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Upon finding his brother murdered by Jack Sutton's thugs, Trace Jordon sets about enacting revenge. Injured and on the lam, he teams up with half Mexican beauty Maria, who herself has reason to vent fury on Sutton and his team.A lot of people dislike Westerns, not me, i absolutely love the genre. But i have a theory that maybe explains why so many folk view the genre with disdain and contempt. It's because of films like The Burning Hills, films that years and years ago saw young impressionable film watchers tune in to watch drivel like this, thus being scarred for life and tarring the genre with the same brush.Just a theory mind....This is bad, made as some bubblegum teen enticing picture, it features Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, both of whom give performances that wouldn't be out of place in a carpenter's work shop. With Miss Wood desperately trying to do Mexican in the hope it was going to save the film. It didn't. The story runs a standard course without any worthy up tempo moments to spice up proceedings, and the score from David Buttolph is badly constructed. Some nice location work from Ted D. McCord keeps it mildly pleasing on the eye, and director Stuart Heisler does what he can with the meandering bad lot he is saddled with.But really this is not recommended to even the hardiest of Western fans. This is for Hunter and Wood completists only. I go 3/10 for Earl Holliman and Claude Akins who manfully beef up the support cast.
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