Denver and Rio Grande is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film, directed by Byron Haskin and released by Paramount PicturesThe film is a dramatization of the building of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which was chartered in 1870It was filmed in the summer of 1951 on location on actual D&RG track (now the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad) near Durango, This is the final movie in John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy" following Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) All three movies star John Wayne Rio Grande is notable for being the very first teaming of Wayne with his most famous leading lady, Maureen O'Hara It is the only movie in which they costarred to be filmed in black & whiteAnd the officer shows no favoritism to the underaged recruit
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