“Funny how different you feel,” cattleman Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan) relates near the end of “Red River,” “when you know you’re going somewheres.” He’s right, but his is a sojourner’s satisfaction, ...

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes ...

Driving cattle across Texas at the close of the Civil War, a tyrannical John Wayne vows revenge when he is relieved of his herd by the younger Montgomery Clift who he all but adopted as a child. In ...

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 ...

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 ...