Review of Cahill U.S. Marshal

I'm glad Duke didn't bow out with this bit of hack work from A.V.McClaglen which doesn't bear comparison to even his routine Westerns. Names familiar from his John Ford days decorate the cast including the great Mr Hank Worden,but on the whole "Cahill - U.S. Marshal" doesn't add up to much. Mr George Kennedy is a bit of a pantomime villain,I almost expected him to disappear from every scene in a cloud of smoke like the Demon King. Duke's attitudes to racial minorities had been called into question and his answer in the movie was to inform an African - American prisoner that if he kills him it won't be simply because of his colour. Unfortunately the movie's more liberal approach is slightly spoiled by having Mr Neville Brand - splendid though he is - blacked up as a "half - breed". There are several stumbling - blocks scattered throughout the exposition of the plot that are better ignored. Nice to see "The Body" as she was briefly known cast as a Boarding House keeper with half - hearted designs on Marshal Cahill. I couldn't in all honesty recommend this untidy and unsatisfactory film,but as an admirer of the late Mr Wayne I don't have the heart to trash it either.