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A former deputy and a strong-willed widow are determined to stop a ruthless town boss.A former deputy and a strong-willed widow are determined to stop a ruthless town boss.A former deputy and a strong-willed widow are determined to stop a ruthless town boss.
Melvin F. Allen
- Deputy
- (uncredited)
Army Archerd
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Sid Barlowe
- Ross
- (uncredited)
Joe Benson
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
John Breen
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Bob Burrows
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough Dean Martin played unsavory types on occasion, this is the only film in which he plays an outright, irredeemable scoundrel.
- GoofsObvious stunt doubles in the fight between Dolan and Yarbrough, with Dolan's double having dry, straw-coloured hair compared to Dolan's (George Peppard) own hair being darker and, certainly, not dry.
- Quotes
Alex Flood: You killed him; you bury him!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Flamingo Rising (2001)
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Good Men Do Nothing And Too Much
Dean Martin owns 51% of everything in town, except former lover Jean Simmons' stage line. When he and his hired guns start squeezing her, she writes former marshal John McIntire. He shows up, but remains abed while George Peppard scouts out the situation.
This metaphorical western about the corruption of society by business interests makes use of symbolic values of B westerns, and balances the traditional B Western values of action with some decent speeches, with Dean Martin playing the darker edge of his screen persona in the midst of his Matt Helm era. Miss Simmons also gives a fine performance that reinvigorated her career. She and Peppard have a great drinking scene. Yet there are issues with this movie that are disturbing, both in the way that the film makers seem to have forgotten how to make a western -- the score by Don Costa is overly dramatic in a TV-Western manner that makes it seem that the events are less important than they should be within the movie, and cinematographer Russell Metty shoots the action sequences with a zoomed-in telephoto lens that makes those passages weightless.
The net impact is that the film makers feel the movie is simultaneously more important and less important than it is. Perhaps the only way to get this film made was to populate it with major talent in front of the camera. Certainly the actors take the subtext seriously. It's too bad the people behind the camera overburdened a good story with unnecessary technique, making this an interesting and watchable western, but little more.
This metaphorical western about the corruption of society by business interests makes use of symbolic values of B westerns, and balances the traditional B Western values of action with some decent speeches, with Dean Martin playing the darker edge of his screen persona in the midst of his Matt Helm era. Miss Simmons also gives a fine performance that reinvigorated her career. She and Peppard have a great drinking scene. Yet there are issues with this movie that are disturbing, both in the way that the film makers seem to have forgotten how to make a western -- the score by Don Costa is overly dramatic in a TV-Western manner that makes it seem that the events are less important than they should be within the movie, and cinematographer Russell Metty shoots the action sequences with a zoomed-in telephoto lens that makes those passages weightless.
The net impact is that the film makers feel the movie is simultaneously more important and less important than it is. Perhaps the only way to get this film made was to populate it with major talent in front of the camera. Certainly the actors take the subtext seriously. It's too bad the people behind the camera overburdened a good story with unnecessary technique, making this an interesting and watchable western, but little more.
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- boblipton
- Jul 11, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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