Hedy Lamarr never warmed me as a movie star. She's a beautiful block of ice, able to photograph beautifully and pose in outfits of dating back to the biblical era to modern times, but we're not talking about modeling here: we're talking about giving a performance. Her sultry stares as Tondelayo were unforgettable, and she did manage to be enticing as the seductive Delilah. But for the most part, she simply reads lines rather than creates a character and never allows the camera into her heart, a definite flaw in a movie actress. Yet, she managed to last past going to the Casbah for close to two decades, so something must have been there that I'm not seeing.
This western is as dull as her performance, dealing with saboteurs of copper mine workers. They want help from alleged civil war hero Ray Milland who denies being whom they claim he is. But when he shows up anyway, it's obvious that he's hiding his identity for a reason, taking on the bullies with no stopping for a break.
The bad guys are MacDonald Carey and Lamarr, who seems to have a secret agenda of her own. Is she really on Carey's side, or playing him in order to help the other side? That's where this film fails to convince and become anything less than a train wreck. A fine supporting cast including Mona Freeman, Percy Helton, Frank Faylen and as a fly swatting saloon keeper, a colorfully made up Hope Emerson. A few good action sequences along the way help keep this moving, but it's like many others I've seen which did it better with an interesting story, which this lacks.
This western is as dull as her performance, dealing with saboteurs of copper mine workers. They want help from alleged civil war hero Ray Milland who denies being whom they claim he is. But when he shows up anyway, it's obvious that he's hiding his identity for a reason, taking on the bullies with no stopping for a break.
The bad guys are MacDonald Carey and Lamarr, who seems to have a secret agenda of her own. Is she really on Carey's side, or playing him in order to help the other side? That's where this film fails to convince and become anything less than a train wreck. A fine supporting cast including Mona Freeman, Percy Helton, Frank Faylen and as a fly swatting saloon keeper, a colorfully made up Hope Emerson. A few good action sequences along the way help keep this moving, but it's like many others I've seen which did it better with an interesting story, which this lacks.