Red River
Big as the Men Who Faced This Challenge! Bold as the Women Who Loved Them!
Big as the Men Who Faced This Challenge! Bold as the Women Who Loved ...
Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
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1948
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Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
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Rated:
Passed
Runtime:
133 min
Release date:
26 Aug 1948
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$3,000,000
Revenue:
$9,012,000
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
The staging of physical conflict is deadly, equalling anything yet seen on the screen.
– ,
Variety,
13 May 2008
fresh:
It's a sign of the movie's complexity that John Wayne, often typecast, is given a tortured, conflicted character to play.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Even despite a big let-down, which fortunately comes near the end, it stands sixteen hands above the level of routine horse opera these days. So strap on your trusty six-shooters and race to the wind-swept Capitol, you lovers of good old Western fiction.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Immaculately shot by Russell Harlan, perfectly performed by a host of Hawks regulars, and shot through with dark comedy, it's probably the finest Western of the '40s.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006