Red River

Red River is a 1948 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne as Thomas Dunson, Montgomery Clift as Matthew Garth, Joanne Dru as Tess Millay, Walter Brennan as 'Groot' Nadine, Coleen Gray as Fen. Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. The film's dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas rancher who initiated it and his adopted adult son.