Red River
Red River
is a 1948 Western film giving a fictional account of the first
cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail.
The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the
management of the drive, between the Texas rancher who
initiated it (John Wayne) and his adopted adult son
(Montgomery Clift).
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FUN Trivia quiz.
1. Filmed in 1946 but held for release
for two years, in part due to legal problems with Howard
Hughes who claimed it was similar to his The Outlaw (1943).
2. John Wayne plays Thomas Dunson. He is
a stubborn man who wants nothing more than to start up a
successful cattle ranch in Texas. Shortly after he begins his
journey to Texas with his trail hand, Nadine Groot, Dunson
learns that his love interest, whom he had told to stay behind
with the wagon train with the understanding that he would send
for her later, was killed in an Indian attack. Who played
Nadine Groot?
- Walter Brennan
- George "Gabby" Hayes
- Chill Wills
3. Dunson and Groot press on, only to
chance on an orphaned boy named Matthew Garth, whom Dunson
effectively adopts. With only a couple head of cattle, Dunson
and the boy enter Texas by crossing the Red River and Dunson
proudly proclaims all the land about them as his own.
Montgomery Clift played the adult Matt. Who played Matt as a
boy?
- Mickey Kuhn
- Mickey Dolenz
- Kurt Russell
4. On the way to Abilene, Matt and his
men repulse an Indian attack on a wagon train. One of the
people they save is Tess Millay, who falls in love with Matt.
Who played Tess?
- Shirley Temple
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Joanne Dru
5. Who is reported to have said, "I
didn’t know the big son of a bitch could act!"?
- Ward Bond
- John Ford
- Thomas Mann
6. This is Montgomery Clift's debut
film, but because it was shelved for 2 years, the first film
the public saw of Clift was The Search (1948), which he was
Oscar-nominated for.
7. Who said, "We brought nothing
into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing
out."?
- Dan Latimer
- Mr. Melville
- Thomas Dunson
8. What is the Westerns runtime?
- 93 minutes
- 133 minutes
- 233 minutes
9. What state's locations were used in
the filming of Red River?
10. The film gives August 14, 1865 as
the completion of the first cattle drive on the Chisholm
Trail. However, the first cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail
started and finished in 1867, two years later.
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