John Wayne and Young Montgomery Clift in “Red River” (filmed in 1946, released in 1948)

montgomery clift john wayne red riverAgain, although you wouldn’t know it from all the pix I’ve posted of Montgomery Clift in “Red River” and all the gratuitous shirtless cowboys, I’m not really into cowboys or even western themed movies at all. But Montgomery Clift in this movie is, in my opinion, the sexiest thing I have seen yet in a Hollywood movie of any decade. Young Brad Pitt in “Thelma and Louise” is a distant second.