Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is so strange to find the flower of one's bountiful youth at the peak of Hubbard's Curve forgotten so thoroughly in my own lifetime, and I'm still long from dead.I read all the reviews and all the commentary threads & posts, incl stan who has it on DVD and the oh so insightful contrasts & comparisons with similar flicks and associated genres.Now if someone would just talk about the movie, other than repetitive spoilers. Like me. This movie might have made it to the theatre but that theatre was probably in Saskatchewan or Shreveport. This movie was made in Mexico, as in just across the border in pasture someplace between Tijuana & Tecate, better known as south San Diego, a favorite of Hollywood producers when their cast wants per diem and won't go to the high desert on the road to Vegas one more time.It was made at a very curious time. The Vietnam War had finally ended the year before, and hope was blooming that the spectre seen to include everything from redbaiting to censorship was possibly on the run from a restored mass common sense. As such, the brief bare female breast scene and dialogue of moderately vulgar epithets AIRED ON NATIONAL BROADCAST TELEVISION as an episode of ABC Movie of the Week in an effort to keep that waning franchise vital via casting itself as a purveyor of bold and daring content, at which it failed and was quickly forgotten as a hugely attended mass media franchise in the shadow of cable TV's subsequent meteoric rise.That no one has yet to remark on this insignificant landmark held by this film demonstrates to me that anything prior to Ronald Reagan as president is remembered no more than Truman at Yalta, a curiosity to be shoe horned into a lustrously cast period biopic.

In Old West Colorado during election time, a crooked politician has to deal with the ex-partners whom he double-crossed some gold out of. Screenwriter Richard Shapiro possibly managed to sell his threadbare script on the basis of its bawdy humor...but "Blazing Saddles" this is not! Shabby-looking enterprise with cheap sets and over-lit interiors does get a small boost from Lee Marvin as a cowboy con-artist. Marvin's rubbery face, exaggerated expressions and double-takes are both surprising and surprisingly funny. Oliver Reed (cast wildly against type as a half-breed Indian with VD) and Strother Martin as a wily old coot do some overplaying of their own, yet the film's energy doesn't make up for its lack of taste and general sloppiness. * from ****

This movie I'm fairly certain was rated PG, not R. A previous poster stated here that this was his first R-rated movie. I'm pretty sure this is inaccurate. I remember seeing this movie at the theater when it first came out; I was five years old at the time. I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that my parents would not have taken me to see it if it was rated R. This movie represents one of my earliest childhood memories of going to the theater to see a movie on the big screen(which obviously was the only way you could see movies in those days!), so it will always have a sentimental place in my heart because of that. But I really did love the movie itself; I had forgotten how much so until I saw it for the first time in ages recently on cable TV. I had forgotten how much of an absolute riot Oliver Reed's character was, and Lee Marvin and Strother Martin are particularly outstanding in this as well. I actually thought the musical score for this was excellent as well!

If you liked him as a comedian with Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou, >you'll like him even better with Kay Lenz. Also with Oliver Reed >(Doyle Lonegan in Sting II) as a half-breed. Robert Culp plays >the same guy he always does. You will, however, keep expecting >Strother Martin to comment any minute, "What we have here is a >failure to communicate." Five Stars out of five.