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Red River
Licensor Information
MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Featuring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, John Ireland, Coleen Gray, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Harry Carey, Jr.
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.
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Red River
Year: 1948
Time: 127
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Red River
Prerelease VersionYear: 1948
Time: 133
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Alternate Edit, Interview, Audio Interview, Radio Program, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- New 2K digital restoration of the longer, prerelease version of Red River, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions
- New interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
- New interview with film scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about the western genre
- Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich
- Audio excerpts from a 1970 interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase
- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River from 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan
- Trailer
- An insert featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
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