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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.
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- Drama, Western
- Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
- 1948-09-17
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The film's hero and villain is Tom Dunson (Wayne), who heads West with a wagon train in 1851 and then peels off for Texas to start a cattle ranch. He takes along only his wagon driver, Groot Nadine ( Walter Brennan ).
A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
- Howard Hawks, William Mcgarry, Arthur Rosson
- John Wayne
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 Montgomery Clift ...
- Thomas Dunson
With Dunson's lone bull and the young boy's single cow, they cross the Red River and travel many miles - all the way to the Rio Grande on their journey to the south. There, Tom appropriates all the land for his own, for a ranch as far as the eye can see.
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Synopsis. In 1851, Tom Dunson (John Wayne) and friend Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), join a wagon train in St. Louis (or near St. Louis), headed for California. After three weeks, they approach north Texas, where the land looks good to Tom.