Screenplay:
Frank FentonCinematography:
Joseph LaShelleCast:
Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye, Douglas Spencer, Arthur Shields, Barbara Nichols, John Doucette, Will Wright (more)VOD (1)
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Matt Calder is a rugged widower with a questionable past who decides it's time to start a new life with his young son, Mark. But their peaceful existence is sabotaged when Matt is robbed and pistol-whipped by cold-blooded gambler Harry Weston. Unexpectedly, Weston's fiancée, Kay, postpones her wedding so she can nurse Matt back to health. (20th Century Fox UK)
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River of No Return is a classic great western. The brilliant CinemaScope wonderfully frames the story through the breathtaking Canadian landscape, giving acting opportunities that were only minimally doled out at the time. Even MM's acting is excellent, as she understood her Kay Weston completely (thus her unrealistic hairstyle remains the only problem). Even the rear projection is not problematic and although according to the rules of the genre there is a purely happy ending at the end of the film, it is not kitsch. A pleasant surprise.
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