I can't imagine who would want to make this movie or who would want to watch it. Howard Hawks's Red River is a 2+ hour Western about a cattle herder herding cattle. I can't really make it much more exciting than that, and neither can Hawks. The cinematography and editing are both uninteresting. The visuals don't sync up with audio in wide shots, where Hawks perhaps assumed we wouldn't be able to tell. There is a 30 second montage of men yelling out "Yee haw!" The acting is often theatrical and melodramatic. The story took over an hour to grab your attention, but once it did, it held onto you for the remainder of the film.
John Wayne's Thomas Dunson provides a fascinating base for a character study. It allowed the film to explore some interesting themes through Dunson's words, actions, and emotions. We see how he deals with aging, declining mental faculties, making mistakes, being hard-hearted, and being betrayed. Still, it would take a lot more than that for me to recommend this movie to anyone but the most die hard of Hawks fans or Western fans.IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040724/