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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 companion, Nadine Groot, leave St. Louis as part of a wagon train bound for the California Trail. Just north of Texas's northern border, Dunson announces that he will leave the wagon train and venture south to establish his own ranch. The trail boss says it is unsafe as there are Indians around and he needs a good gunman like Dunson with the train. Dunson tells his love interest, Fen, to stay with the wagons until he sends for her. He gives her 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 cattle brand chisholm trail chuckwagon chuckwagons civil war dance hall girl drive drover droving follow help history of texas indian indian attack kill lone survivor love interest making peace morning move native americans in the united states near miss red river of the south rio grande river shoot sole survivor st. louis wagon train wait want wound young man |
| 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 |