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Information
- Year
- 1943
- Runtime
- 87 min.
- Director
- Charles Vidor
- Genres
- Romance, Western
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 619
- Checks
- 70
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 4.3% (1:23)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:0
Top comments
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dombrewer
An unconvincing and routine B-Western from director Charles Vidor starring Glenn Ford as "Cheyenne" Rogers, a bank robber who turns up to do a job too late and turns hero after reuniting with his old outlaw pal Steve, now Sheriff of the town, played by Randolph Scott as well as falling for the pretty stable girl Allison (a pretty and pleasingly forthright Evelyn Keyes). There's some fairly plodding comic relief from Cheyenne's reliably thick partner-in-crime "Nitro" Rankin (Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams) and Edgar Buchanan as the Allison's conniving Uncle Willy, a mail driver who is responsible for the robberies along with the town's corrupt banker. The tone veers awkwardly between tense showdowns, romantic interludes and a standard bar room punch up/shoot out with some incongruously broad slapstick from the bartender determined to save his precious stock. There's a notable stampede sequence and the Technicolor cinematography looks good, if uninspired, but this is a very minor entry in the canon of 40s westerns, as well as for Glenn Ford and Vidor who reunited for the classic "Gilda" several years later. Missable. 10 years 10 months ago