When the ruthless father drives an enormous herd north of Texas, his son decides not to support his brutal leader style. Most of the story took me in. A lot of the tension came through the relentless brutality that Wayne's character displayed to everybody. The development of the story let me feel the rising madness, paranoia and control obsession of the leader of the trail. There were two or three historical hints, but in general it felt pretty convincing as a story in itself. On a sidenote: I have never seen written text in a movie presented so fast - I could barely follow the text on the page whenever excerpts of the diary were presented. The cast was perfectly chosen and the drift between Clift and Wayne was deepened by the knowledge at how far those two actors were in real life - in pretty much every sense. One or two things bothered me slightly: The "other" gun hero and Clift never get that showdown that the story promises in the beginning. There is some ri...
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