A fine clean sharp western with plenty of action.
I'm old enough to have seen this in the cinema. But not when it first came out, since I was born in 59. Yep, there was a time when cinemas didn't just show new movies.
I have seen it a few times since that first time, but I guess this is the first time I have seen it in over 20 years. I remembered the basic gist of the story, but not much of the details.
The first thing I noticed was how little music was in the movie. I liked that, and thought it effective.
Then there were the real life characters such as Wyatt Earp played by Will Geer. Now I liked Will Geer, but as Wyatt Earp, all I can say is "hmmm" Stephen McNally is okay as the main villain, and Stewart is fine, but the film is stolen by Dan Duryea. I can imagine an alternative ending with Duryea riding off at the ending and Stewart and Winters waving at him and agreeing that it was hard to dislike him completely.
I'm old enough to have seen this in the cinema. But not when it first came out, since I was born in 59. Yep, there was a time when cinemas didn't just show new movies.
I have seen it a few times since that first time, but I guess this is the first time I have seen it in over 20 years. I remembered the basic gist of the story, but not much of the details.
The first thing I noticed was how little music was in the movie. I liked that, and thought it effective.
Then there were the real life characters such as Wyatt Earp played by Will Geer. Now I liked Will Geer, but as Wyatt Earp, all I can say is "hmmm" Stephen McNally is okay as the main villain, and Stewart is fine, but the film is stolen by Dan Duryea. I can imagine an alternative ending with Duryea riding off at the ending and Stewart and Winters waving at him and agreeing that it was hard to dislike him completely.