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Red River
1948
RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth, a young boy orphaned by an .. Read more
| Starring | John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru |
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| Director | Howard Hawks |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Red River
RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth, a young boy orphaned by an Indian raid. Years later, Matthew (Montgomery Clift) returns from the Civil War and joins Dunson on a massive cattle drive north undertaken to avoid financial ruin. Stampedes and Indian attacks build tension, but it is Dunson's ironfisted leadership that causes the most problems, finally bringing the action to a boiling point that pits father against son. This bold canvas of the American frontier features stirring performances, including Clift in his first film and Wayne in one of his finest and most complex roles, stunning photography shot on location in Arizona, and a perfect balance of action, drama, romance, and comedy from one of Hollywood's greatest directors.
| Starring | John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Coleen Gray, Noah Beery, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr. |
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| Director | Howard Hawks |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 13 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1948 To Rent: DVD: 12 Jun 2000 |
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Hawks' leisurely adaptation of Borden Chase's story about the establishing of the Chisholm Trail by Wayne and Clift's... read more on Time Out
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Hyped as one of the best Westerns---it's not : but Duke "brings it thru" like a cattle drive:)
John Wayne, Walter Brennan , a host of splendid supporting stalwarts, and the direction of one of the greats in cinema....and the least you can expect is a 3.5... read more »
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Hyped as one of the best Westerns---it's not : but Duke "brings it thru" like a cattle drive:)
John Wayne, Walter Brennan , a host of splendid supporting stalwarts, and the direction of one of the greats in cinema....and the least you can expect is a 3.5... read more »
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Red River
Great movie showing a believable slice of what cattle driving may have been like.
Wayne's character is that of a flawed obsessive tyrant.
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Classic picture
This was Hollywood at it's most breathtaking. A story of a thousand mile cattle drive between Texas and Missouri. Mano a mano, high stakes and a big prize ... read more »
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Bad movies come in all shapes and sizes. This one is a doozy, a big, sweeping national epic that cost Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox an arm and a leg ($130 million) and which has been hobbled by its weak US showing. Of course it’s doing nicely down under, but the real question is: what will the rest of the world make of it? And that’s a bit of a head-scratcher. Writer-director Baz Luhrmann has enjoyed a Midas touch up to now, tapping popular acclaim with his so-called Read more
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RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth,...
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