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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.
Red River. 1948 · 2 hr 13 min. TV-PG. Western · Drama. Despite the risk involved, a self-made cattle baron and his son drive their herd over the famed Chisholm Trail to protect their livelihood. Subtitles: English. Starring: John Wayne Montgomery Clift Joanne Dru Walter Brennan Coleen Gray. Directed by: Howard Hawks Arthur Rosson.
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Mar 1, 1998 · Red River. Action. 133 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 1948. Roger Ebert. March 1, 1998. 7 min read. John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan in "Red River." When Peter Bogdanovich needed a movie to play as the final feature in the doomed small-town theater in “ The Last Picture Show,” he chose Howard Hawks’ “Red River” (1948).
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.
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 mut...
The next day as Tom and Groot break camp, a young boy, Matthew Garth, who has escaped the wagon train massacre, wanders toward them with his cow. Tom and Groot take the dazed boy with them, cross the Red River and head farther south until, near the Rio Grande, Tom finds an area he likes.
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 ...
Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy.
