River of No Return

Ben Mankiewicz introduces River Of No Return, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces River Of No Return, 1954.

Recently re-united on their frontier farm (shot on location in Alberta), Calder (Robert Mitchum) and son Mark (Tommy Rettig) are checking out the natives when acquaintances Harry (Rory Calhoun) and Kay (Marilyn Monroe) ride up on a raft, in Otto Preminger's River Of No Return, 1954.

Young Mark (Tommy Rettig) is doing odd jobs at a Northwestern gold camp circa 1875 when his father Matt (Robert Mitchum) at last finds him, then gets introduced to showgirl Kay (Marilyn Monroe), early in Otto Preminger's River Of No Return, 1954.

Unhappy traveling partners Kay (Marilyn Monroe) and Calder (Robert Mitchum), along with his son Mark (Tommy Rettig), forced to run the generally not-navigable river, trouble and bonding ensuing, in Otto Preminger's River Of No Return, 1954.

A frontier farmer takes off with his son and a saloon singer after the man who stole his rifle and his horse in River of No Return (1954).