Red River [Criterion Collection]

Red River [Criterion Collection]

Director: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne
John Wayne
, Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
, Joanne Dru
Joanne Dru
, Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan
Howard Hawks
Red River [Criterion Collection]

Red River [Criterion Collection]

Director: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne
John Wayne
, Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
, Joanne Dru
Joanne Dru
, Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan
Howard Hawks

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Overview

John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces him to abandon Fen (Colleen Gray), his fiancee -- and when she is killed in an Indian raid a short time later, it taints any good that Dunson might find in the future he carves out for himself, destroying any joy he might derive from life. The sole survivor of the raid is Matthew Garth (Mickey Kuhn), a young orphan who is unusually handy with a gun for one his age -- and already knows how to channel his grief and horror at what he's seen, as much as Dunson does. Dunson informally adopts Matt as his son, and over the next 14 years he builds up one of the largest ranches in the entire state of Texas. And all of it is worth nothing, a result of the economic ruin wrought on the state in the aftermath of the Civil War. Matthew (Montgomery Clift), now back from the war and doing some of his own adventuring, finds a darker, more taciturn Dunson than he's ever known -- as Groot tells it, he's afraid because he just doesn't know how to fight the threats he now faces. With Matthew now returned, Dunson decides to move his herd, nearly 10,000 head of cattle, to Missouri, where there is a market for beef, over 1000 miles away through territory controlled by border gangs hundreds of men strong that have stopped every cattle drive up to now, and Indians who have picked off what the gangs missed. Dunson drives his men as hard as he does himself, relentlessly, till even some of his best hands break under the strain -- and he's not above killing anyone who challenges his authority on the drive. He's able to hold them in line as long as Matthew backs him up, and he does until Dunson, exhausted and worn down by lack of sleep, finally goes too far. Matthew steps in, backed by laconic, smirking gunman Cherry Valance (John Ireland) and most of the rest of the men and takes the herd from Dunson. Leaving his father and mentor behind, he heads the herd toward Kansas, where -- so the men are told -- there's a new railroad. Along the way, he meets Tess Millay (Joanne Dru), a card-dealer who falls in love with the young man. But he has to finish the drive and leaves her behind, much as Dunson left Fen. And they all know that Dunson is coming after Matthew to kill him.

Product Details

Release Date: 05/29/2018
UPC: 0715515119719
Original Release: 1948
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Language: English
Sales rank: 3,988

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
John Wayne Thomas Dunson
Montgomery Clift Matthew Garth
Joanne Dru Tess Millay
Walter Brennan Groot
Coleen Gray Fen
John Ireland Cherry
Noah Beery Jr. Buster McGee
Harry Carey Mr. Millville
Harry Carey Jr. Dan Latimer
Paul Fix Teeler Yacy
Mickey Kuhn Matt as a Boy
Chief Yowlachie Quo
Ivan Parry Bunk Kenneally
Ray Hyke Walt Jergens
Hank Worden Simms
Dan White Laredo
Paul Fierro Fernandez
William Self Wounded Wrangler
Hal Taliaferro Old Leather
Tom Tyler A Quitter
Lane Chandler Colonel
Glenn Strange Naylor
Shelley Winters Dance-Hall Girl
Lee Phelps Gambler
George Lloyd Gambler
Wally Wales Actor
Clift Montgomery Actor,Drover at Meeting
Guy Wilkerson Actor
Ray Spiker Actor
Davison Clark Mr. Meeker
Harry Cording Gambler
Richard Farnsworth Dunston Rider
Pierce Lyden Colonel's Trail Boss
Frank Meredith Train Engineer
John Merton Settler
Bill Self Wounded Wrangler
Noah Beery Actor
Dimitri Tiomkin Composer

Technical Credits
Howard Hawks Director,Producer
Borden Chase Screenwriter
Charles Schnee Screenwriter
Don Steward Special Effects
Charles K. Feldman Executive Producer
Richard DeWeese Sound Effects
Larry Gannon Sound Effects
Earl Crain Jr. Sound Effects
Jack Gardiner Sound Effects
Slim Houghton Sound Effects
Jack Gardner Sound Effects
Jack Williams Stunts
Richard DeWeese Sound/Sound Designer
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