And I""ll put a mark, a brand on ""em, to show they""re mine too.Matt: What kind of a mark?With a dream of a cattle empire (even though he is a long distance from the Red River), he kneels in the dirt and traces a distinctive Red River brand (the Red River D) for the bull and cow - his initial D (for Dunson) and two lines (a double S to show he two banks of the river):I""ve been thinkin"" about that.As is true of many of Howard Hawks"" finest films (including he crime filmScarface (1932),Twentieth Century (1934),His Girl Friday (1940),To Have and Have Not (1944), the detective filmThe Big Sleep (1946),Monkey Business (1952), andGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)), this masterpiece was not nominated for a single Academy Award...Carol: Then we don""t have to have it, do we?Gentleman: You must understand, Miss Fisher, that often circumstances over which we have no control." Mathayus was knocked unconscious and then buried up to his neck in sand in a desert pit, where it was expected that hungry red fire ants would eat his naked head.