Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Boring, long, and too preachy.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

You know, I really can't complain about most of the acting in this film. Clint Walker, Anne Francis and the always wonderful Vincent Price do their parts very well, and individual scenes are very well shot and acted.The setting was the Old West coming to an end, and the people who made it finding it hard to adjust to more "civilized" times. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" hit on these themes the same year and a lot better. This was convoluted, at best.WHere I think this movie lost the war was in the editing room, where someone had to take all these scenes, and string them together in a coherent movie. A great example is the opening of the film, where there's this elaborate prison break in a military prison involving hiding in caskets brought in for a hanging. And then we never see those characters again (I don't think) and they have nothing to do with the rest of the plot.I think part of the problem was Walker himself. He comes off as such a nice guy that you don't believe for a moment he killed 12 people. Or it was 12 complete misunderstandings.Vincent Price is pretty good in this. While he's mostly remembered for horror films, they only comprise 25% of his credits. He did a lot of roles like this and he did them well. Anne Francis is great as a liberated woman trying to reform a fallen man.What hurts the movie is Paul Hampton as the young gun, Billy. Honestly, his performance is so over the top, so grating and so silly, it just ruins the rest of the movie. One wonders why the more experienced actors didn't tell him to ratchet down a bit.Now that I've checked the spoiler box, let's get to the ending. A "Lawyer" who has been seeking Kane out throughout the whole movie shows up at his ranch where he's living a nice life with Anne Francis, and then shoots him in his front yard because he killed his father 20 years before.I think this is part of where the western was trying to be "Daring" and "Bold" instead of being a conventional western. But it just didn't fit because the rest of it WAS a conventional western.Final point, reading everyone else's comments. Yes, the music was strange and totally inappropriate for the scenes it was used in.

See it – "Even the fastest gun can be beaten. Things are different when the target can shoot back." In this largely unknown western, Clint Walker plays a reformed convict who vows never to use a gun again. Things change when he has trouble finding a job and agrees to become the main attraction of a traveling wild west show. But when the star trick-shooter gets jealous, there could be trouble. This is one of the most unique westerns ever made. It has a great story, a smart script, and a shocking ending. The only problem is that there is a gunfight at the beginning and at the end and nothing in between. If you get bored easily, stay away from this one. Otherwise, enjoy a one-of-a kind western.

More Dead Than Alive turns out to be a surprisingly entertaining and fairly well-acted B movie.Clint Walker gives his typical "gentle giant" performance as Killer Cain, a convicted murderer who is released after 18 years in prison. After a senseless prison shootout in the beginning of the movie, you expert this film to be nothing more that a "shootem-up". However, once Walker's character is released from prison, the movie becomes a well-acted drama about such topics as prison reform, parole, murder, hero worship, forgiveness and the desire for fame.More Dead Than Alive's best performance is from Horror King, Vincent Price as Dan Ruffallo, a carnival barker with a traveling gun show. It's one of Price's best latter career performances.The kicker in More Dead Than Alive is the shocking surprise ending. So, if you're a fan of Clint Walker or Vincent Price, More Dead Than Alive is the film to see.

Yes, this is a change of pace from the standard American western. Instead of the usual action and movement, we get a lot of dialog exchanged in enclosed places, as if this were a TV drama from the early 1950s. While the results aren't bad, they're not recommended, either, which is unfortunate since there are ingredients here for a good movie, and the eclectic cast is better than average. In what other movie can you find "Cheyenne," (Clint Walker), "Dr. Phibes," (Vincent Price), "Tarzan," (Mike Henry), and "Altaira" from "Forbidden Planet," (Anne Francis)? Incidentally, while Clint Walker and Mike Henry possessed two of the finest physiques ever to strut across the silver screen, neither man takes his shirt off in this movie. What a waste!