While I don't usually watch a steady diet of westerns I sometimes watch them for the actors and I end up liking them very much. And since this was one of Jack Nicholson's earliest movies, I knew that I had to see it.
Willet Gashade (Warren Oates) returns in his cabin only to discover that his brother escaped after accidentally killing a man and his child because he was in a drunken state. The next day a mysterious woman with no name (Millie Perkins) arrives and wants to be escorted in the desert. The journey starts and the more it progresses, the more there are issues: the woman refuses to reveal her true identity and the reason of her mission, and often shoots in the air perhaps for being noticed by an unseen somebody. After some banter the woman reveals about her mysterious chaser: cynical and vicious gunman Billy Spear (Nicholson). The trip continues and then there is the big confrontation with Willet that stops Spear hitting his hand with a stone but we don't see who died in the shootout.
At the beginning it looked promising but as it progressed not only it became like at least 1000 other movies of the genre but a bit confusing. When it was over I scratched my head and had to re-watch the ending because I didn't understood who was killed, how it unfolded and if it wasn't for this I would have given a higher score.
Only of interest for die-hard western fans or Nicholson completist but apart from these two categories of viewers, not worth bothering for.
Willet Gashade (Warren Oates) returns in his cabin only to discover that his brother escaped after accidentally killing a man and his child because he was in a drunken state. The next day a mysterious woman with no name (Millie Perkins) arrives and wants to be escorted in the desert. The journey starts and the more it progresses, the more there are issues: the woman refuses to reveal her true identity and the reason of her mission, and often shoots in the air perhaps for being noticed by an unseen somebody. After some banter the woman reveals about her mysterious chaser: cynical and vicious gunman Billy Spear (Nicholson). The trip continues and then there is the big confrontation with Willet that stops Spear hitting his hand with a stone but we don't see who died in the shootout.
At the beginning it looked promising but as it progressed not only it became like at least 1000 other movies of the genre but a bit confusing. When it was over I scratched my head and had to re-watch the ending because I didn't understood who was killed, how it unfolded and if it wasn't for this I would have given a higher score.
Only of interest for die-hard western fans or Nicholson completist but apart from these two categories of viewers, not worth bothering for.