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Director:
André De Toth
Writers:
Kenneth Gamet (screenplay) and
John W. Cunningham (story)
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Release Date:
23 April 1954 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Western more
Plot:
A former spy moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but when he gets there decides that its not for him and tries to change his life. full summary | add synopsis
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Scott, Marvin, Borgnine: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda more (10 total)

Cast

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Randolph Scott ... Jeff Travis

Claire Trevor ... Josie Sullivan
Joan Weldon ... Shelby Conroy
George Macready ... Jules Mourret
Alfonso Bedoya ... Degas

Lee Marvin ... Dan Kurth

Ernest Borgnine ... Bull Slager
Pierre Watkin ... Jason Conroy
Joseph Vitale ... Shorty
Clem Bevans ... Jim Martin
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Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:(Banned) (1954) | Finland:S (1954) | Sweden:(Banned) (1954) | USA:Approved (certificate #16539)
Filming Locations:
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA more
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Originally photographed in 3-D but only issued in flat prints. more
Quotes:
Shelby Conroy: This town is a disgrace to everyone in it. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Fifties" (1997) more

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Scott, Marvin, Borgnine: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, 22 April 2004
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Author: JimB-4 from United States

With Randolph Scott in his best outfit riding his best horse (Starlight) and looking and acting his dusty old best, and with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine at their early villainous peaks, this could have been something. With Andre de Toth directing, it really should have been something. But it's not something. It's not anything, except a mess. Horrendous dialogue, terrible editing (the big gunfight in the mountains is unintelligible until the principals gather to rehash what just happened), and some really bad acting (not so much from Scott, Borgnine, or Marvin, but pretty much everybody else. Alfonso Bedoya is a joy to watch, as always, not because of his acting, which is abominable, but because it's so much fun trying to figure out what it is he's doing with his mouth to make him sound that way. George Macready, who belongs in things like "Gilda" rather than oaters like this, kept getting shoved into Randolph Scott Westerns (four of them). He's incredibly out of place in all of them. And Claire Trevor, so wonderful in "Dead End" and "Key Largo," is wasted here and one's heart goes out to the Oscar-winning actress for having to do such pot-boiling dreck as this a scant five years after winning that Oscar. The attempts at 3-D effects are pretty laughable in their earnestness, and for an action movie, an awful lot of the actual action occurs just off-screen -- saving money on stuntmen and stagecoaches, I suppose, but diluting the feel of the down-and-dirty Western this clearly wants to be taken for. I'll watch anything Randolph Scott did in the Fifties and Sixties, but this one was an absolute chore. I'd sure like to know where to get a coat like that, though.

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