- A feisty, beautiful widow bands together with three cowboy buddies to recover a cache of gold stolen by her husband and her attempt to clear his son’s name. It’s wide-open fun and dynamite excitement as The Duke meets his match in lovely Oscar-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Ann-Margret (“Grumpy Old Men”).Running Time: 92 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN Rating: PG
A feisty, beautiful widow bands together with three cowboy buddies to recover a cache of gold stolen by her husband and her attempt to clear his son’s name. It’s wide-open fun and dynamite excitement as The Duke meets his match in lovely Oscar-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Ann-Margret (“Grumpy Old Men”).
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April 27, 2008
#1
Although it is great to see Wayne seeing him is about the best in this film. I did not really care about these people riding left and right. It has to be something about the story, because the actors are a great bunch of people. I expect Wayne always to be real hero, but here it is not so. Take any other Wayne, even those of the 30′s rather than this one.
April 27, 2008
#2
One of the later Wayne westerns is pretty thin on action and excitement.It’s from the time where they more or less stopped making westerns – until the revival with Kasdan’s “Silverado”. This one is really clinging to a straw.
April 27, 2008
#3
Even though the Duke gets top billing and more screen time Annie’s the real star of the film. Make no mistake. I admit she is incredibly sensual and interesting dressed mostly as a cowboy throughout the film. I am crazy about her. I also loved the performance of Rod Taylor in this film as the talkative, slightly buffoonish gang member. Ben Johnson is fine as the slower talking philosophical cowboy, good contrast to Rod. The Duke is meant here to be the link between these characters. Wayne is doing here what Clint Eastwood did in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, purposely being the somewhat uninteresting central character and letting the supporting characters shine (though when it came to Ann Margaret that was inevitable). The plot is wonderfully complex, reminiscient of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid in many ways (little seen pursuers and all). Hard to be exactly sure who the bad guys are and who the law is. To the poster who said that the supporting characters’s past stories sound more interesting than the actual events well ok to you they do.
April 27, 2008
#4
I love this movie only because BOBBY VINTON is in it.I only watch the part’s that he’s in.I even have his part’s memorized.He’s the best! Not only is he a good singer he’s a excellent actor.I Had the chance to tell him that I watched it too.Bobby was thrilled that I took intrest in watching it.To all you bobby vinton fan’s out there I recamend that you watch it!!!!!!!!!!! He’s a very HOT and GORGEOUS cowboy!!!!
April 28, 2008
#5
Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: Color
Studio: Warner Studios
Video Release Date: September 2, 2003
Cast:
John Wayne … Lane
Ann-Margret … Mrs. Lowe
Rod Taylor … Grady
Ben Johnson … Jesse
Christopher George … Calhoun
Bobby Vinton … Ben Young
Jerry Gatlin … Sam Turner
Ricardo Montalban … The Pinkerton man
A proud widow, Mrs. Lowe (Ann-Margret), hires a Civil War veteran, Lane (John Wayne), to recover the money her late husband stole from Wells Fargo in a train robbery. With the assistance of his campatriots, Grady, Jesse, Calhoun, Ben Young and Sam Turner (Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton and Jerry Gatlin, respectively), they set out for Mexico to find and recover the gold, of which only the widow, who is guiding them, knows the whereabouts.
That’s the story, and the conflict comes in when her late husband’s associates try to find the gold also.
This is a good John Wayne Western. Not on a par with his best, perhaps, but very entertaining.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom…their care and maintenance
and other books