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  1. 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. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas rancher who ...

    • August 26, 1948
  2. 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.

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    • Drama, Western
    • Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
    • 1948-09-17
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  4. Mar 1, 1998 · And “Red River” is one of the greatest of all Westerns when it stays with its central story about an older man and a younger one, and the first cattle drive down the Chisholm Trail. It is only in its few scenes involving women that it goes wrong. Advertisement. The film's hero and villain is Tom Dunson (Wayne), who heads West with a wagon ...

  5. Red River, American western film, released in 1948, that is widely considered director Howard Hawks ’s most-enduring movie. The classic epic has been described as a western version of the film Mutiny on the Bounty. Tom Dunson (played by John Wayne) is a young man with dreams of establishing his own cattle ranch.

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  6. 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. He decides he wants to break away from the wagon train and go find a place to start a ranch of his own.

  7. Red River (1948) Red River (1948) is a classic and complex western (and considered by many critics to be one of the ten best westerns ever made). It is a sweeping, epic story about a cattle drive (historically based on the opening of the Chisholm Trail in 1867) and a film of rivalry and rebellion, spanning a time period of fifteen years. Red ...

  8. Jul 1, 2014 · Rated. Unrated. Runtime. 133 min. Release Date. 09/17/1948. Westerns often take well-known episodes of American history and build them up into iconographic films, but few are more tightly rooted in history and the experience of the West than Howard Hawks’ Red River. A tale of the original cowboys and their first monumental cattle drive along ...

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