Pretty solid, entertaining western, could have been better, but worth watching.I was hooked for most of the first half I particularly thought the scene where Ford (as Parrish) confronts Jaekel's character was thrilling, as was the scene where Ford tries some guerrilla warfare against the Anchor boys.
I'm in the minority here. Reading these other reviews, I can't believe we've seen the same movie.
If you view the movie as comedy and a parody of westerns, it is easier to watch, and actually enjoyable. If you are watching it hoping to see a real western, you will be disappointed.
There have been a handful of psychological westerns made over the years, from 1947's "Pursued" and long past 1950's "The Furies", the best of these, in which Barbara Stanwyck played the hopeful heiress to her father's legacy. Now, Stanwyck is the wife of a wealthy rancher (Edward G.
In many ways, this is a very typical sort of western. One of the most common themes in films, if not THE most common, was the idea of a boss who wanted to use his bully-boy tactics to drive out all the ranchers.
Highly watchable Western from a Donald Hamilton novel about confrontation between cattlemen and homesteaders . The picture gets action Western , shootouts , wonderful outdoors and is quite entertaining .
Another cracker of a fifties western is Columbia Picture's THE VIOLENT MEN (aka "Rough Company"). Produced by Louis J.
Attention: I don't know English. My text was translated by Google Translate.
Glenn Ford always seemed like an unlikely Western movie star to me. Short and a little pudgy, Ford never seemed to have that rugged machismo of John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, or the midwestern aw shucks of Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper or Henry Fonda.
