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River of No Return (1954)

River of No Return poster
Directed by
Paul Helmick, Jean Negulesco, Otto Preminger
Genre
Western film, action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 484 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A widowed farmer and his young son are stranded in the wilderness with a saloon singer. They must survive dangerous rapids and hostile natives as they travel down a river.

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What happens

River of No Return is a 1954 American Western film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film Bicycle Thieves. The picture was shot on location in the Canadian Rockies in Technicolor and CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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