Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Armand the cast makes difference in this case. the story, the end, the little tricks are old ingredients of genre. and performance, it can be only correct because it represents only part of machine. so,for not to be another western, this film search be a different game. the nice Audie Murphy gives all necessary nuances to his bad guy with good soul, Eddie Little represents ideal spice for a story of masks, using the Puck place and remembers from Lassie, but the key of film are Gia Scala in a splendid role and , sure, Walter Mathau.and this is the secret of this little film - the balance between humor and drama, the expected events in soft package. in same measure, good occasion to remember the "roots" of Henry Silva.

rooster_davis This was one of the few Audie Murphy Westerns I had not seen, and I was not disappointed when I finally got to view it. While it's a typical Western with some bad guys and good guys and people shooting it out, there are also a lot of light-hearted moments and some humor.Murphy shows up in town and is taken for a famous marshal and hired to be the sheriff. He is actually associated with some bad guys who plan to rob the bank but nobody knows this. The woman-friend of a member of his gang shows up in town and the pair end up pretending to be husband and wife to help cover some of the circumstances of their meeting.Matthau is the local judge and he is also sort of a foster-father to a young orphan boy named Jimmy. The judge eventually figures out who the new sheriff really is, and knows he is going to have to do something about him even though Jimmy has gotten attached to him. In an actually heart-felt scene, the judge tells Jimmy that someone who has grown up the way Murphy's character has, can never be any good and can never change. Jimmy has himself come from the same kind of circumstances. When the judge sees the look of hurt on his face, thinking that he also is destined to be bad, he says almost pleadingly "I didn't mean that. You know I didn't mean that." The boy who played the role of the orphan was really good - much better and more appealing in my opinion than many better-known child actors of that day or any other. His acting career consisted of only four roles however.At the end of the movie there is of course a surprise twist and I don't want to give it away, but I'll just say that I enjoyed it and I'll gladly watch it again. I've added it to my DVD collection.

RanchoTuVu A bank robber (Audie Murphy) assumes the identity of the sheriff who died accidentally while chasing him. A very light weight film trying to be a combo comedy western, a usually deadly idea with the exception of Destry Rides Again or a few others. Audie Murphy isn't very funny, and while Walter Matthau is, his role as a drinking judge and local leader of a town on a river, lacks any discernible wit. That leaves one with the story of a basically good guy who's done bad things given the second chance to redeem himself, as well as the saloon girl Gia Scala) who also gets in on the masquerade. A few good scenes here and there, and generally good natured entertainment, and a neat scene in the bar where a guy puts a cigar butt out in Murphy's whiskey, the film generally lacks excitement or tension, though the story had possibilities.

Ted Watson (tbrittreid) For a modestly budgeted, unambitious horse opera, this is as good as it gets. Audie Murphy's Western vehicles of the 50s don't command the respect of Randolph Scott's or Joel McCrea's, but they are just as entertaining. A few of them ("No Name On The Bullet," "Posse From Hell") have an unusual edge that makes them noteworthy, but this one simply transcends its limitations to be a damned good entertainment. Walter Matthau steals every scene he's in as an alcoholic judge, while Murphy's subtly nervous performance as the would-be outlaw pretending he's a respected lawman may remind one of David Janssen as TV's "The Fugitive." Audie reportedly was uncomfortable with romantic scenes, but here he handles some innuendo-laden dialogue with Gia Scala quite nicely. Henry Silva and Mort Mills provide some surprisingly restrained (for this sort of thing) villainy. The premise (good-at-heart outlaw is reformed by wearing a badge) was old hat, but the execution is great! Set your expectations for a medium budgeted Western with no pretensions, and you won't be disappointed. You may even be pleasantly surprised.