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Director: Burt Lancaster
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From Time Out Film Guide
Lancaster's only film as a director is a slow-moving, lack-lustre Western in which he plays a Kentucky frontiersman who, travelling to Texas with his young son to make a new start, becomes involved with two women and a family feud. Matthau makes an impressively villainous debut (though the scene in which he bullwhips the unarmed Lancaster tends to be censor-trimmed), and Carradine is good value as a garrulous doctor; but in general the direction tends to get bogged down in not very interesting characters and relationships while neglecting to deliver the action.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Burt Lancaster
Producer: Harold Hecht
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn, Ronald MacDonald, Walter Matthau, John Carradine, John McIntire, Una Merkel full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 104 mins
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