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River of No Return is a 1954 American Western musical film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film Bicycle Thieves. [5]
River of No Return: Directed by Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco. With Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig. The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco
- 1954-05-21
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Somewhere in Northwestern 19th Century America, a widower named Matt (Mitchum) finishes a prison stint for murder and sets off in search of his nine-year-old son (Tommy Rettig). He finds the boy, Mark, in the care of a charming singer named Kay (Monroe) and takes him home to begin a life together. Meanwhile, Kay’s fiancé Harry (Rory Calhoun) cons a...
Let’s just get it out of the way right now: River of No Return is not a great film. It’s not a bad film by any means — there’s plenty here to cherish — but it’s certainly no masterpiece of the genre. This isn’t to say that it isn’t entirely worth your time. It is. That’s largely due to Monroe’s endlessly captivating presence, which rescues the film...
It’s Monroe, though, that truly deserves the top billing in River of No Return. It’s her that makes this picture as memorable as it is. Even if the character isn’t particularly well-written, considering that her motivations often feel aimless while good-natured, Monroe breathes life into the role. She walks around with her Rapunzelesque blonde hair...
Though being a fan of Marilyn Monroe and her effervescent charm certainly aids in enjoying River of No Return, it isn’t a requirement. The second-strongest element of the picture behind Monroe's performance is the lush, wide-framed cinemascope photography from Joseph LaShelle.The landscape of the American Northwest is captured in gorgeous technicol...
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A frontier farmer takes off with his son and a saloon singer after the man who stole his rifle and his horse in. (1954) began as an idea of writer Louis Lantz, who proposed an Old West variation on Vittorio De Sica's (1948), with the hero now a farmer who loses his horse (and also his gun).
The greed of a reckless gambler who has won a mining claim in a poker game forces three people, a farmer named Matt Calder, his son and the gambler's wife, Kay, into an adventure down the river and through the wilderness from which they may never return.
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