The sheer outrageousness of the characters of the Guffler family will amuse you even as you wonder why Clint Eastwood is dealing with them in the first place.
Trail boss Eastwood is at their spread buying horses for the drive's reymuda and they try to stick him with some fleabags so he says no sale and wants a $100.00. Ma Guffler played by Mercedes McCambridge decides they'll hold Eastwood for ransom of the $3000.00 that he was supposed to pay them.
This is truly ludicrous, did McCambridge her Oxford Rhodes Scholar sons Warren Oates, Hal Baylor, and Robert Blake really think that they would get away with it. Either the drovers would get them or the law would sooner or later. Of course the men are kind of getting ideas about Sharon Farrell who lives with them.
As it is when money can't be raised, John Ireland plans a military style rescue of Eastwood.
The story is ludicrous, but the acting and the characters are quite engaging in an interesting sort of way.
Trail boss Eastwood is at their spread buying horses for the drive's reymuda and they try to stick him with some fleabags so he says no sale and wants a $100.00. Ma Guffler played by Mercedes McCambridge decides they'll hold Eastwood for ransom of the $3000.00 that he was supposed to pay them.
This is truly ludicrous, did McCambridge her Oxford Rhodes Scholar sons Warren Oates, Hal Baylor, and Robert Blake really think that they would get away with it. Either the drovers would get them or the law would sooner or later. Of course the men are kind of getting ideas about Sharon Farrell who lives with them.
As it is when money can't be raised, John Ireland plans a military style rescue of Eastwood.
The story is ludicrous, but the acting and the characters are quite engaging in an interesting sort of way.
