Do you like the way Red River ends? That's always bothered me. The movie is perfect except for the last two minutes.
Jonny, I forgot to mention another of my all-time favorite Duke films, The Searchers. That performance should have earned him an Oscar. Jeff Hunter was also excellent in that film, and should have gotten the best supporting actor Oscar for that role. I don't know who and what won the Oscars for 1956, but Duke and Hunter deserved the awards.
What I like about Red River is the way he gets started building the ranch at the beginning and the cattle drive scenes on the trail and the excitement of the town when the cattle make it to Abilene.
Always fun to see Harry Carey Jr.
Are you referring to the fight between Wayne and Clift at the end and how the fight ended?