River of No Return

film by Preminger [1954]

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The film River of No Return is a 1954 American Western directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The movie is described as lively, though conventional.1

Preminger was an Austrian-born American director known for defying Hollywood's Production Code with controversial films that led to the relaxation of censorship regulations. His films often featured moral neutrality. Some of his other notable works include Laura (1944), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).1

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…Fox in 1954 to make River of No Return, a lively if conventional western that teamed Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. Next was Carmen Jones (1954), a well-mounted modernizing of the Georges Bizet opera, now set in the U.S. South with an all-Black cast that featured Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte
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…Fox in 1954 to make River of No Return, a lively if conventional western that teamed Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. Next was Carmen Jones (1954), a well-mounted modernizing of the Georges Bizet opera, now set in the U.S. South with an all-Black cast that featured Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte
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