Watched “River of No Return” (1954) for free on YouTube, starring Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. I love Westerns but hadn’t heard of this one before. It was one of the first films to use a blood squib to simulate a gunshot wound.
Marilyn Monroe, who nearly drowned during filming, claimed River of No Return was her worst movie, but I thought she was great in it. She even did her own singing.
Filmed in Canada on a budget of $2.2 million, it was considered a box office hit by taking in $3.8 million. Wow, how times have changed.
~ J.L. Hilton
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