So bad it's good?


This movie seems to be the repository of every Hollywood cliche. The sheriff is named Holmes--well at least his first name isn't Sherlock. I had to laugh until I was hurting when they hauled the body away in that station wagon, without even closing the doors on the back. I can just imagine some young child being emotionally scarred for life when this wagon goes through town, with the dead man's feet dangling out the back. And the guy in the wheelchair--too bad his arms didn't work, he should have had a white cat in his lap, petting it every time he said something foreboding. And as another poster has already said, matches and cigarette lighters cast flashlight-like beams. Oh, I almost forgot the dance scene. Where the sound of the dancers' shuffling feet was as loud as the music. Did they pour sand on the floor? Whoever did the lighting must have also been in charge of the sound. Don't forget the Indian character. Of course he was drunk, and it sounded like he went to the Jay Silverheels School of Acting. Are we supposed to think that in the mid-twentieth century American Indians still spoke like Tonto? So, is this just bad, or so bad it's good?


Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever.

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iwals, thanks for that! I noticed some of the things you mentioned while I was watching the movie. I thought they were odd, like the makeshift hearse, but none of those things made me laugh; not until I read your post. The way you described them made me see the humor where I had only seen oddity before. Thanks for the giggles. Laughing is good medicine even when one is not sick. Your post alone made watching the movie worthwhile.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

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Not a really good film at all, but not quite bad enough to get the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment, either. Lots of bad acting, cheesiness, and dialog out of some pulp potboiler. You nailed it with it's "the repository of every Hollywood cliche".

Driving off with the tailgate down on the stationwagen was hilarious. Maybe the guy was too tall to close it - and rigor mortis had set in? Ha!

Anyways, a 25 year-old Anne Bancroft is hot!

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