Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

MartinHafer This film begins in a Union prison camp filled with Confederate prisoners. Three of them (Joel McCrea, Barry Sullivan and James Whitmore) escape and eventually meet up with Confederate raiders. During the war, raiders were Southern soldiers who are a bit more like bandits and specialized in making fast strikes on mostly civilian targets in the North. In this case, the leader picks these three men to head west on an undercover mission. It seems that a wagon train is headed east...and there's gold hidden in some of the wagons. The plan is to use this gold to help finance the war. However, there are a few complications, Will Owen (McCrea) is a decent guy and his conscience bothers him about leading the folks into an ambush. Second, Jesse Wallace (Sullivan) is a bit of a scum-bag and Will needs to keep an eye out for him as well...especially since Jesse is much more concerned about making himself rich instead of helping his cause. Finally, Will likes these folks and has fallen for one of the women (Arlene Dahl). So what's to become of this secret plan?This is a pretty standard film done about a topic that's been covered quite a few times in other films. This isn't so much a complaint as an observation that it's not the most original movie ever made! Still, despite this, McCrea was such a wonderful actor in westerns that I was able to cut the film some slack. It's also very competently made, enjoyable and in full color and worth seeing if you like the genre. My only gripe is late in the film when Will tells everyone he HAD intended to lead them into an ambush...and never really explains why he was planning on doing this. His doing it for his Confederacy is far different than his possibly being a bandit since he'd just learned that the war was over!!!By the way, one of the interesting bits of casting here is Ramon Novarro as Don Antonio. In the 1920s and 30, Novarro was a huge star...handsome and on top of the MGM food chain. But with time and changing tastes, in the 1940s, Novarro made very, very few films and this is one of your rare opportunities to see the middle-aged actor.

ma-cortes MGM Western movie with glimmer Technicolor cinematography , impressive landscapes and including romance of the daring pioneers of the West . This is a good Western , plenty of action , shootouts , thrills and fist-play . It's a thrilling western with breathtaking confrontation between the protagonist , his enemies and savage Indians Pawnies . Late in the American Civil War, from an Union prison called Camp Benton, our handsome hero, a Confederate Sergeant called Will Owen (Joel McCrea) is imprisoned at a hard Northern jail , he is a highly respected Southern official . But he escapes along with Jesse Wallace (Barry Sullivan) and Clint Priest (James Withmore) . Soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, followers to leaders Bushwhackers as Quantrell and Anderson , such as as Keeley (Jeff Corey) and Bye (Ted De Corsia) , two roguish confederate rebels , both of whom have a war task for them who force them to act as "outriders" or escorts for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold among the personal possessions in the caravan of Don Antonio Chaves (Ramon Novarro) from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri . They are eventually able to convince Don Antonio to be his escorts or outriders . The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them begins to have misfortunes and misgivings . As they guard the caravan from marauding Indians and other dangers along the way . Meantime , Will Owen falls in love a beautiful woman named Jen Gort (Arlene Dahl) , a recent war widow, who is accompanied by her teenaged brother-in-law Roy Gort (Claude Jarman Jr.) . This Western is a superior outing because it displays thrills , emotion , shoot'em up , brawls , intrigue , riding pursuits and many other things . There is filled with action in the movie , guaranteeing some shots or stunts every few minutes . Interesing and moving screenplay by Irving Ravetch based on his own story . Here filmmaker Roy Rowland delivers a nice film , however he could be counted on to deliver solid "B" pictures which, at MGM, were often better than most other studios' "A" pictures . Brief character studio about three escorts or outriders , Joel McCrea/Barry Sullivan/James Withmore they became friends despite their differing personalities , until the inevitable final conflict . The highlights of the movie are the spectacular as well as violent getaway from Benton Missouri Camp and the sensitive dance between Arlene Dahl and the sex-hungry soldiers . Very good support cast such as James Whitmore , Ramon Novarro , Jeff Corey , Alex Montoya , Ted De Corsia and a young Claude Jarman Jr of Rio Grande and The yearling . Colorful as well as evocative cinematography by Charles Edgar Schoenbaum supported by expert cameraman Henry Jaffa . Adequate and atmospheric production design by Cedric Gibbons , MGM's usual , though also contains abundant matte paintings . Rousing and breathtaking musical score by Andre Previn who married Mia Farrow The motion picture lavishly produced by Richard Goldstone and MGM studios was well directed by Roy Rowland . He sharpened his directing chops at MGM with a series of shorts starting in the 1930s, then moved up to features in 1943 . Roy spent quite a bit of time at the studio, from 1943-51 and again from 1954-58 ; he had the good fortune to marry the niece of Louis B. Mayer and was the father of actor Steve Rowland . While not one of the studio's top-rank directors , he was a good professional who had a considerable success . Most were B-movies, but he occasionally handled such A-graders . His greatest hit was , of course , the fantasy movie titled The 5000 fingers of Dr T (1953) . Rowland made an action picture for independent release based on a Mickey Spillane "Mike Hammer" novel starring Spillane himself (Girl hunters (1963)) . He specialized in a variety of genres, including musicals : ¡Viva Las Vegas! (1956) The seven hills of Rome (57) , Two weeks with love (50) and dramas : Our wines have tender grapes 45 with Edward G Robinson (1945). He was also responsible for the tough, fast-paced Rogue Cop (1954), one of the few MGM films that could be considered "film noir". Roy was a Western expert , as the last film he made at MGM was a "B" western with Stewart Granger, Gun Glory (1957); besides , he filmed Bugles in the afternoon with Ray Milland and Many rivers to cross with Robert Taylor ; after which and then he traveled to Europe for a string of Spanish/Italian-made westerns such as Los Pistoleros De Casa Grande and Ley Del Forastero . His final film as director was a somewhat cheesy pirate movie (he was uncredited ; his Italian co-director Sergio Bergonzelli got sole credit) called El Tigre De Los 7 Mares and its sequel : Tormenta Sobre el Pacífico (1966). He was associate producer on Nathan Juran's Italian-shot Al Infierno, gringo (1969), after which he retired.

