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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. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas rancher who ...
- Howard Hawks
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- August 26, 1948
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
The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to displace the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes from the Southern Plains, and forcibly relocate the tribes to reservations in Indian Territory. The war had several army columns crisscross the Texas Panhandle in an effort to locate, harass ...
- 1874–75
- United States victory; end of the Texas–Indian wars
- Southern Plains
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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 ...
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 ...
A radio version of Red River was aired in the late 40s with three of the original stars (John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru) and Jeff Chandler as Matt. The story was redone for television in 1988 with James Arness as Dunson, Bruce Boxleitner as Matt, Ray Walston as Groot and Gregory Harrison as Cherry.
In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey. Borden Chase. Screenplay, Story. Howard Hawks. Director.
