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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.
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“High concept” films are not a novel phenomenon in Hollywood, and examples can be found in the relatively distant past. One such example is *River of No Return*, a 1954 western directed by Otto Preminger. The plot is set in the Northwestern United States in the mid‑1870s and follows the journey of Matt Calder (played by Robert Mitchum), a rugged frontiersman. It begins at a trading post where Calder, after years of…More
