River of No Return
1954, NR, 91 min.
Directed by Otto Preminger, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Rory Calhoun, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum.

This swell CinemaScope movie that shows off the landscape and Marilyn Monroe to their best advantages wraps up the AFS summer series. It’s fun watching Mitchum and Monroe heat things up in the Old West; Monroe is at her most luminous as a saloon singer with a heart of gold.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.