I don't know who chooses movies for cable, but god, there has to be better movies out there than this one. I came here to see if anyone agreed, and found that most of the reviews agree. Overacting, underacting, poor direction, poor editing, actors have no motivation or at least it is not developed well. Oh well, nuff said about this loser of a film.
"We're going to need a bigger boat..."
I saw this when I was a kid and didn't like it, and the other night I watched it on Encore westerns and found it to be possibly Glenn Ford's worst film, it is terrible. George Hamilton was horrific, and Max "Jethro" Baer was like a wicked Jethro. The two Union soldiers part talking about wanting to be birds has to be about one of the screwiest scenes in any film ever made that was supposed to be serious. It is no wonder this film did nothing to help Harrison Ford's career, and that it would be another 10 years before he did make it big.
"It's the stuff that dreams are made of."
I guess it isn't just my opinion. I came on to see what the general opinion of it was also. Lethargy in living color. Glen Ford seems as if he doesn't care, George Hamilton just relies on being a pretty boy, Max Baer tries to break a stereotype by being crazy instead of just stupid, and Inger Stevens runs the gamut of emotions from A to......well, almost to B. (I know that line isn't exactly original, but it fits.
The acting is poor, but at least the plot is weak.
I watched the whole movie because Paul Petersen was billed as a star. Still hanging onto my schoolgirl crush from his days on Donna Reed, I guess. He had probably a dozen lines. What a waste!
shareJust saw this on cable, it's not very good that's true, but it has some good parts such as the breakout scene, the gunfights and the scene where Capt. Bentley tells Emily the war is over > rapes her. To me, the whole movie feels played out, as if by 1967 the whole western/Civil War genre had been done past the point where it was still interesting, where it was just cliches that had been much better earlier on.
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