River of No Return | |
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Directed by | Otto Preminger |
Written by | Louis Lantz |
Screenplay by | Frank Fenton |
Story by | Louis Lantz |
Produced by | Stanley Rubin |
Starring | Robert Mitchum Marilyn Monroe Tommy Rettig Rory Calhoun |
Cinematography | Joseph LaShelle |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,200,000[2][3] |
Box office | $3.8 million[4] |
River of No Return is a 1954 American Western musical 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.[5] The picture was shot on location in the Canadian Rockies in Technicolor and CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox.