How does Lee Marvin see all that through his telescope?
Low-rent TV stuff with repeated shots and music cues all over the place, Lee Marvin blatantly just doing a favour, Charles Grodin totally mis-cast as a heavy and Lee J Cobb presumably desperate to get out of Eurocrime and back onto American screens.
Maybe Fuller's worst.
Not particularly historically accurate, so if you're after a proper biopic look elsewhere.
Awkwardly sits right in the middle of growing spaghetti popularity and the beginning of American western revisionism and immediately before the 1-2 punch of Peckinpah completely destroyed the old west with The Wild Bunch and Dennis Hopper wiped away the studio system less than two years later. All too often feels, looks and sounds like a standard 50s affair with Siodmak - absolutely the wrong director for…
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