Teenager Cass Bunning has ambitions to use his skill with the gun as a bounty hunter. With his beautiful young wife Nellie, who was a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job -which turns out to be in a brothel- he embarks on a new life that is destined to lead to tragedy ...
Budd Boetticher was sick in hospital and Audie paid him a visit, and later they decided to work together. Due to his gambling, Audie was having money problems and the only way out was to make a western, but I am just baffled on how a film like A Time for dying could boost his career. Never mind that Audie was in the film for 4 minutes as Jesse James - that's the best the part of the film. It's so sad that he hadn't lived as his acting in those four minutes was very good. He's confident, and at ease, but it's not enough to save this very poor western, which is as exciting as washing dishes. It's got poor acting from Richard Lapp, whose haircut is horrendous. This western is quite nihilistic and cruel with horrid characters and a downbeat ending - a pointless one. The only good thing in this western is Audie, the title music, the cinematography, Victor Jory, the rattlesnake in the beginning, the cactus and the "the End" titles. Ok, it's not as bad as "More dead than Alive" - Clint Walker Western but that's because it's shorter by 30 minutes.
Budd Boetticher was sick in hospital and Audie paid him a visit, and later they decided to work together. Due to his gambling, Audie was having money problems and the only way out was to make a western, but I am just baffled on how a film like A Time for dying could boost his career. Never mind that Audie was in the film for 4 minutes as Jesse James - that's the best the part of the film. It's so sad that he hadn't lived as his acting in those four minutes was very good. He's confident, and at ease, but it's not enough to save this very poor western, which is as exciting as washing dishes. It's got poor acting from Richard Lapp, whose haircut is horrendous. This western is quite nihilistic and cruel with horrid characters and a downbeat ending - a pointless one. The only good thing in this western is Audie, the title music, the cinematography, Victor Jory, the rattlesnake in the beginning, the cactus and the "the End" titles. Ok, it's not as bad as "More dead than Alive" - Clint Walker Western but that's because it's shorter by 30 minutes.