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Released
1948 · FILM

Red River

Determined rancher Thomas Dunson sets out to drive his herd from Texas to Missouri, but his iron‑fisted leadership sparks a deadly power struggle with his adopted son Matthew, jeopardizing the entire cattle run.

Directed by
Rated
FSK · FSK 12
Runtime
133 min
DramaWestern
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

After the Civil War, determined rancher Thomas Dunson resolves to undertake a dangerous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. As the grueling journey progresses, his unwavering resolve begins to appear tyrannical to Matthew Garth, his adopted son and apprentice.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christian NybyShot by Russell HarlanScored by Dimitri Tiomkin

Box Office

1948 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$9.0M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$9.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Panik am roten Flussde
  • Panik am roten Flußde
  • Río Rojoes
  • La Rivière rougefr
  • Fiume rossoit
  • Il fiume rossoit

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