So much average

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

You called that woman "Mrs. Moore" while tried every way to get under her skirt. What kind of a person you were, Mr. McComB? When a woman interested you at first sight, then you didn't give any second thought trying to get closer and closer into her marriage. Where's the decency of respecting other peoples' marriage and relationship. Why your moral standard were so low without any self restraint? If what we saw in this movie that a man didn't give a damn to other man's wife and didn't show the least respect to a woman's husband when men going to the West, then it might explain the reason why there are so many adulteries and divorces nowadays in America.When McComb decided to pay a visit to the silver mine, he saw Mrs. Moore was about to drive off on her wagon, he just jumped onto it. Funny scene just happened at that moment, Mrs. Moore reproached him: "What do you think you're doing?" But even before he jumped onto the wagon seat, she already moved her hips aside, giving more room to this guy who she claimed she despised and disgusted from day one when they met on the river steam boat. If she really disliked him, when this guy tried to jumped onto the wagon seat, the natural reaction should have been firmly sat either on the spot or even shuffled more to her left, to render even less space and room for him to jumped on the wagon. But what we saw was when she saw the guy suddenly jumped on, she immediately moved her buttocks to the right, giving him more room to sit down. No wonder so many men interpreted women's "NO!" actually means "YES!", just a pretentious unreal gesture. Again, no wonder so many women nowadays betrayed their husbands and marriages.This film so far as I saw it is just a boring one dimensional and predictable one-way developed Western movie with the typical annoying Walter Disney cartoon movie like soundtrack that synchronized and matched every movement from the first scene to the last. But what bothered me most is the shameless low moral standard of McComb.

This movie is a bit of a downer. The plot is hardly upbeat. It is a pessimistic story. Pessimistic stories can be engrossing-look at "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" for example-but, here, not all that much interesting happens. The performers do their usual shtick.. Sheridan, Bennett, and Mitchell are exactly the people you expect them to be, based on countless other movies. No great disadvantage, but no real advantage either.Flynn is the main problem, but the problem is not with his looks. He appears older but still fit and handsome. He reads his lines and does his character well enough; his character is bitter and angry and cynical. But something very important is missing. The character is in no way likable. He is without humor, and, except for anger, without any juice, without any elan, without any positive emotion. We don't sympathize with him. We don't care if he repents.Flynn looks unattractive because he plays an unattractive character. The movie has only a modicum of entertainment value primarily for this same reason.

A more mature western from a Stephen Longstreet novel traces the career of a rather corrupt adventurer (Flynn) who stops at nothing to assure himself of wealth in a rough and tough gambling town. He chases an attractive woman (Ann Sheridan) who becomes a widow fast when her husband is allowed to stray into Indian territory while they're on the warpath. He makes all sorts of deals to increase his wealth, betrays others right and left and refuses to heed the warnings of his drunken pal (Thomas Mitchell). He only reforms at the last minute, in time for a happy ending. Much of the story stretches credibility a bit, especially when his drunken pal goes on to run for senator.The Flynn-Sheridan combo makes the tale bearable but it's a little too long for comfort. Technicolor would have bolstered the handsome production values and given the film the A-production look it strives for. Evidently, Warners was afraid to give Errol the benefit of technicolor for this particular western.Flynn gives an uneven performance--in some scenes subtle and convincing, in others seeming not to care. He's still handsome here but beginning to show signs of hard living. Ann Sheridan is her usual feisty self but their strained relationship at the start is a sure fire sign that they will soon be paired romantically.No more than a conventional western yarn with some serious overtones, but it could have been so much better.

Directed by Raoul Walsh, who undoubtedly was one of the maestros of the western genre, Silver River hardly can be called one of director's best works. It was the last Walsh's film made with Errol Flynn, and the only one they made together that hadn't achieved success at the Box Office. The story of Silver River is based on a novel by Stephen Longstteet, but it's also an apparent `western' retelling of Bible's story of King David. The film begins at the time of battle of Gettysburg during American Civil War with a quite remarkable chase sequence where the wagon of Captain of the Union Army Michael McComb (Errol Flynn) is chased by Confederate soldiers who are after the 1 million $ of Union money destined to be paid to the soldiers. In order to avoid that the Confederates take the money, McComb decides to simply burn it. As a consequence of this act, he's expelled from the army. An unscrupulous adventurer, McComb moves to the silver mine town in the west, where he quickly becomes rich and powerful mines' owner along with his partner Stanley Moore (Bruce Bennett) controlling all the town's industry and banks. Nothing can stop his greed and ambition and he further rises to power and an enormous wealth, promptly sending his business partner to death, marrying his beautiful wife Georgia (Ann Sheridan) and becoming the only master of the town and one of the most influential and rich men in the state. But his triumph doesn't last for a long time for his achievements tend to be impermanent as everything in this world, so by the twist of fate he finds himself again on the bottom of the well losing everything. Quite an average western with nothing particularly good or particularly bad about it, thou in my opinion worth watching, but don't expect to be much entertained by it or you might be very disappointed. 7/10