This doom-laden Western looks great under Philip Lathrop's colour camera but seems to go on all night. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal appear as weary as you may feel at the end of the trail, as they flee their boss Karl Malden's two sons after rather pointlessly robbing a bank. Seldom can a movie have wasted so much footage as this one: cowboys ride through snow and seasons and cornfields, or spew up blood in slow-motion when shot, while director Blake Edwards is taking more than two hours to tell an 80-minute story. The stars are adequate, and no one else in a talented cast gets the chance to be much more, what with Edwards' deadening direction. There are one or two nice things for viewers prepared to take it on: the cowhands dragged along in the snow by a wild mare, and a shoot-up in a 'bawdy-house'. They're gems in the middle of a desert of a film which, to add insult to injury, originally had an intermission.

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