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How long can friendship last?
Two charismatic men, Rock Hudson and Dean Martin, act very well in this film as two friends, who grew up together, always helped one other, bought a ranch together, and did nothing apart until Hudson married and Martin left town. Several years later, Hudson becomes the town sheriff, while Martin deteriorated as a drunk and robber. But, as is usual in his films, Martin is very likable, at least to most people.

The film opens with Martin and three fellows robbing a train. Martin didn't know that his friend was the local sheriff. When the five thieves are alone, Martin robs the four of the money from the heist, and kills one in self defense. Conscientious and mustached Hudson, who is so tall in this film that he has to duck when he moves from room to room, reluctantly goes after his friend to bring him to justice. He turns down a posse, afraid that one of the posse will kill Martin. Instead he takes trackers with him, Indians who are also friends from youth, who also like...

"Angels With Dirty Faces" out west
Boyhood pals Rock Hudson and Dean Martin grow up to live on opposite sides of the law in this entertaining Western that is a sort of variation on the theme of 1938's "Angels With Dirty Faces" with Martin taking over for James Cagney and Hudson stepping in for Pat O' Brien. Although, like a lot of Universal "product" at the time, it has TV stamped all over it (and both of the stars were headlining NBC shows during this period), and it was probably intended as nothing more than a fulfillment of a feature film clause in Hudson's "McMillan and Wife" contract with the studio, it somehow reaches beyond its modest beginnings to become something a little deeper and of higher quality than was perhaps intended.

Different western
A very fine western,. Suspensful. A different western, but still classic in many ways. Dean Martin is truly great in this one. It is a very sad movie also. As a viewer you get very much engagedand involved. I came to hate Rocks Hudson's character, or not the charatcter itself but the way he behaved, his foolish stubbornes.

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