At times this movie seemed aimed towards kids but then there are things in the movie that don't seem age appropriate. For example, the barroom brawl: Nitro and the bartender are definitely played for laughs but Glenn Ford's fight is rather brutal. The message that obey the law until it gets in the way also makes me a little uneasy (of course our heroes were right in doing that but I still don't know). The cast is a good one for a B-western: Randolph Scott plays the usual stand-up guy, Edgar Buchanan and Raymond Walburn play their usual roles (except the fact that Buchanan's Uncle Willie isn't what he seems, is a little disconcerting). The only one that really doesn't work well is Claire Trevor, she didn't convince me as the town madam. The horse stampede was well executed and a clever idea. The movie moves along nicely and the romance does make sense, its just that westerns like this one always make me wonder who the intended audience was.
Review of The Desperadoes
