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River of No Return is a 1954 American Western 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.
- $2.1 million
- Stanley Rubin
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. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
- Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco
- 3
- 3 min
Synopsis. In 1875, the Northwest is filled with gold prospectors, and tent cities are overflowing with the saloon keepers, gamblers and entertainers who hope to profit from them. One day, a taciturn stranger rides into a tent city, where he looks for a nine-year-old boy, whom he had sent there from Illinois.
After serving a prison sentence, farmer Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) returns to his 19th-century Pacific Northwest gold rush town and retrieves his adolescent son, Mark (Tommy Rettig). Meanwhile,...
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- Otto Preminger
- TV-PG
- Robert Mitchum
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Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum), who recently has been released from prison after serving time for killing a man while defending another one. He arrives in a tent city in search of his ten-year-old son Mark (Tommy Rettig).
Jul 8, 2022 · Mark Franklin July 8, 2022 1950s. Robert Mitchum is Matt Calder, a man looking forward to a reunion with his son Mark (Tommy Retig) after years of separation. Turns out the trading post where Mark was dropped off has turned into a wild-and-wooly mining camp. Someone found gold.