Review of Ride Him, Cowboy

. . . during her Troubles of the 1900s into our 21st Century for hanging BOTH Quasimodo's crush Esmerelda AND this gypsy gal's dancing goat! Just thinking about that poor, innocent goat flailing around at the end of a rope is enough to make anyone toss their French fries. Warner Bros. uses RIDE HIM, COWBOY to warn America that the "Red State" West is every bit as uncouth and gauche as backwards France. It's bad enough that a 25-year-old John Wayne is almost strung up for possession of a harmonica, before he's done anything in Real Life to earn his nickname of "The American Anti-Christ." But the heartless bozos who populate the U.S. West go too far in putting Wayne's Wonder Horse "Duke" on trial, with an eye toward dropping the white stallion on the Gallows. Both "Dukes"--man and horse--are nearly doomed on the say-so of the local crime-lord, a top honcho on the town's Vigilante Council. Red Stater's inability to differentiate between Angels and Demons explains why they're now going down at the Final Trump, Warner Bros. explains with RIDE HIM, COWBOY.