Barry Sullivan of "Forty Guns" plays a buckskin clad lawman with a half-breed Indian son in director Michael Moore's hackneyed frontier western "Buckskin" who must clean up the town of Gloryhole, Montana. Meanwhile, Wendell Corey is the city slicker who owns this dusty little town and has built a dam to dry up the sodbusters and drive them away. The villain's plans appear to be working out nicely until Marshal Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) rides into the valley and on a crusade to bring law and order. The villain tries to bribe our stalwart hero, but Chaddock turns the money down cold. He has come to make a new start for himself after his Native American wife passed away from small pox. Furthermore, Chaddock is set on giving his own buckskin clad son a makeover into a white kid. Along the way, Rep Marlowe (Wendell Corey), tries to buck him. Paramount Pictures producer A.C. Lyles made this potboiler with six-guns in his usual style. He has resurrected several saddle sore stars for this 1968 production who made westerns in the 1950s. Joining Sullivan and Corey is veteran western character actor John Russell of the TV series "Lawman"; Russell went on to star opposite Clint Eastwood in "Pale Rider." He plays a vengeful, ex-cavalry officer named Patch for the patch he wears over his scarred face. He wants to kill Chaddock. Joan Caulfield is a dance hall girl who was once the town's school teacher. Lon Chaney, Jr., is the corrupt town sheriff that Marlowe keeps in his pocket.
"Killers Three" scenarist Michael Fisher's screenplay qualifies as predictable pabulum from star to finish with minor surprises. In other words, a couple of people that you don't think will bite the dust end up dead. The dialogue brims with clichés and sometimes these people wax loquacious. Half-way through the action, the grudge-bearing gunslinger named Patch changes sides before the big showdown. Marlowe has aligned the miners with him against Chaddock and the sodbusters and storekeepers. If you enjoy old-fashioned westerns (this one was lensed on the Virginia City set of TV's "Bonanza," then you will find this comforting and reassuring. Sullivan gives his usual amiable performance and Corey is dastardly as the well-heeled antagonist.
"Killers Three" scenarist Michael Fisher's screenplay qualifies as predictable pabulum from star to finish with minor surprises. In other words, a couple of people that you don't think will bite the dust end up dead. The dialogue brims with clichés and sometimes these people wax loquacious. Half-way through the action, the grudge-bearing gunslinger named Patch changes sides before the big showdown. Marlowe has aligned the miners with him against Chaddock and the sodbusters and storekeepers. If you enjoy old-fashioned westerns (this one was lensed on the Virginia City set of TV's "Bonanza," then you will find this comforting and reassuring. Sullivan gives his usual amiable performance and Corey is dastardly as the well-heeled antagonist.