One good thing is the few scenes that Ruth Roman is in ( a great underestimated actor in my opinion; ) two the use of colour which is excellent down to every detail and three the debatable way guns dominate so much of the fiction and non-fiction of the history of America. As for the story the Colt.45 gun falls out of the ' good ' hands of Randolph Scott into the over the top acting hands of Zachary Scott. Native Americans quite rightly get tired of being shot at and at least in one scene Randolph Scott is nice enough to save one. Fast paced it is directed at full force and I must confess I am fascinated by the Western genre. This may have been an A feature in 1950 but it is not in the same league of Westerns like ' Shane, ' ' Tension at Table Rock ' or the almost unknown ' Fury at Showdown. ' And all made by Anthony Mann. But this is a film worth watching despite the far too many ' easy ' deaths by gunshot and the saddening normality of it.
Review of Colt .45
