Academy Awards, USA 1959
| Nominee Oscar | Best Film Editing William A. Lyon Al Clark |
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Delmer Daves
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Twilight Time)
Boisterous, hard-living cowboy Glenn Ford unwittingly becomes partners with meek, untrained hotel clerk Jack Lemmon after accepting his money for a poker game. They set off to Mexico to buy cattle, with Lemmon also hoping to make up with the daughter of a cattle baron he is in love with. They have various misadventures, with Lemmon learning that life on the trail is nothing like he pictured. Lemmon finds his girl married and combined with his disillusionment with the cowboy life becomes bitter. When the opportunity to take over as boss of the cattle drive when Ford is injured saving him from Indians, he drives the men into the ground. However, after Ford saves his life a second time they reconcile. Ford and Lemmon are both cast against type. It might have been better with the roles reversed, better suiting their natural personalities. Instead, it is often awkward and loses credibility.
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