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Director Andrew V McLaglen could always be depended upon to hammer out gruff, good-looking westerns from the most unpromising material. Here he saddles up John Wayne and a skilled supporting cast for a parable on the extent to which modern youth had been corrupted while America was away solving the problems of the world. As a political statement, it's reactionary and naive, but it nonetheless passes muster as a late Wayne vehicle, with the Duke looking every day of his 66 years as the absentee father out to teach villainous George Kennedy a lesson for enticing his teenage sons into crime.

Wayne, running to fat and covered in pancake, finds that even he has trouble with his kids in this rather slow Western.... read more on Time Out