Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

MartinHafer A 58 year-old Gregory Peck plays a bank robber with a Scottish accent in the Old West. When the film begins, exactly what has already happened is uncertain. However, the Sheriff (Jack Warden) breaks in on some guys--shooting them both. One is taken prisoner (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), the other is dead. However, the third from their gang (Peck) gets away on his horse. When the Sheriff is taking the prisoner to another town for trial, Peck returns and shoots the Sheriff--escaping with Arnaz. But, as they make their getaway, the saloon keeper (David Huddleston) shoots Peck--hitting him off in the distance. But Peck and the Sheriff are both still alive--with Peck and Arnaz heading to Mexico and the Sheriff and his new Deputy (Huddleston) in pursuit. The plot is extremely simple and the only other factor that comes into play is that Arnaz plays a half-Indian--and the Sheriff is sure confused as to why anyone would risk their life to save "one of them".I read a few reviews that complained about Peck's accent. I honestly couldn't say whether it was good or not--it sounded fine to me but I certainly am no expert--even if I have been to Scotland a couple times! I am sure someone from the UK would easily detect any defects with such an accent! However, what I could tell easily was that the story was very, very slow and stark--and this was heightened by the lack of a musical score. In fact, the only reason I kept with the story was because it had Gregory Peck. All in all, a fair movie but that's about it.

Eric-1226 I think this movie is underrated as a western. Or maybe it's just under-seen, which is really a pity. With nice color photography, it's got some really great western visuals, a meaty storyline, a collection of disparate characters whose fates you really start to care about, and some memorable, quotable dialogue here and there. Jack Warden is excellent as a gruff frontier sheriff "just doing his job," as it were. He's a toned-down and more accessible version of Gene Hackman's over-the-top bastardly sheriff in "Unforgiven." Gregory Peck, playing a words-of-wisdom-spouting Scottish outlaw with a big heart, is really quite good with his Scottish accent (no, it's not perfect, but passable), and has some memorable lines. Desi Arnaz Jr. is quite the sympathetic character as a half-breed Kiowa Indian outlaw being brought to justice by the sheriff. The supporting cast is quite good, and oh.. that nasty little band of outlaw Apaches they run into is truly a scary lot. You can't help but wonder how many white settlers they raped, murdered and pillaged.All in all, the movie is packed with memorable western images and meaningful lines of dialogue . See it if you get a chance. I'd love for this movie to get more air time.

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) This film is about relationships, healthy, loving, sick, and about those who are incapable of any. Gregory Peck seems to have stepped right out of "The Gunfighter" if it would not be for the accent. When he tells Billy (Desi Arnaz Jr, excellent) what Ecclesiastes says about man not being alone he is telling the whole point of the film. Jack Warden as the Sheriff is a hard man who cannot relate to anyone. David Huddleston and John Pearce have sick relationships with their wives. Sian Barbara Allen has a great performance as the stuttering woman who lives like a slave of her husband. About halfway through the film the scenery looks like New Mexico, but then you realize the difference between the Israeli and the American desert. The Israeli scenery brings a type of beauty, not the real environment, but very appropriate for the film's mood somehow reminding of the scenery in "Garden of Evil" (1954). A film worth seeing.

jbuck_919 This movie gets broadcast so often that I am surprised there are no other comments. All the performances are excellent, the typical plot of pursuit of the outlaws is well handled, and the racism theme that would probably not fly if the movie were made today is realistically dealt with. The surprise is Desi Arnaz Jr. in one of his few roles. No great acting is required of him, but he does a very creditable job, and the already handsome young man is smashing in his dark Indian make-up.