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John Wayne Thought ‘Red River’ Finger Mutilation Scene Was ‘Going Too Far,’ so Howard Hawks Did It With a ‘Better Actor’ Instead

Red River tells the story of Thomas Dunson (Wayne), who puts together the seedlings of a Texas cattle ranch that has the potential to thrive. He requires help from his trail hand named Groot (Walter ...
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John Wayne Said ‘Red River’ Was the First Time He ‘Felt Like a Real Actor’

Pilar Wayne and Alex Thorleifson’s book, John Wayne: My Life With the Duke, explored the life and career of the Red River actor. He frequently repeated his mentor, John Ford’s, words to the press when ...
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It's One Of John Wayne's Best Westerns, But He Isn't The Movie's Real Star

Despite having a reputation as one of the greatest Westerns in John Wayne's entire filmography, it's actually not his performance that's the best one in Red River. Out of all the legions of movies ...
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This Classic Howard Hawks Western Gave Us a Very Different John Wayne

Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...
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Howard Hughes Tried (and Failed) to Get This John Wayne Western Shelved

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
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Cowboy classic ‘Red River’s’ gay subtext runs even deeper than that homoerotic pistol-comparing scene

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with cowboy romance A Strange Way Of Life now streaming on Netflix, we’re revisiting 1948’s queer-coded Western ...