Product Details

• Actors: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson
• Directors: Allan Dwan
• Writers: James Leicester, Harold Jacob Smith
• Producers: Benedict Bogeaus
• Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: July 11, 2006
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FFJ83U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,480 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The River's Edge" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Anthony Quinn and Debra Paget are stunning – and Ray Milland is at his most dastardly – in this fiery love triangle that boasts intense action and rugged adventure in the Southwest.

Deep in the lonely New Mexico desert, Ben Cameron (Anthony Quinn) and his wife Meg (Debra Paget) struggle to build their small ranch. But the arrival of the charming but deadly trickster Nardo Denning (Ray Milland) could tear apart more than their homkestead. With a gun in his hand and a secret about Meg’s past in his heart, Denning forces Ben to guide him safely to Mexico with his stolen fortune. As they navigate the dangerous terrain, each man struggles to gain the upper hand for survival – and for Meg – in this tense and gripping Western.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars First-Rate Western Thriller, July 22, 2006

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The best way to decribe "The River's Edge" is that it is a hybrid of noir and pulp fiction reminiscent of the work of Jim Thompson. It also works as a smashing adventure story. The two leads here are superb. Ray Milland is menacing as the heavy but does so with great subtlety. Anthony Quinn is intriguing as the rancher and there are many shades to his character. His Ben Cameron is a good man but he is no wilting flower in the face of evil as represented by Milland's Nardo Denning. The confrontations between these two are tense and keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. Though not fatal to the film, Debra Paget as Quinn's wife and Milland's former squeeze is the weak link in the triangle. You don't believe for one minute that Paget was ever a gangster's moll who served time in the pen. I recommend this film ultimately as an opportunity to see two top actors at the top of their game.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Western + noir = River's edge, November 3, 2006

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This wonderful and underrated film is one of Dwan's finest. Allan Dwan's career, which started in the silent era, is amongst the most exciting and prolific of Hollywood's classic era. The River's edge starts like a melodrama: ex crook Ray Milland looks for his former girlfriend (Debra Paget) and eventually finds her, remarried to a simple and honest man (Anthony Quinn at his very best). But the plot then shifts into a manhunt across the mountains, with murder and betrayal. Dwan has a unique sense of time and space, not unlike Anthony Mann's, and his style combines the flamboyence of Sirk with the self contained assurance of John Ford. As a mixture of 50's noir and contemporary western, River's edge, beautifully photographed in technicolor and cinemascope is one of the great "lost films". It's ruthless but filled with extraordinary humanity. The film builds up to a surprising finale with a startling shot alongside "the river's edge". Its a film about greed, lust and love, wonderfully written and acted. A must see.

4.0 out of 5 stars Paget sizzles in moody noir-adventure, May 28, 2011

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The River's Edge (DVD)

Put together on a very limited budget by independant producer Benedict Bogeaus, 1957's THE RIVER'S EDGE is a very entertaining film which plays like a cross-breed noir adventure. It's stars are Ray Milland, Debra Paget and Anthony Quinn.

When San Francisco con-man and all-round bad guy Nardo Denning (Ray Milland) tracks down his former girlfriend Meg (Debra Paget), now living on a small farm with husband Ben Cameron (Anthony Quinn); he pays Ben to guide him over the border into Mexico. Nardo's sole cargo is a suitcase stuffed with hot cash - and the offer is too good for Ben to refuse. Their farm isn't working out, and Meg's about to walk away for good.

As the troubled trio set off on foot for Mexico, all manner of obstacles will stand in their way - most of which stem from the psychological torment the two men harbour over Meg...

THE RIVER'S EDGE is a rare colour noir; and the colour works to spectacular effect in illustrating the inner dilemmas of the characters. Debra Paget, looking very foxy indeed with her close-cropped hair (dyed in a vivid red that pops off the screen) delivers a good performance as Meg, though it's been reported that director Allan Dwan felt dissatisfied with her portrayal. Fans of Paget will know that this was one of her first truly "contemporary" film roles (after years of working in period costumes in things like "Les Miserables" and "Prince Valiant"). I imagine she enjoyed the chance to finally prove herself with a modern heroine.

The two men are likewise superb, but you can't really miss when you have Anthony Quinn and Ray Milland on the screen. Quinn was riding high on a series of superb film performances, including Fellini's "La Strada". Milland, in a sense, repeats his dubious, benign bad guy from "Dial M For Murder" in his portrayal of Nardo, but it again works for this movie.

The film's small budget is apparent in some scenes (like the studio-bound cave sets and some particularly-clunky Day for Night shots) but THE RIVER'S EDGE is a good example of the Fox B-movie at it's height. Recommended.

The DVD from Fox includes a few good extras you wouldn't normally find for a film as relatively "minor" as THE RIVER'S EDGE, including audio commentary with film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, the trailer, and a still gallery; plus bonus trailers for "The Snake Pit" and "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit".