| Notes | Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD Special Edition Features:
- New 2K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New 2K digital restoration of the longer, prerelease version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions
- New interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
- New interview with film scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about the western genre
- Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
- Audio excerpts from a 1970 interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase
- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River from 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan
- Trailer
- Two Blu-rays and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks’s frequent editor Christian Nyby; a new paperback edition of Chase's original novel, previously out of print
Cover by Eric Skillman |
