

Red River
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 tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $9M
- Language
- English
- texas
- kansas, usa
- cattle drive
- revenge
- black and white
- cattle
- adopted child
- cattle empire
- 1850s
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTexas, Oklahoma and Kansas25 Aug 1948
- Theatrical17 Sept 1948
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical (limited)G1 Apr 1949
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival21 Jun 1970
CanadaCA
- Theatrical11 Oct 1948
- PhysicalDVD31 Jan 2006
AustriaAT
- Theatrical125 Oct 1951
BrazilBR
- Physical12DVD1 Jun 2000
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP10 Aug 1949
- TheatricalTPRe-release30 Mar 2005
- TheatricalTPRe-release (Restored Version)17 Jan 2018
- PremiereLumière Film Festival11 Oct 2020
- TVTPCiné+ Classic6 Oct 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany9 Feb 1951
- TVWest Germany3 Dec 1968
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG17 Jun 1949
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1817 Feb 1949
- PhysicalDVD8 Jul 2003
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/127 Feb 1950
- Theatrical (limited)M/12Lisboa, Cinemateca Portuguesa10 Jan 2025
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1525 Sept 1952
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Red River was released on 17 September 1948.
Audience reviews
2- J10/10
John Chard
5/29/2019
Bury those quitters! Tom Dunson is a self made cattle baron, he will do what ever it takes to protect the life he has made for himself. The constant fall in the value of livestock means that Tom, and his adopted son Matthew, must drive the gathered herd through the perilous Chisholm Trail, and then hope to get good value for the beef. With their assembled group of hands they head off North, but many problems will …
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
7/9/2022
Perhaps not a film you'd expect to work given the stars, but John Wayne and Monty Clift do manage to convey a sense of a repectful, but loving relationship - something I don't recall ever seeing before (or since) in a Wayne film towards another man. Hawks takes us on a dirty, unrelenting cattle drive and we can almost feel the strains and tension build as the younger man rails against the almost brutal control of his…
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