dougdoepke Confederate prison escapees plan to hi-jack a Union gold shipment and divert it to the South. Priorities, however, are complicated by a key rivalry over a girl and a temptation to just keep the riches for themselves.Better than average Technicolor western. For once, MGM's tendency to over-produce its horse operas gives way to a wise use of money for a western. Happily, glamour and glitz are kept in check, except for actress Dahl. Still, her wardrobe for a wagon train is not too outlandish. Instead, the production makes excellent use of its scenic Kanab, Utah, locations, along with a fine A-list cast and enough extras to make the battle scenes interesting. What grabbed me, however, are two storyline surprises that defy expectations. Plus, for once, battles don't just unfold willy-nilly, instead Owen (McCrea) thinks along tactical lines to gain an advantage. Sure, a hi-jacked gold shipment and a rivalry between sometime buddies (McCrea & Sullivan) are familiar plot devices. Nonetheless, it's a better-than-average script, with several good touches (e.g. Sullivan's loaded gun at the end).That river-crossing scene is clearly the movie's centerpiece and is impressively done. The torrent is big and bad enough to make the fording a genuine nail-biter. I'm guessing those were not easy scenes to film.Anyway, it's a fine McCrea western even though he gets less focal time than usual.

bkoganbing Joel McCrea did another western with a similar premise to The Outriders for Warner Brothers in South of St. Louis. That was three partners in a cattle ranch who all went their separate ways as a result of the Civil War. Here to the premise is three men who also go their separate ways as a result of the Civil War. Here the shared experience is prison camp. Joel McCrea, Barry Sullivan, and James Whitmore are Confederate prisoners who escape in early 1865. In effecting their escape they fall into the hands of a rebel guerrilla leader played by Jeff Corey.Being guerrillas these guys don't play by the rules. The trio either goes west to Santa Fe to act as Judas goats and lead a gold train into ambush or die right there. Even the always honorable Joel McCrea sees he has no options here.The rest of the story is how the conflicts internal and external are resolved and how the three escaped prisoners decide what course they have to take. Oh, and Joel McCrea meets up with Arlene Dahl and she kind of helps him along in the decision process.The movies never had a more honorable or stalwart hero than Joel McCrea. And if you've seen any of his films, fans will know that whatever he does it will be the honorable thing. It's a tribute to McCrea that if he insisted on always being the stalwart hero, he had the talent and personality to carry it off.It's familiar ground for Joel McCrea, but western fans will like the story and the gorgeous technicolor photography that captures it.