gunsel

[Mullins, Bill]

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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
> Subject:      Re: gunsel
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>  E.g., remember the
> scene in Red River in which John Wayne says to Montgomery
> Clift, "You young punk"? It had the audience of the Dugout
> (actually, the Douglas) rolling in the aisles.

Given what is now common knowledge about Clift, but was probably
"on the down low" back then, maybe the Duke was expressing a
double meaning???