Reckless, Roaring, Adventure of the Great Northwest Gold Rush Days!
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- John Chardon TMDB · Feb 20197/10
What are you chasing Calder? After a stint in jail, Matt Calder is reunited with his son Mark and sets both of them up at a riverside lodge. One day he helps aid a couple who are struggling with their raft down the river. It turns out to be a dubious gambler named Harry Weston and his saloon singer girlfriend, Kay, whom both Matt and Mark have already been acquainted with. Turns out that Harry is in a rush to register his mining claim that he has just won, and sensing his journey will be considerably quicker and safer on horseback, steals, after a fight, Matt's rifle and horse. Agreeing to let Kay stay behind with the Calder's, Weston sets off. Once roused and ready to travel, Matt, aware that an Indian attack on their remote home is imminent, sets off in pursuit of Weston with the other two in tow, down the treacherous river. River Of No Return, starring Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe and directed by Otto Preminger, this is the film neither of them gave a second thought to once the picture had wrapped. It was a much troubled production that saw Preminger and Monroe reach positive levels of hatred for each other, with Mitchum acting as go between for much of the time. Preminger was
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Cast
- Robert MitchumMatt Calder
- Marilyn MonroeKay Weston
- Rory CalhounHarry Weston
- Tommy RettigMark Calder
- Murvyn VyeDave Colby
- Douglas SpencerSam Benson
- Fred AldrichProspector (uncredited)
- Claire AndreSurrey Driver (uncredited)
- Hal BaylorYoung Punk (uncredited)
- Don BeddoeBen (uncredited)
Crew
- Otto PremingerDirector
- Frank FentonScreenplay
- Joseph LaShelleDirector of Photography
- Cyril J. MockridgeOriginal Music Composer
- Louis R. LoefflerEditor
- Stanley RubinProducer
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