This western is for me the best of Andy McLaglen, a mix up very well done between humor and tragedy, action and character study. This film made in the late sixties, remains in the pure fifties tradition, as the rest of the movies Vic Mc Laglen's son directed. You could have found John Wayne here. But the highlight in here is the first half hour, when you wonder who Jimmy Stewart's character is. Then you have the surprise to find out that he is the brother of Dean Martin's. I find this scheme very intellligent and very rare in a film. Finding out late who a character is has always interested me. The overall topic bank robbery at the beginning and then the bunch of outlaws fighting against a huge herd of Mexican bandits reminds me Sam peckinpah's WILD BUNCH, made one year later.
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