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.

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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.

Red River: Directed by Richard Michaels. With James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Gregory Harrison, Ray Walston. Thomas Dunson is a rancher at odds with his adopted son.

Stream Red River (1948) for free on Pluto TV. 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 everything to drive their herd across the treacherous Chisholm Trail.

Mar 1, 1998 · 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.

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.

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 perilous cattle drive.