Red River Movie ReviewThe 1948 Western Red River is a film of action, romance and hardship. The main characters are Tom Dunson played by John Wayne, the wagon driver Groot Nadine played by Walter Brennan and Dunson's adopted son Matt Garth played by Montgomery Clift. This is a western showing the first cattle drive of the Chisholm Trail. In the first scene Tom Dunson was traveling with a wagon train in 1851 and decides to set out on his own path to start a cattle ranch in Texas. His chariot driver accompanies him. Dunson's girlfriend wants to accompany him but he tells her he will send for her. While they are away they see smoke and see that it is the Indians who are destroying the caravan, because the caravan is crossing Indian territory. Soon after the attack they meet a boy, Matt, who Dunson later adopts as his son. The men and boy go to Texas so Dunson can start his own cattle ranch. While Matt is away at school, Dunson has started a 9,000-head cattle ranch. When Matt came home from school in 1866, some 15 years later; Dunson is preparing f...