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Red River [Blu-ray videorecording] / a film by Howard Hawks.

Criterion Collection, 2014.

Conflict of generations -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 709.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[Blu-ray videorecording] /

2 Blu-ray discs (127 min.) : Dolby digital mono sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the Saturday Evening Post story "The Chisholm Trail" by Borden Chase.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks ; new 2K digital restoration of the longer, prerelease version of Red River ; 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 Hawks and 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 ; PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 1990.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

MGM edition is in English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.

Produced and directed by Howard Hawks ; screenplay by Borden Chase and Charles Schnee.

John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan and Joanne Dru with Harry Carey, Sr., Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Noah Beery, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr. and Paul Fix.

"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 neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks's formidable direction."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Chase, Borden. Chisholm Trail.

Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977.

Wayne, John, 1907-1979.

Clift, Montgomery.

Brennan, Walter, 1894-1974.

Dru, Joanne, 1923-1996.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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