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A 1948 movie starring [[John Wayne]], the first [[The Western|Western]] directed by
In the prologue Tom Dunson (Wayne) and his sidekick Groot ([[Walter Brennan]]) set up a farm on the Red River in Texas. Dunson's lady love Fen is killed in an Indian attack on a wagon trek, but he picks up the sole survivor, Matt, and adopts him, using his cow as the first of germ of what is to become a giant cattle farm.
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After the arrival in Abilene, Matt succeeds in selling off the entire herd, but then has to face up with Tom Dunstan the following day. As Matt refuses to draw, Dunson can't bring himself to shoot him in cold blood and the showdown devolves into a fistfight, which is finally broken up by Tess. Says Dunston to Matt: "Why don't you marry the girl?"
Not to be confused with the [[Time Travel|time
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* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Cherry's morality was always a little shaky {{spoiler|until his [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end}}. And Mr. Dunson kept spiraling downward up until the very end.
* [[Camp Cook]]: Goot, though ''some'' may disagree.
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* [[Cattle Drive]]: The main focus of the film.
* [[Cool Train]]
* [[Fastest Gun in the West]]: Cherry wants to go toe to toe with Matt, to see who's the best. ▼
* I'll Kill You!: Dunson tells Matt this after the mutiny.▼
* [[The Gunslinger]]▼
▲* [[I'll Kill You!]]: Dunson tells Matt this after the mutiny.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The bracelet that Tom Dunson gives to Fen and later on Matt gives to Tess.
* [[The Mutiny]]: ''Red River'' has been described as "''[[Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' on the prairie". ▼
▲* [[The Gunslinger]]
* [[The Narrator]]: Groot.▼
▲* [[Fastest Gun in the West]]: Cherry wants to go toe to toe with Matt, to see who's the best.
* [[Rancher]] Tom Dunson.
* [[Retired Gunfighter]]
▲* [[The Mutiny]]: ''Red River'' has been described as "''[[Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' on the prairie".
▲* [[The Narrator]]: Groot.
* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: {{spoiler|subverted}}
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Tom Dunson.
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[[Category:Roger Ebert Great Movies List]]
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Index of Film Westerns]]▼
[[Category:Films of the 1940s]]
[[Category:The Forties]]
[[Category:Red River]]
[[Category:The Criterion Collection]]
[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]
[[Category:Films With Recuts]]
[[Category:Film]]
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