)On one side is an army of gunmen dead set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and two deputies: a recovering drunkard and a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are a trigger happy youth and a woman with a past and her eye on Chance. Director Howard Hawks lifted the Western to new heights with Red River. Capturing the legendary West with a stellar cast in peak form, he does it again here.