Excruciatingly bad photography, confusing editing and overwrought music are just a few of the flaws of this impossible to watch western. The characters are so poorly constructed that even if you could understand their motivations and sympathize with their plight, you find it impossible to really care about them. The film, made with both English and Spanish (poorly subtitled), may express the feelings of squalor and desperation, is a series of situations that never gel together for a comprehensive narrative, and the situations are so depressing that they make the crisis of the Ingalls family of "Little House on the Prairie" seem lighthearted by comparison.
Ronnie Blakely, Dean Stockwell, Scott Glenn and Freddie Fender (absolutely laughable as Pancho Villa) must have needed the work badly to accept the script as written. The little girl has such an annoying shrill voice that you have to wonder if she didn't know her lines and was dubbed by a cartoon voice over actress. The transfer to DVD is obviously bad pan and scan, but the film is so tedious that releasing a restored version would be of no use as no one would want to suffer through this again. I nickname this How the West Was Bland.
Ronnie Blakely, Dean Stockwell, Scott Glenn and Freddie Fender (absolutely laughable as Pancho Villa) must have needed the work badly to accept the script as written. The little girl has such an annoying shrill voice that you have to wonder if she didn't know her lines and was dubbed by a cartoon voice over actress. The transfer to DVD is obviously bad pan and scan, but the film is so tedious that releasing a restored version would be of no use as no one would want to suffer through this again. I nickname this How the West Was Bland.