River of no return.

A: Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Color Sound Otto Preminger Director: Otto Preminger Twentieth Century Pictures

The film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder, who has recently been released from prison after serving time for killing one man while defending another. He arrives in a boomtown tent city in search of his ten-year-old son Mark (Tommy Rettig), who was left in the care of dance hall singer Kay (Marilyn Monroe) Kay's fiance, Harry Weston, tells her they must go to Council City to file the deed on a gold mine he won in a poker game. The three are forced to escape down the river on Harry's raft on a homemade log raft, and when they encounter

Credits

Directed by
Paul Helmick, Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco
Written by
Frank Fenton
Cast
Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Don Beddoe, Barbara Nichols, Tommy Rettig, Douglas Spencer, Murvyn Vye, Ralph Sanford, Will Wright, Fred Aldrich, Rory Calhoun, Arthur Shields, Edmund Cobb, Hank Mann
Produced by
Stanley Rubin
Cinematography
Joseph LaShelle
Music
Cyril J. Mockridge
Edited by
Louis R. Loeffler

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, country, genre, description, credits
  2. Wikidata · Q1470997 ↗