" It is a terrifying, spellbinding moment for Elliott as the alien moves forward and then inches closer and closer to touch him with two elongated fingers.Red Riverwas Howard Hawks"" first western, a story often compared o its parallel epic on the high seas,Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).Charlie left to find a corkscrew to open the stolen wine bottle.In a moment of complete self-revelation, Miss Tate told Will the "truth" about her past history, as they kissed each other (although at first he thought she was joking):"I""m not who you think I am.He crash-landed in the Washington, DC area (it resembled his home planet of Earth in the past?), in the Mall""s reflecting pool, and came to rest on the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial.