| 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 |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.1 million[2] |
| Box office | $3.8 million[3] |
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.[4] The picture was shot on location in the Canadian Rockies in Technicolor and CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox.
- ^ River of No Return (1954) 90–91 mins | Adventure | May 1954
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 248
- ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', Variety Weekly, January 5, 1955
- ^ Hirsch, Foster, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2007. ISBN 978-0-375-41373-5, p. 202