The Films of Burt Kennedy
The Canadians
Mail Order Bride
The Rounders
The Money Trap
Return of the Magnificent Seven
Welcome to Hard Times
The War Wagon
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Young Billy Young
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (February 3/07)
Lightweight almost to the point of distraction, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys stars Robert Mitchum as James Flagg - an aging Marshal who must team up with an old foe (George Kennedy's Big John McKay) after learning of a feared outlaw's (David Carradine) plans to rob a local bank. Although Mitchum and Kennedy are quite good together, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys remains strangely uninvolving throughout its mercifully short running time - a problem that can be primarily attributed to the overwhelmingly fluffy vibe that director Burt Kennedy has hard-wired into the proceedings. The filmmaker's ill-fated decision to emphasize the more comedic elements within Ronald M. Cohen and Dennis Shryack's screenplay certainly doesn't help matters, nor does the inclusion of a slapsticky, egregiously frenetic finale that finds virtually all of the movie's characters chasing a runaway train. It's clear that everybody involved with the production had a great time making it, but that simply doesn't disguise the film's inherently superfluous nature.
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The Train Robbers
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All the Kind Strangers
The Killer Inside Me
The Rhinemann Exchange
Wolf Lake
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
The Wild Wild West Revisted
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Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
The Trouble with Spies
Once Upon a Texas Train
Where the Hell's that Gold?!!?
Big Bad John
Suburban Commando
Comanche