Presumably a kind of junior league spaghetti western was the idea here. At least, some boy has obviously seen a few Clint Eastwood films, as even the flashbacks explaining the mysterious stranger's mission are thrown in. For the teen-fan trade it's C Thomas Howell in the long coat and short cigarette amid a ludicrous plot about redneck villains who'd gun down defenceless innocent people if they didn't want them around. The action needs to be special to make it all work, but it's no more than routine and John Mark Robinson's direction could, even at 92 minutes, do with a deal of tightening up. Howell's about the best actor around and he's lucky he doesn't have too much to say, especially with dialogue penned by the same guy who not only wrote the songs, but provides only basic comic-strip characters to people his plot.

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