A pleasurable spoof Western about a shy young college miss who tilts her pretty nose at outlawry after her father has been killed by a hired gunfighter. Her 'gang' consists of two pusillanimous outlaws who never fire guns on principle, and an all-American Indian. But the real centre-piece is Kid Shelleen, as drunk a gunman as ever fell off his horse. The Kid turns out to be a glorious character study which won an Oscar for Lee Marvin. Not a lurch, not a sway, not a whisky-soaked blotch on the face are missed in Marvin's performance. 'Your eyes,' exclaims the Indian. 'They're all bloodshot.' Growls Marvin: 'You oughta see them from my side.' The music is nicely in keeping, including Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye as two 'almost' poker-faced minstrels who tell the story. And I liked the rattlesnake noise the soundtrack uses whenever the villain, also played by Marvin (he has a silver nose because someone bit off his real one in a fight) is around. The colour photography is masterly.

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