Red River
(Blu Ray) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

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

Features: includes the original theatrical version and pre-release versions of the film; interview from 2014 with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions; interview from 2014 with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River; interview from 2014 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; theatrical trailer.

John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr., Coleen Gray, John Ireland.

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matt Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

MPAA rating: Not rated.