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Plot Summary
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. In his pursuit to exact revenge at any cost, Matt takes Kay and Mark on a treacherous ride down a roaring river, where they’re at the mercy of wild animals and a lawless frontier.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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64%- Reviews Counted: 14
- Fresh: 9
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 5.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Director Otto Preminger has thrown all the grandeur and menace of these features upon the eye-filling CinemaScope screen.
Fresh: The striking beauties of the Canadian Rockies co-star with the blonde charms of Marilyn Monroe and the masculine muscles of Robert Mitchum in River of No Return.
Fresh: One of the first films to discover the potential of CinemaScope and a fine example of Preminger's rational approach to the mysteries of personal morality.
Rotten: Despite some pretty locations and occasional tension, there's little going on.
Customer Reviews
Very Great Work
There is many great films by the Lovely Marilyn Monroe, and this is one of them, It is not the fun Blonde Bombshell film you would be use to seeing, she plays a rough and tough person. It is very talented.... I give this 5 stars, Marilyn your work Lives on and It is always in our hearts... Other Great Marilyn Monroe Films I Suggest: Some Like It Hot, Seven Year Itch, Don't Bother To Knock, Niagra, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Bus Stop, How To Marry A Millionaire...:)
Good Marilyn, but...
This movie is so amazingly politically incorrect and corny that it really takes away from Marilyn's performance, which was, I'd say, great for her because she plays a different character then she usually does. Of course she still is the blonde bombshell type that she was never able to break free from, but her character is a little tougher. However, this is, to be honest, one of my least favorites of her films. I would highly recommend one of her comedies over a Western.
River of no return
This is the real Marilyn! She and Robert Mitchum had to do all of their own stunts. She almost drowned and Robert got really wet. Story's not so bad but I would definitely not say it was a "class B" as the reviewers wrote. This movie took a lot of guts on everyone's part & is now considered a classic. And doesn't Marilyn look sexy in those tight-fittin' jeans??? Plays her own guitar too. You want to see the real marilyn before she became notorious? Then take a look at this movie. Btw, Robert Mitchum sings the title song, but receives no credit for it
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- $14.99
- Genre: Action & Adventure
- Released: 1954
- © 1954 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Renewed 1982 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.