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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.
An orphaned boy named Matthew Garth (played as a boy by Mickey Kuhn) wanders into Dunson and Groot. He is the sole survivor of the wagon train, and Dunson adopts him. Dunson, Groot, and Matt enter Texas by crossing the Red River. They settle in deep South Texas near the Rio Grande.
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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.
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).
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, in a breakout performance—reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri.
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.
Headstrong Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot (Walter Brennan), and his protégé, Matt Garth (Montgomery...
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Walter Brennan give stellar performances in Howard Hawks' epic masterpiece as a self-made cattle baron (Wayne) and his adopted son (Clift) risk everything to drive their herd across the treacherous Chisholm Trail. Stream Red River (1948) free and on-demand with Pluto TV.