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Red River
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 initiated it (Wayne) and his adopted adult son (Clift).
Plot
In 1851, Thomas Dunson and his friend Nadine Groot leave St Louis on the California Trail. When they are just north of the Texas border, Dunson says he is going to leave the wagon train saying he will go south and start his ranch there. The trail boss says it isn't safe as there are Indians around and he needs a good gunman like Dunson with the train. Dunson's love interest Fen wants to join him but he tells her to stay with the wagons and he will send for her when he is properly settled. Before he and Groot leave, Dunson gives Fen his late mother's bracelet.
More details
| author | Borden Chase Charles Schnee |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Texas |
| director | Arthur Rosson Howard Hawks |
| editor | Christian Nyby |
| genre | drama western |
| keywords | abilene kansas american civil war attack california trail chisholm trail civil war dance hall girl drive follow help indian attack kill lone survivor love interest making peace morning moving on near miss red river of the south rio grande river shoot sole survivor wagon train want wound |
| musicBy | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Story |
| producer | Howard Hawks |
| productionCompany | Monterey Productions |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | Arizona California Mexico |
| theme | epic |