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4 videodiscs (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #709
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Set of two Blu-ray discs and set of two DVD videodiscs each contain the theatrical version of the feature film, the prerelease version of the feature film, and the same collection of special features
"An embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher['s] tensions with his independent-minded adopted son ... reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri"--Container
Title on container: Howard Hawks' Red River
"From the Saturday Evening Post story by Borden Chase."
Videodisc release of the 1948 motion picture
Accompanying booklet contains an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1991 interview with film editor Christian Nyby
Accompanying book is a new paperback edition of Borden Chase's original novel: Blazing guns on the Chisholm Trail
Special features on both the set of Blu-ray discs and the set of DVD videodiscs include an interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, an interview with critic Molly Haskell, an interview with film scholar Lee Clark Mitchell, audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich, audio excerpts from a 1970 interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase, and the Lux Radio Theatre 1949 adaptation of Red River, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan
Director of photography, Russell Harlan ; editor, Christian Nyby ; music composed and directed by Dimitri Tiomkin
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Colleen Gray, Harry Carey, Sr., John Ireland, Noah Beery, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr., Chief Yowlachie, Paul Fix, Hank Worden, Mickey Kuhn, Ray Hyke, Hal Taliaferro
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Blu-ray, region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural
DVD, region 1, NTSC; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired (SDH)