What did the studio do to Red River?
Turned it pink?
I'm not sure if you've seen it so I'll give you the basics assuming that you have not seen it. Wayne's character was an A**hole! I thought it was the best performance he ever gave honestly. But the character and his son (Montgomery Clift) were at each others throat the entire movie. At the end of the movie they got into a fight and they basically had a smile and hug feel good moment at the end. My understanding is that Clift's character was suppose to kill Wayne's character. The studio didn't want Wayne dying and they sure didn't want movie goers seeing him as a villain so they had this radical personality change at the end. I like to say that the movie suddenly turned into McLintock! at the end.