My point exactly! It was , indeed, made just for fun. And there's only one point you and I disagree on- I think the comdey aspect was intended. Keep in mind, this was not an western effort of the caliber of John Wayne's "The Searchers" or Gary Cooper's "High Noon."
Randolph Scott was always good at delivering 'off the cuff' comedic lines and facial expressions, as he did in one of my favorite B westerns, "Return of the Badmen" - 1948. See IMDB User Comment below:
User Comments (Comment on this title) "Return of the Badmen"
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Decent B Western, 2 January 2003
Author: mschrock from United States
This movie surprised me. I don't care for Randolph Scott, and reading the description of the movie to include Billie the Kid, Youngers, Sundance Kid, and the Daltons, etc. This seemed like a joke. Clearly a bad movie to waste time on, but I couldn't resist watching it start to see all these headliner bad guys in one gang. I expected to rate the movie no higher than 3.....if I even made it past the first 30 minutes.
Turns out, the movie caught me off guard. In the context of a B Western, it actually works. Seeing Gabby in a 'non-side-kick' role wasn't the disappointment I expected. Seeing them "throw" bullets out of the guns (the classic snap the gun down and fire in one motion), and taking about 2 seconds from pistol blast till the bullet strikes the rock in front of the bad guy, was ok, cause that's classic B Western stuff, and after all this was B Western in the 1940's.
If you're looking for a good old B Western that doesn't have the Duke in it, try this out. I gave it a 7 in spite of myself.
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