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?
Yes! For almost an hour we hear how Wayne is on his way to kill Clift, and then the moment happens where they meet face-to-face and we expect a knockdown, drag-out fight, but before the fight really begins, a woman (a character that we barely know) comes in and stops it, acting hysterical like Scarlett O'Hara on speed. LOL! What a terrible ending to what had been a great movie.
(BTW, I want to apologize for my tone in post #171. I wasn't speaking to you, but to the writer that you quoted :)