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*Plot and ending analyzed*
This is an altogether enjoyable Western movie. It looks exactly like an American Western, but is actually a joint European production. Stalwart Canadian actor Rod Cameron makes a fine presentation playing the traditional role that he was known for in his Westerns. The direction, the beautiful color of the film, and the music is very good.
Rod Cameron plays a sheriff who is getting married when two brothers rob the bank. He goes after them in Mexico, finds them quite easily, and then has to bring them back alive. Meanwhile, some bandits are informed of the bank loot that he is hauling back. They decide to try to get it for themselves.
Some of the writing and the story is not generally believable, especially when the bandits fail to kill them. Also when the sheriff quickly lifts up both brothers into an above-room storage loft before the Mexican law arrives and they don't even bother to check it, and when they easily cross the desert without water, and when one of the brothers gets a bullet taken out of his shoulder and suddenly he's riding a horse again. Still, it's hard to dislike the movie.
Grade: C+
*Plot and ending analyzed*
This is an altogether enjoyable Western movie. It looks exactly like an American Western, but is actually a joint European production. Stalwart Canadian actor Rod Cameron makes a fine presentation playing the traditional role that he was known for in his Westerns. The direction, the beautiful color of the film, and the music is very good.
Rod Cameron plays a sheriff who is getting married when two brothers rob the bank. He goes after them in Mexico, finds them quite easily, and then has to bring them back alive. Meanwhile, some bandits are informed of the bank loot that he is hauling back. They decide to try to get it for themselves.
Some of the writing and the story is not generally believable, especially when the bandits fail to kill them. Also when the sheriff quickly lifts up both brothers into an above-room storage loft before the Mexican law arrives and they don't even bother to check it, and when they easily cross the desert without water, and when one of the brothers gets a bullet taken out of his shoulder and suddenly he's riding a horse again. Still, it's hard to dislike the movie.
Grade: C+