CRITERION COLLECTIOIN: RED RIVER [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Classic; Drama; Western
• Plot: No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. 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 breakout performance—reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri. The film is based on a novel that dramatizes the real-life late nineteenth-century expeditions along the Chisholm Trail, but Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masculinity that propel the myths of the American West. The unerringly macho Wayne and the neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks's formidable direction.;
• Cast: John Wayne; Davison Clark; Lane Chandler; Hank Worden; Ray Hyke; Shelley Winters; Mickey Kuhn; Lee Phelps; Richard Farnsworth; Pierce Lyden; John Merton; Glenn Strange; Tom Tyler; William Self; Paul Fierro; Ivan Parry; Wally Wales; Harry Carey Jr.; Harry Cording; Dan White; George Lloyd; Montgomery Clift; Chief Yowlachie; Paul Fix; Noah Beery Jr.; John Ireland; Harry Carey; Walter Brennan; Joanne Dru; Coleen Gray; Howard Hawks; Arthur Rosson; Charles Schnee; Borden Chase; Russell Harlan; Christian Nyby; Dimitri Tiomkin; Richard DeWeese; John Datu
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Runtime: 2:13
• Company: United Artists Corporation, Monterey Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie