Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Country: US
Technical: bw 85m
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon
Synopsis:
A Wells Fargo agent arrives incognito in a New Mexico town to investigate a series of stage robberies and becomes the victim of one himself. The masked perpetrator turns out to be an embittered piano player who has turned to crime in order to pay for lessons!
Review:
Untidily plotted independent Western, but there is freshness and wit in the detail, with a seasoned star breathing added life into an already bright script. It was certainly only in B features that you got imaginative touches like the scene in which McCrea talks a crooked rancher into owning more cattle than he has so that he can charge him tax on what he intends to rustle, or that in which a frontier girl fails to distinguish between villain and hero and offers succour to both.
Country: US
Technical: bw 85m
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon
Synopsis:
A Wells Fargo agent arrives incognito in a New Mexico town to investigate a series of stage robberies and becomes the victim of one himself. The masked perpetrator turns out to be an embittered piano player who has turned to crime in order to pay for lessons!
Review:
Untidily plotted independent Western, but there is freshness and wit in the detail, with a seasoned star breathing added life into an already bright script. It was certainly only in B features that you got imaginative touches like the scene in which McCrea talks a crooked rancher into owning more cattle than he has so that he can charge him tax on what he intends to rustle, or that in which a frontier girl fails to distinguish between villain and hero and offers succour to both.
Country: US
Technical: bw 85m
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon
Synopsis:
A Wells Fargo agent arrives incognito in a New Mexico town to investigate a series of stage robberies and becomes the victim of one himself. The masked perpetrator turns out to be an embittered piano player who has turned to crime in order to pay for lessons!
Review:
Untidily plotted independent Western, but there is freshness and wit in the detail, with a seasoned star breathing added life into an already bright script. It was certainly only in B features that you got imaginative touches like the scene in which McCrea talks a crooked rancher into owning more cattle than he has so that he can charge him tax on what he intends to rustle, or that in which a frontier girl fails to distinguish between villain and hero and offers succour to both.