RED RIVER1948
Red River
Movie Rating
MOVIE RATING
Average Rating: 4.0 (out of 5) (116 votes cast)
Source of Film
SOURCE OF FILM
Borden Chase (1900-1971) started out as a driver for New York City gangster Frankie Yale. But when his memoir about working in a digging crew for the Holland Tunnel was made into a 1935 movie, he changed his name, moved to Hollywood and became a writer.
His short story Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946. It became his 16th film and the only one for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
Producer Detail
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR DETAIL
- Howard Hawks
- Douglas Fairbanks Pictures
- (1917)
- Marshall Neilan Productions
- (1920-1921)
- Famous Players-Lasky
- (1923-1925)
- Fox Film
- (1926-1929)
- independent director
- (1930-1970)
Film Run-time and Synopsis
RUNTIME & SYNOPSIS
2 hours, 7 minutes
A Texas cattle rancher, broke from the loss of his market after the Civil War, decides to make a desperate attempt to drive his cattle over a thousand miles to the end of the rail lines in Missouri. John Wayne and Montgomery Clift star in this classic directed by Howard Hawks.
Film Comments
FILM COMMENTS
Film Awards
FILM AWARDS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
OSCAR NOMINEE
Writing (Motion Picture Story)- Borden Chase
- Film Editing
- Christian Nyby
MPAA Rating
MPAA RATING
No rating
Box Office Ranking
BOX OFFICE RANKING
- 1948 Domestic Box Office Rank: #1[1]
Theatrical Revenues
GROSS
- (Adjusted Gross in $millions)
- Domestic Theatrical Release: $264[1]
A Blu-ray/DVD of the original theatrical version was released by Criterion in 2014.