Not the worst late western (late fifties; late in the genre) you can see. Good performances even if a somewhat silly adaptation of the Asphalt Jungle. What makes this movie remarkable, if only in the negative sense, is that it has one of the worst music scores of any film ever made. This is the classic bombastic cliché music background which as kids we would do as da-da, da-da, da-da-dum when we played. Apparently they just scotched taped various pieces of stock ( and presumably royalty free) music which might go along with the screen action (or might not) and it sounds like someone left a boom box on in the theater while the movie was running. One of a handful of films that should be shown in film schools in order to teach students how NOT to do it.
Review of The Badlanders
