This action Western has shootouts , a love story , musical numbers (in charge of a gorgeous Abbe Lane) and is quite entertaining . A formula film featuring the standard grand opening , an enjoyable change of scenery , dramatic problem-posing center and slang-bang climax , but a nice entertaining Western nonetheless .
It’s a medium budget film with good actors , technicians, cheap production values and pleasing results . Bright scenarios shot in Brazil and Riverside, California , though there are excessive stock-shots. The main asset results to be the change of scenery , but a familiar theme : homesteaders against cattlemen make this movie all but a little bit pedestrian .
Acceptable acting by Glenn Ford as a Texas cowboy gets embroiled with bad guys and finds himself in the middle of a range war . Commendable support cast as Frank Lovejoy , Cesar Romero , Rodolfo Hoyos and the gorgeous Abbe Lane , though Sara Montiel was originally cast for the role of Teresa and filmed some sequences in the Matto Grosso jungle .
Atmospheric musical score by Roy Webb , including agreeable songs ; being danced and sung by Abbe Lane and composed and conducted by her husband Xavier Cugat .
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Rate 82%/5.6
Western Action Adventure
Thank you for showing this film. Great picture and sound quality, too 😄
Give us Glenn Ford anytime. 👍
They break out in song at :53 minutes. I'm not sure why, but Abbe Lane was good to look at.
I saw Ford in a Holiday Inn parking lot in Statesboro, Georgia in the very early 70s while he was on location making a film. I now live in Texas. Thanks for the movie. Eaglegards…