An American Western; A story about a former Confederate officer visiting a copper town under the guise of a magician, goes to the defence of bealeagured locals who are being harassed by a local corrupt regime. Using his military skills, and negotiation, he has a plan to win the day. This is a busy but hardly memorable frontier-feud story of North-South disputes in a post-Civil War western mining town. En face Hedy Lamarr is beautiful and Ray Milland is charming but the mystery surrounding their characters does not amount to much and there isn't great chemistry between Milland's less than convincing lone ranging Southerner with saloon bar repartee and Lamarr's character and her absurd change-of-tune. Other characters remain undeveloped too but the colour photography is stunning, enhancing the action.
Review of Copper Canyon
