John Wayne cheats at fast draw! I’m so disallusioned now!

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I’ve seen Red River a few hundred times and there’s a fast draw scene where Montgomery Clift kind of pulls the same stunt. When he’s walking away and Walter Brennan says “draw!” as he and John Wayne go for their guns for fun, his is already in his hand as he spins around. I don’t care, though. I thought he was real good in that movie.
 
"Well, raise my rent!" One scene that disappointed me was the movie where Duke's estranged wife sends for him to get their grandson back from kidnappers.(Forget the name of the movie, but he got introduced to the 1911 Colt in it, too.) Anyway, near the beginning he comes across a guy getting ready to hang a sheep herder, pulls out his trusty jack knife, opens it up and throws it and it sticks in the tree for the lynch man can to cut the hanging rope. It would take 2000 throws to get a jack knife to stick in a tree like that, from at least ten feet away, then it's stuck right beside the guy so he doesn't have to reach farther than arm's length. I suppose The Duke can do anything he wants, though!
 
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