Two cousins - one an ex-con and the other a law officer - compete for possession of a famed repeating rifle.Two cousins - one an ex-con and the other a law officer - compete for possession of a famed repeating rifle.Two cousins - one an ex-con and the other a law officer - compete for possession of a famed repeating rifle.
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BarBara Luna
- Meriden
- (as Barbara Luna)
Rico Alaniz
- Mexican
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDan Duryea and John Doucette also appeared in the original 1950 theatrical version, of which this is a remake.
- GoofsAfter his first shot at the nail in the competition, Dakin McAdam (John Saxon) levers another round into the chamber and then shoots three times in a row without levering another round or re-cocking it.
- ConnectionsVersion of Winchester '73 (1950)
Featured review
Tepid Remake
Not unwatchable, but close to it. I agree with malcomgsw, this pales in comparison to the classic from 1950, one of my personal favorites from any genre. The changes to the plot do not improve upon the original but overly complicate it - in this case less is more. John Saxon gives the best performance here, making the most of a thin script. Saxon is good at playing creeps, see him in "The Appaloosa" with Brando. Tom Tryon gives a wooden performance, shortly before giving up acting to become a writer. It was gratifying to see Dan Duryea from the earlier film, but his turn here seems tired, while in the original he was one of the more memorable villains in screen history. John Drew Barrymore's hippie character is unusual, but out of place in a western, kind of like Donald Sutherland in "Kelly's Heroes". All in all, an inferior remake of a superior film. I would, however, take issue with malcolmgsw's comment that some IMDb contributors seem to "want to eulogize the guns that are featured in films rather than dwell on their harmful consequences". We can of course, dwell on anything we want to, but while we're dwelling, what about the people living on the frontier whose lives were saved by having firearms nearby? Just saying.
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- keithhire
- Jan 8, 2014
Details
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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