elis_jones
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I thought that I had already seen this western, so I wasn't expecting much when I tuned in to it recently. Maybe I had already seen it, but it must have been so long ago that the UK was transmitting television in black-and-white only, for I am sure that I would have remembered the dazzling colour photography if nothing else.
But there is so much else: a taut script, piling irony upon irony; fine character acting, not only from Randolph Scott but also from Lee Marvin, Walter Reed and Gail Russell. The ambivalence of Lee Marvin's character Bill Masters is a tour-de-force, especially the scene in which he takes a light for his cigarette from the smouldering remains of one resting on the lips of the man he has just killed.
A film that packs so much action and human interest into less than 80 minutes.
A classic.
But there is so much else: a taut script, piling irony upon irony; fine character acting, not only from Randolph Scott but also from Lee Marvin, Walter Reed and Gail Russell. The ambivalence of Lee Marvin's character Bill Masters is a tour-de-force, especially the scene in which he takes a light for his cigarette from the smouldering remains of one resting on the lips of the man he has just killed.
A film that packs so much action and human interest into less than 80 minutes.
A classic.