Great but Flawed

Before I start I want to say this one of the best western and classic. But I still think it is not as great as it could have been. I feel the main weakness in this movie is women. I don’t mean to sound like some sexist jerk but I think the scenes with women are bad. I think the roles of the women are forced and unneeded. I'm not completely against women in westerns. With of course the exception of Coleen Gray who's character partly accounts for Dunson's bitterness. Even their scene together is a little too cheesy. The role in the film that hurts it the most is Joanne Dru's. It seemed like the studio just threw here in the movie to try and have a romance. It really didnt work at all. Her scense are so cornball and useless that they harm the tension that had been going on earlier between Matt and Dunson. The love interest also affects the ending of the film. Just because Matt finds a women Dunson forgets all about the cattle drive. This is way too hard to believe that Wayne's character who is so vengeful and bitter to let bygones be bygones. Putting these thing aside this is a great western. So I want to know if anyone else thinks this movie looses its edge a little bit in towards the end of the movie. I can’t be the only one