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Showing posts with label John Wayne. Show all posts

Red River (1948)

Red River (1948) is a classic Howard Hawks non-noir Indian wrestlin cattle nestin steer brandin wandering epistolary epic narrative forming cowboy bangin homo-incestuo-erotic hard as nails hard bargaining pig headed bullying and unapologetically stampeding male egotistical alpha male patriarchal bard nosed bully-boss overlong and racist gripping dramatic super right wing cattle drivin hold you to your word or I will kill you preachin disastrous middle class white Americans out west in the scrubby wilds of a sound stage on which John Wayne will shoot ya just for BEING A QUITTER FFS starring a morally darkened John Wayne ("Watch it!")