The River's Edge is a 1957 American film noir adventure, crime, and drama DeLuxe CinemaScope film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn and Debra Paget.

The picture is based on the unpublished short story "The Higher Mountain" by Harold Jacob Smith.

Ben Cameron is a struggling New Mexico rancher who is devoted to his wife Meg.

Meg has not adjusted to ranch life and she still loves her former partner in crime, Nardo Denning, who abandoned her after her arrest.

Denning apologizes for deserting Meg and reveals that he has $1 million in cash from a recent job.

They shelter in a cave, where Ben starts a fire with his $10,000 to boil water for her injured arm.