What an fresh story: A banker's trying to get the widow's ranch; The good guy kills the local bad guy so the banker brings in a hired gun; the townspeople finally rise up to help at the messy showdown.
Manipulative and DD (deadly dull) TV-grade fare in every respect: clichéd dialogue, holes in the story (if Covingington is so tough, why didn't he stop the beating on the ship?), one-dimensional characters, no chemistry among the leads, hard but honorable Indians, and a hero that says "mam" as often as feasible.
And there's plenty of synecdoche: ridin, ropin, more ridin, mendin fences, herdin, ridin through cricks, herdin through cricks, lookin out over cricks, and then ridin through more cricks; then more ropin, ridin, fencin, buildin.
As with any TV or Disney pap, your ability to imagine is reduced and you end up with fewer brain cells. More reasonable Westerns include, Lonesome Dove, Open Range, Tombstone, The Unforgiven or even Conagher - at least Sam Elliott tries to act sometimes.
Manipulative and DD (deadly dull) TV-grade fare in every respect: clichéd dialogue, holes in the story (if Covingington is so tough, why didn't he stop the beating on the ship?), one-dimensional characters, no chemistry among the leads, hard but honorable Indians, and a hero that says "mam" as often as feasible.
And there's plenty of synecdoche: ridin, ropin, more ridin, mendin fences, herdin, ridin through cricks, herdin through cricks, lookin out over cricks, and then ridin through more cricks; then more ropin, ridin, fencin, buildin.
As with any TV or Disney pap, your ability to imagine is reduced and you end up with fewer brain cells. More reasonable Westerns include, Lonesome Dove, Open Range, Tombstone, The Unforgiven or even Conagher - at least Sam Elliott tries to act sometimes.