Johnny Reno Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Help the Aged

The Radio Times review says it all, really. The most interesting thing about this film is its cast, but they are all aged in their mid-fifties, and mid-fifties in 1965 is not the same as mid-fifties now, which is made clear by the parade of actors with puffy faces raddled by heavy drinking - Andrews, apparently, good actor though he was, being a boozer of legendary proportions - and their embarrassingly obvious replacement by stunt doubles during the fight scenes. This does not apply, of course, to the clean living Miss Russell, but she looks her age, and the film would have been much better had the back-story between her character and Andrews' acknowledged it, much in the way that Peckinpah's excellent 'Ride the High Country' used the advanced age of its two main actors to advantage. On top of this, the film, directed by an experienced Western hack of many decades, employs every cliche in the book - just listen to the background music when the Indians appear. Some historical interest, good to see Andrews, Russell and others - but that's about it,

sorry I didnt watch this

I ordered this by mistake so sent it straight back. It may be good so dont go by my stars.