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Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail.
Red River: Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson. With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan. Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
It is an outdoor movie (we never go inside the ranch house Dunson must have built), and when young Matt steps inside the cattle buyer's office in Abilene, he ducks, observing how long it's been since he was under a roof.
Red River (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Good Looking Gun Before the drive, rancher Dunson (John Wayne), his ward and partner Matt Garth (Montgomery Clift) and cook Groot (Walter Brennan), visiting with neighbor Meeker (Lane Chandler) and his new henchman Cherry (John Ireland), in Red River, 1948.
Red River. No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. In it, John Wayne found one of his greatest roles, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son—played by ...
Headstrong Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot (Walter Brennan), and his protégé, Matt Garth (Montgomery Clift), an ...
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This classic epic follows the first cattle drive over the famous Chisholm Trail with John Wayne as a cattle baron whose single-mindedness turns him into a cold-blooded executioner. 1,672 IMDb 7.8 2 h 12 min 1948. X-Ray 13+. Drama · Western · Edifying · Exciting.
