Sometimes beguiling, but slow, talky and all too pat, this comedy-Western takes a while to warm to. Jason Robards is nicely in character as Hogue, a flinty old prospector who finds water, and his fortune, in the desert, after being abandoned there by two companions. David Warner gets a nice role as his friend, a self-styled preacher and has the enviable task of running his hands over the fulsome form of Stella Stevens, who is very good indeed as the town trollop who shacks up with Hogue for a few idyllic weeks. Rather folksy and determinedly 'of the people', the film's rewarding in parts, but the overall impression it leaves is of patches not quite properly sewn together.

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