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.

Red River: Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson. With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan. Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

An orphaned boy named Matthew Garth (played as a boy by Mickey Kuhn) wanders into Dunson and Groot. He is the sole survivor of the wagon train, and Dunson adopts him. Dunson, Groot, and Matt enter Texas by crossing the Red River. They …

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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 …

Russell Harlan’s cinematography finds classical compositions in the drive, arrangements of men, sky and trees, and then in the famous stampede scene he shows a river of cattle flowing down a hill.

Based on the serial novel The Chisholm Trail by Borden Chase in The Saturday Evening Post (7 Dec 1946--11 Jan 1947). A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a …

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.

Headstrong Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot (Walter Brennan), and his protégé, Matt Garth (Montgomery...