I first watched this film more than thirty years ago, and I hated it. I must say that I discovered THE WILD BUNCH only a couple of days before...How the hell can any one compare this piece of crap to Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece? Because there are William Holden and Ernest Borgnine in it?
I waited more than thirty years to see it again; maybe sometimes you can expect a different point of view, you may be more mature, you may watch in a more accurate way and, why not...
But no, this feature seems even more dull and useless to me as a camel would be in the North Pole. I don't know if it is because of the director - Daniel Mann - who has never been an action films one. But Blake Edwards was not a western nor action movies director either, and he gave us the tremendous WILD ROVERS one year before, also starring William Holden. The actors direction seems OK, but it is the story which is dumb at the most. Poor Susan Hayward who gives here,as far as I know, her last performance. She deserved better. Far better.
Early seventies westerns were usually bloody, gritty, gloomy movies, unless the Andrew Mac Laglen or Burt Kennedy's ones, and I expected far far more from this one, i repeat.
Forget it, a total waste.
I waited more than thirty years to see it again; maybe sometimes you can expect a different point of view, you may be more mature, you may watch in a more accurate way and, why not...
But no, this feature seems even more dull and useless to me as a camel would be in the North Pole. I don't know if it is because of the director - Daniel Mann - who has never been an action films one. But Blake Edwards was not a western nor action movies director either, and he gave us the tremendous WILD ROVERS one year before, also starring William Holden. The actors direction seems OK, but it is the story which is dumb at the most. Poor Susan Hayward who gives here,as far as I know, her last performance. She deserved better. Far better.
Early seventies westerns were usually bloody, gritty, gloomy movies, unless the Andrew Mac Laglen or Burt Kennedy's ones, and I expected far far more from this one, i repeat.
Forget it, a total waste.