The Confederate is losing the war. Union officer Kerry Bradford (Errol Flynn) leads an escape attempt from a prison run by Captain Vance Irby (Randolph Scott). Southern belle Julia Hayne (Miriam Hopkins) has an outrageous idea and presents it to Irby, then to President Jefferson Davis. She intends to smuggle $5 million in gold from Union held Virginia City, Nevada with southern sympathizers. Hayne and Irby set off separately. Bradford has a similar idea. After his escape, he sets off for Virginia City with two comrades and boards a stagecoach whose passengers happen to be Hayne and outlaw John Murrell (Humphrey Bogart).
The star power is shining bright. The premise starts off with a convoluted inconvenient mess. It's an old fashion western adventure. I do love the stunts and the locations more than anything else. The oddity is that the movie does not state the rooting interesting and leave it on both sides. Bogie is the only mustachioed villain of the lot. The ending is all wrong. Bradford may want to help but there is no reason for the Yanks. At the end of the day, the movie needs to choose the North or the South. I can rig up a way to end this with them joining forces but not in this way.
The star power is shining bright. The premise starts off with a convoluted inconvenient mess. It's an old fashion western adventure. I do love the stunts and the locations more than anything else. The oddity is that the movie does not state the rooting interesting and leave it on both sides. Bogie is the only mustachioed villain of the lot. The ending is all wrong. Bradford may want to help but there is no reason for the Yanks. At the end of the day, the movie needs to choose the North or the South. I can rig up a way to end this with them joining forces but not in this way.