Friday, April 2, 2010

Many Rivers to Cross (1955)

Directed by Roy Rowland
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)

Innocuous western/comedy/romance set in old frontier Kentucky. Robert Taylor is the "Kentucky Rifleman", living off the land as a trapper. He runs into some Indians and receives a knife wound. Luckily, he is found by a father and daughter, who take him home to heal. The daughter, played by Eleanor Parker, immediately falls in love and spends most of the rest of the movie trying to get him to marry her, while Taylor tries to avoid it. Some unbelievably strained dialogue, horrible acting by Taylor and Parker, and episodic nature of the story doom this one.

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