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 …

Red River: Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson. With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan. A cattle baron and his foster son argue on the Chisholm Trail.

Despite the risk involved, a self-made cattle baron and his son drive their herd over the famed Chisholm Trail to protect their livelihood.

John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Walter Brennan give stellar performances in Howard Hawks' epic masterpiece as a self-made cattle baron (Wayne) and his adopted son (Clift) risk …

Mar 1, 1998 · When Peter Bogdanovich needed a movie to play as the final feature in the doomed small-town theater in “ The Last Picture Show,” he chose Howard Hawks’ “Red River” (1948).

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Red River (1948) During a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, tensions flare between a set-in-his-ways rancher and his adopted son over the management of the drive.

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes …

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In it, John Wayne found one of his greatest roles, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son—played by Montgomery Clift, in a …