This western is among my favorites of the late sixties, the transition between the old western genre of the John Wayne era - forties, fifties and early sixties, which resume in the early seventies with Burt Kennedy and Andy McLaglen movies - and the Monte Hellman and Sam Peckinpah golden period. You can put this disenchanted western in the same batch as HOMBRE, MAJOR DUNDEE, HANG EM HIGH, HUNTING PARTY, WILD ROVERS, CHATO'S LAND, THE LAWMAN, THE PROFESSIONALS, RIO CONCHOS, and so on...The kind of stuff which John Wayne would have never accepted to play in; though, I admit he gave us THE COWBOYS and THE SHOOTIST, two films not on the fifties spirit, nothing to do with RIO BRAVO soul. Downbeat at the most. The other westerns Wayne played in during this period, were close to the old genre schemes. Well, sorry for those side notes, folks, now back to this movie. I won't add much, but I noticed that no user had pointed out the camera work at some moments, such as the fight scene between Peppard and Pickens, near the barn. The camera angles, shot behind some furniture, weird, bizarre angles, which reminded me THE APPALOOSA, with Marlon Brando and John Saxon.
Review of Rough Night in Jericho
