James Neilson directs James Stewart, Audie Murphy and Brandon deWilde in this western about a former railroad security man who goes up against his little brother’s gang to get his old job back. 

Convulted and daft, even in its simpler moments, though colourful to watch. A big mess of cowboy thriller that includes way, way too much ensemble, a heck of a lot of accordion playing from a subdued Stewart, a security expert hiding the payroll in the youngest gang member’s lunchbox and much diving n’ shooting around an abandoned mine entrance. It’s a lark occasionally, I suppose, if you can stop yourself from repeatedly asking “What the fuck am I watching?”

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