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Red River |  | Directors: Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 2440
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD906042D
ISBN: 6304696612
UPC: 027616604224
EAN: 9786304696613
ASIN: 6304696612
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1948
Release Date: November 19, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This saga of saddle-sore cowboys driving cattle over the chisholm trail stars john wayne as a cattle king whose single mindedness turns him into a cold-blooded executioner. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: John Wayne Montgomery Clift Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Howard Hawks
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Any short list of the all-time greatest Westerns is bound to include this 1948 Howard Hawks classic about an epic cattle drive. Red River features one of John Wayne's greatest performances. Like his Ethan Edwards in John Ford's 1956 masterpiece The Searchers, the Duke plays an isolated and unsympathetic man who is possessed by bitterness. Wayne is Texas rancher Tom Dunson, who adopts a young boy orphaned in an Indian massacre. That boy, Matthew Garth (played as an adult by Montgomery Clift in his screen debut), becomes Dunson's assistant and heir apparent--until Dunson's temper gets out of control during a long cattle drive and Matt intervenes to stop him. From that moment on, Dunson swears he will kill Matt. Red River has everything a great Western ought to have: a sweeping sense of history, spectacular landscapes, stampedes, gunfights, Indian attacks, and, of course, Walter Brennan as Dunson's crusty old cook and comic sidekick, Nadine Groot. As a special bonus, the film also features the legendary Harry Carey (upon whom Wayne would base some of his gestures in The Searchers) and his son Harry Carey Jr., who became a fixture in Ford and Hawks Westerns. Red River is essential for anyone who loves Westerns, or movies in general. This one's a real beaut. --Jim Emerson
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 92
 JOHN WAYNE FAN September 6, 2010
LESTER
THIS ALLOWED THE DUKE TO EXPAINED HIS RANGE BY SHOWING HE COULD BE YHE HEAVY ABS WELL AS THE THE HERO HE ALMOST ALWAYS PLAYS
Taking a desperate chance August 20, 2010
Chrijeff (Scranton, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Wayne was 41 when he made this movie and turns in one of his most powerful performances as the mostly unsympathetic yet ultimately comprehensible Tom Dunson, whose age throughout most of the film is probably somewhere around 55. Going west with a wagon train in 1850, Dunson--who is presumably a veteran, since he wears Cavalry trousers--leaves it, and his beloved Fen (Colleen Gray), to make a home in Texas, just in time to escape the Indian attack that destroys the rest of the outfit. With his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), he picks up a 14-year-old boy, Matt Garth (Mickey Kuhn), who has been orphaned by the Indians, and establishes the "Red River D" brand near the Rio Grande. 15 years later, he's built up one of the biggest spreads in Texas, but in the aftermath of the Civil War, like all the rest of the state, he's broke, and takes a desperate chance on a vast cattle drive to Sedalia, Mo. His obsession soon alienates his crew, and Matt (Montgomery Clift) finds he can't ignore the man's vagaries despite his deep respect for him. The break comes when they learn of a purported new trail town called Abilene which, if they can reach it, will keep them out of the clutches of the border bandits who infest Sedalia's vicinity. But Dunson knows Sedalia is there and isn't so sure about Abilene. Matt finds himself with no alternative but a mutiny and the takeover of the herd, even though he knows that a thwarted Dunson, if left alive, will do his best to catch up and kill him.
Like most Golden Age Western movies, this one somewhat mangles history--Texas made no drives north at all in 1865 (most of her sons didn't return from wartime service till well into the summer), and Abilene didn't exist till '67; if the script had set the story in the latter year, given Dunson a drive to Sedalia the previous season in which he lost much of his herd (as did many Texas cowmen that year), and then introduced Abilene as an alternative, it would have made just as good a story and more accurate reality. But the conflict between Dunson and Matt, the perils of the drive, and the wonderful crew, including Noah Beery, Jr., as Buster McGee, Harry Carey, Jr., as Dan Latimer (his father, Harry Sr., also appears as an Abilene cattle buyer), Chief Yowlachie as cook's assistant Quo, Hank Worden as Simms Reeves, Paul Fix as Teeler Yacey, and John Ireland as the young gunman Cherry Valance, make up for the inaccuracies, which are really minor compared to those of some other films of the era. Critically acclaimed from its first appearance, this is one of Wayne's and director Howard Hawks's best and belongs in every Western fan's collection.
A Classic Western with the Duke and Clift August 14, 2010
Deborah L. Botte
"Red River" is an epic western that features John Wayne and Montgomery Clift at their best. It's sort of a "Mutiny on the Trail" with the Duke in one of his darkest, most fully rounded portrayals. A great film that deserves a full restoration for DVD.
 made for TV slop August 11, 2010
S. Dee
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Amazon is dishonest to put a clip of John Wayne's "Red River" under the Video on Demand "Red River" which stars James Arness, not John Wayne. I want my money back!!!
Billed as a psycological western. I don't particularly care for movies in which July 12, 2010
JOHN GODFREY (Milwaukee ,WI USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
John Wayne plays an ass----. Maybe it just gives his typical character too many facets. He is Tom a cattle rancher who adopts as his own Matt played later as the boy grown up by Montgomery Clift. Tom becomes a ruthless cattle baron. Matt is starting to chafe under Tom's heavy handed control. He wants his own herd & own brand. Tom won't hear of it. Conflict ensues & it gets ugly.
I haven't read all 80 something reviews, but somewhere it might have been mentioned that this was John Kennedy's favorite movie. Interesting in that in his own real life he had a love-hate relationship with his own father, Joe sr. His father was rather domineering, desiring to control every aspect of JFK's life, & the future president hated it. So similar to the characters on the screen
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