Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

vincentlynch-moonoi This is not one of "the great" Westerns, but it is well above average, and I recommend you watch it if you like Westerns at all.What are the negatives? Well, there aren't a lot, other than a degree of predictability. For example, it took 60 minutes for one of the good guys to get killed...something I had figured out within the first 10 minutes of the film. But, maybe it's difficult to write in really new angles when you are working in a well worked over genre.What are the positives. Well, clearly this is a big budget production. Some of the best sets I've seen in a Western. And, the cast is very good. The star -- Errol Flynn -- was still in his peak...handsome, fit, and suave; yet tough. I've never been overly impressed with Alexis Smith in films, but she's very good here as the love interest. S.Z. Sakall is around for laughs. Victor Francen is good as one of the sort-of bad guys. John Litel is very good as the hero's best friend. Paul Kelly is, as usual, the intelligent bad guy. Florence Bates is also here, and she was always quite delicious in her comic dowdiness.If there's anything about the plot that might bother you, it's the constant ego-maniacal comments about Texas. But aside from that, our hero (Flynn) is out to settle the score with cattle thief Kelly. Of course, we know how it will end. But in between there's a rather pleasant love story between Flynn and performer/singer Alexis Smith.I do need to comment on the HUGE ALL-OUT shoot out late in the film. To be honest, it is overdone. From the piano sliding down the stairway (you can actually see the tracks it slides on) to the impressive falls (although you can actually see the landing cushions), it's something to behold, but with mixed results. You might say it's a bang-up ending!It isn't that this film is that unique, but it is mostly done extremely well, and is very entertaining.

utgard14 Gunfighter Clay Hardin (Errol Flynn) returns to San Antonio after recuperating from wounds in Mexico. He's determined to bring evil cattle rustler Roy Stuart (Paul Kelly) to justice. Stuart, in turn, is determined to see Clay dead. To complicate matters there's a pretty singer (Alexis Smith) Clay has fallen for who goes to work at Stuart's saloon. Good chemistry between Flynn and Smith. John Litel is great as Flynn's sidekick; an atypical role for him. Paul Kelly plays the villain well. Robert Shayne, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Barrat, and Victor Francen are among the other quality actors in the cast. Enjoyable, if not overly original, Technicolor western. Sequence in the ruins of the Alamo is a highlight.

uwcharlie Unlike some of the other comments above, I will give this movie great marks for plot, main actors, character actors, story line, suspense, technical proficiency of the director and beauty of the scenery and sets. Admittedly, maybe not Errol Flynn's best, but nothing to be ashamed of either. I saw other comments that Alexis Smith dubbed her singing, don't know how that was known, but my opinion is that this was her own work. You never lose interest from start to finish. The colors in this Technicolor feature are the best I've ever seen of the time period. Great movie. I have it on VHS, would like to get it on DVD but it seems to have disappeared from the marketplace.

willahan This isn't the worst "Western" nor the best. But, while I am a 6th generation Californian, I have spent ten years in South Texas. Specifically, San Antonio. To the person from Minnesota who in 2005 stated that the "look" of the town of Cotulla and San Antonio was "good" in the art direction department, I must state that this movie is so totally filmed in "up in The Valley" of Los Angeles (You know, Thousand Oaks or northwards, although they state Calabasas) and so does not look like South TX (Much less Cotulla, never mind the very pretty town of San Antonio). Pearsall, Dilley and Cotulla are not the prettiest towns in So TX. I just kept seeing the rolling golden hills of SoCal. This was not South TX.(Still, John Ford kept filming Westerns "placed" all over the West in Monument Valley, UT and some of AZ. Thank god "The Quiet Man" really was filmed in Ireland and "On The Town," not a Ford film, I know, really was filmed in NY.) However, movie rating notwithstanding, please visit the real San Antonio. The Alamo is very small, but still, it is very moving. The Riverwalk is fabulous. Go Spurs Go. And pound for pound, never saw a city with more really good restaurants (that's why SA vies with, I think, Minneapolis as "fattest" city in US. Lotsa good food!). Would like to go to Chicago's summer food festival. See the TX Hill Country and SA in the spring when the bluebonnets are in bloom. Just beautiful. But the Cotulla and the SA depicted in this movie never reflected the real terrain or geography of the real area.Still, the movie is pretty fun to enjoy.