Red River Blu-ray

Release Year: 1948

Runtime: 133 min

Director: Howard Hawks

Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray

Studios: Monterey Productions, Charles K. Feldman Group

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.

Special Features:

2K digital restoration

2K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

2K digital restoration of the longer, prerelease version

2K digital restoration of the longer, prerelease version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

Interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich

Interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.

Interview with critic Molly Haskell

Interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River.

Interview with film scholar Lee Clark Mitchell

Interview with film scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about the western genre.

Audio excerpts

Audio excerpts from a conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich.

Audio excerpts

Audio excerpts from an interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase.

Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River

Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River from 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan.

Trailer

Trailer.

PLUS: An essay

PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks’s frequent editor Christian Nyby.

Technical Specifications:

• Black & White
• Monaural
• 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio