I don't watch a lot of Westerns but something about this caught my eye. The title for one thing. Plus I'd just seen Robert Mitchum in the original Cape Fear and thought he was great. So I figured I'd check this out.
Mitchum plays Jeff McCloud, a retired rodeo champion who begins to mentor Arthur Kennedy's Wes Merritt. Susan Hayward (who is very easy on the eyes btw) plays Merritt's wife Louise, who is torn between fearing for her husband's safety and supporting her man.
There's some down home wisdom in the dialogue ("Hope's a funny thing. You can have it even when there ain't no reason for it" and "There never was a bronc that couldn't be rode, there never a cowboy that couldn't be throwed." and "that's a wife profession, forgiving her husband" and my favorite, "I made a thousand bartenders rich in my lifetime") and the sexual tension between Mitchum and Hayward is palpable.
All this added up to an enjoyable movie with an ending I didn't see coming.
Mitchum plays Jeff McCloud, a retired rodeo champion who begins to mentor Arthur Kennedy's Wes Merritt. Susan Hayward (who is very easy on the eyes btw) plays Merritt's wife Louise, who is torn between fearing for her husband's safety and supporting her man.
There's some down home wisdom in the dialogue ("Hope's a funny thing. You can have it even when there ain't no reason for it" and "There never was a bronc that couldn't be rode, there never a cowboy that couldn't be throwed." and "that's a wife profession, forgiving her husband" and my favorite, "I made a thousand bartenders rich in my lifetime") and the sexual tension between Mitchum and Hayward is palpable.
All this added up to an enjoyable movie with an ending I didn't see coming.