Gone with the West (1975)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Bernard Girard

Writers:

Monroe Manning (written by) and
Douglas Day Stewart (written by) ...

Release Date:

September 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Western | Action

Plot Keywords:

Arson | Catapult | Prison | Barroom | Hung Upside Down

Cast

James Caan	...	Jud McGraw
Stefanie Powers	...	Little Moon
Aldo Ray	...	Mimmo, Stage Robber
Barbara Werle	...	Billie
Robert Walker Jr.	...	Sheriff of Black Miller
Sammy Davis Jr.	...	Kid Dandy
Heather Angel	...	Old Little Moon / Narrator
Mike Lane	...	Shark
Elmore Vincent	...	Jerry
L. Andy Stone	...	Old Jud
Elizebeth Leigh	...	Gail
Kenneth Adams	...	Artie (as Kenny Adams)
Michael Conrad	...	Smithy
Anne Barton	...	Smithy's Wife
Paul Bergen	...	Singing Cowboy

Also Known As:

Bronco Busters
Little Moon and Jud McGraw (USA) (reissue title)
Man Without Mercy (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

92 min | Netherlands:95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Australia:R (original rating) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA

Company:

Cougar Productions

Movie Connections:

Edited into Dead People (1973)

Incomprehensible jumble set to annoying music

This has to be one of the worst movies ever! How did it take three people to write a story with nearly no dialog and very little plot? How did anyone get talked into financing this bomb? How did they manage to get James Caan and SAMMY DAVIS JR.! to appear in this thing? I think this movie gave Sammy Davis Jr. cancer. He probably never let Sinatra or Dean Martin know he was in this thing. It is that utterly bad. It is more confusing than some bizarre Fellini flick. I watched the whole thing and I have NO idea what it is about, just a collection of scenes that don't add up to a story. I don't know what any of it means - the cockfighting, the woman and little kid getting shot, the two hookers (?) getting into a fight, the wrestling match in the bar (which is perpetually in a fight scene), the cowboy singing 'Abide With Me' every so often. Weird, weird, weird. Maybe it would make sense if you watched it on LSD, since it was apparently written under that influence. I can't recall another movie which has left me feeling so stunned, like 'What the HECK was that?' No wonder it's in the public domain; nobody would have spent the few dollars to keep the copyrights going. Wow. This whole movie makes no sense whatever.