{"product_id":"red-river-709-used","title":"Red River (#709)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed River.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIn it, John Wayne found one of his greatest roles, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son—played by Montgomery Clift, in a breakout performance—reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri. The film is based on a novel that dramatizes the real-life late nineteenth-century expeditions along the Chisholm Trail, but Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masculinity that propel the myths of the American West. The unerringly macho Wayne and the neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks’s formidable direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\" data-feature-title-field=\"\"\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\" data-special-features-field=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e2K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2K digital restoration of the longer, prerelease version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed River\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with film scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about the western genre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio excerpts from a conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio excerpts from an interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLux Radio Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eadaptation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed River\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efrom 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks’s frequent editor Christian Nyby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCover by Eric Skillman\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharetools\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Criterion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40652846792748,"sku":"715515217217","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/products\/red-river-709-new-blu-ray-715515217217-7643347.jpg?v=1772397505","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/red-river-709-used","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}