River's End (1940 film)

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River's End
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Directed by Ray Enright
Written by Barry Trivers
Bertram Millhauser
Fred Niblo Jr.
Based on The River's End
1919 novel
by James Oliver Curwood
Produced by William Jacobs
Bryan Foy
Jack L. Warner
Starring Dennis Morgan
Elizabeth Inglis
George Tobias
Cinematography Arthur L. Todd
Edited by Clarence Kolster
Music by Clifford Vaughan
Howard Jackson
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • August 10, 1940 (1940-08-10)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

River's End is a 1940 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth Inglis and George Tobias. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1919 novel The River's End by James Oliver Curwood which had previously been made into 1920 and 1930 films. It is also known by the alternative title of Double Identity.

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The film is a Northern in which a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer tracks an escaped convict, only to subsequently try to clear his name.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Esdras Hartley.

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  1. Pitts p.286

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