A pity Rock Hudson and Dean Martin were past their box-office peak when this film was issued in 1973, for it's above-average of its kind, thanks to thoroughly professional direction by George Seaton and an intelligent script by Theodore Taylor that's full of drily witty dialogue exchanges. I feel that if the two stars had intended it as their cinematic swan-song they could not have chosen much better: you may be reminded at times of another western, Guns in the Afternoon, in which Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea virtually said goodbye to the cinema. The two films also share remarkably good colour photography of the western countryside among their assets, in this case by the ever-excellent Ernest Laszlo. There's some exciting action, too, but that versatile and talented actress Susan Clark is again wasted, here as Hudson's wife.


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