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Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.
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- 1 nomination
- Director
- Writers
- Teddi Sherman
- Robert Aldrich
- W.R. Burnett(uncredited)
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- TriviaAnita Ekberg and Ursula Andress did nude screentests, Hollywood's first. However, the Hays Board removed all nudity from the finished film.
- Goofs(at around 1h 20 mins) The movie is set in 1870. Joe Jarrett raises a mug that's marked on the bottom: Wallace-China-Los Angeles-California. According to Potteries of California, the Wallace China Company operated from 1931 to 1964.
- Quotes
Zack Thomas: They tell me them boots ain't built for walking.
Joe Jarrett: They ain't exactly house slippers
- Alternate versionsWhen originally released theatrically in the UK, the BBFC made cuts to secure a 'A' rating. All cuts were waived in 2002 when the film was granted a 'PG' certificate for home video.
- ConnectionsEdited into La classe américaine (1993)
- SoundtracksWhen The Saints Go Marching In
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Bloated star vehicle
Meeting each other on a stagecoach full of money where they both defend it from Matson's attack, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett immediately get off to a bad start when Jarrett steals the money. When the two later come up against each other in the town where Zack is in charge under the control of the corrupt banker Harvey Burden. However while they plot against each other, bigger forces in the town have a much darker conspiracy.
I watched this as a reasonable fan of the rat pack and their cocky, wise-cracking sense of humour that they usually bring to their films. However here that is almost totally lacking. With the exception of the opening 15 minutes, the film is almost totally devoid of fun. The film opens with Jarrett and Thomas against each other in a simple robbery, however it later meanders through cat and mouse games (which don't work) until it gets to the obvious conclusion (which is so lazy that it even ends with Martin saying `and, oh yeah, this is the end').
None of the action or dialogue is even remotely funny or fun. The whole vehicle had the same kind of movement that Martin's steamer displays heavy, sluggish and relentlessly moving forward no matter what, these things are not good qualities in a comedy western. I really wanted to like the film, but there was even too little of value for me. The two leads are OK but really have nothing to work with at all, they have one reasonable scene together at the start but from then they are just freewheeling along. Support from Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, Andrews, Buono and the Three Stooges is all pretty wasted and no one is really given very much to work with at all.
Overall this is an example of a poor film from the Rat Pack lifeless, self indulgent and lacking in fun or wit, made solely on the basis of the two stars being famous and thus bringing an audience with them when the film plays. A bit more wit and sparky dialogue in the script and the loss of some running time could have vastly improved what is really a pretty poor film.
I watched this as a reasonable fan of the rat pack and their cocky, wise-cracking sense of humour that they usually bring to their films. However here that is almost totally lacking. With the exception of the opening 15 minutes, the film is almost totally devoid of fun. The film opens with Jarrett and Thomas against each other in a simple robbery, however it later meanders through cat and mouse games (which don't work) until it gets to the obvious conclusion (which is so lazy that it even ends with Martin saying `and, oh yeah, this is the end').
None of the action or dialogue is even remotely funny or fun. The whole vehicle had the same kind of movement that Martin's steamer displays heavy, sluggish and relentlessly moving forward no matter what, these things are not good qualities in a comedy western. I really wanted to like the film, but there was even too little of value for me. The two leads are OK but really have nothing to work with at all, they have one reasonable scene together at the start but from then they are just freewheeling along. Support from Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, Andrews, Buono and the Three Stooges is all pretty wasted and no one is really given very much to work with at all.
Overall this is an example of a poor film from the Rat Pack lifeless, self indulgent and lacking in fun or wit, made solely on the basis of the two stars being famous and thus bringing an audience with them when the film plays. A bit more wit and sparky dialogue in the script and the loss of some running time could have vastly improved what is really a pretty poor film.
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- $4,520,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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