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River's End (1930)

River's End poster
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian Mountie pursues a fugitive across a wintry landscape and discovers the man looks exactly like him. The Mountie must decide whether to capture the man or protect him.

bleaktenseatmosphericdramaticmoralintrospectivecoldpursuit-driven

What happens

River's End is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Charles Bickford and Evalyn Knapp. Bickford plays two roles, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sergeant and the man he is after. The film is the second of three adaptations of the bestselling novel The River's End by James Oliver Curwood, the others being released in 1920 and 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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