The Winds of Autumn

It's an uneasy combo of "True Grit" and "Ma Barker" and of the two, as you might imagine, the later is more fun, especially when it features such masters of Hollywood redneck, psycho villainy as Andrew Prine, Jack Elam and, most gloriously, Jeannette Nolan. Indeed, the movie's best scenes center around these pieces of human flotsam, most notably the holdup in the cat house. Conversely, the scenes with the Quakers and the inevitably cute little boy out to avenge his family's slaying is, even though Chas. Pierce Jr. Is a decent actor, a bit on the enervating side (i.e. Lots of pretty scenery to distract you from the logorrea). C plus.