Cowboy star Tom Mix meets western legend Wyatt Earp in Hollywood - and they solve a murder together. Very much fiction, very much a concoction: if only they'd set it 15 years earlier than 1929, everything would have been right, not least the ages of the two men as portrayed here by Bruce Willis and James Garner (Earp died in early 1929). As it is, not much of it is believable, especially with the casting of Charlie Chaplin-type comedian (Malcolm McDowell) as the villain. And, although Willis and Garner carry the TV-style plot comfortably enough, it isn't often in a major film that you come across three main female performances as weak as those given here by Mariel Hemingway, Jennifer Edwards and Patricia Hodge. The chameleon Kathleen Quinlan is better company, but what the film needs is dynamism, pace and a sense of period. Not only does the director not supply these in sufficient quantities, but he has to cope with a corny musical score by Henry Mancini that intrudes on the action rather than underlining it. At least Willis and Garner give the venture a sense of grace.

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