This is How Movies Should Be Made

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

THE TRAIN ROBBERS is another solid John Wayne adventure, not one of his best stories but certainly watchable enough. It's a film where you can just sit back and enjoy both the ruggedness of the scenery and the main actor, the performances of the recognisable supporting cast members, and the regular action bits with all of the shoot-outs, horse riding, and fist fights you could want. These films are neither the best nor the worst of the genre; they're merely pretty good, and pass the time ably enough.Wayne leads a posse of cowboys who are tasked by a beautiful widow to receive a missing gold shipment located on the far side of the desert. The film follows their journey through a hostile terrain as they face pursuit by the dedicated Ricardo Montalban and battles with various murderous bandits. There's a heck of a lot of horse riding here if that's your thing. Wayne is well supported in this one by a fading Rod Taylor (little seen after the 1960s), a hardy Christopher George, and the reliable Ben Johnson. Ann-Margaret does quite well in the rather thankless widow role.

Rather routine but very well made Western - with touches of both humor and heart - starring The Duke as Lane, who, with his buddies Jesse (Ben Johnson) and Grady (Rod Taylor) and three other men, decide that they will help out a widow named Mrs. Lowe (a ravishing Ann- Margret). A long time ago her husband had participated in a major gold robbery, and now she wants the long-hidden gold recovered and returned to the bank in an effort to clear the guy's name. The group embarks on a somewhat treacherous, if not epic, journey to their destination, sometimes fighting amongst themselves along the way.Western expert Burt Kennedy wrote and directed this entertaining movie. It's got enough laughs, poignancy, action, and suspense to make it a good viewing. There are plenty of gorgeous vistas (and matte shots by Albert Whitlock), all wonderfully photographed by cinematographer William H. Clothier, in his final feature film. The story is really nothing truly special, but it holds your attention for a decently paced 92 minutes. Certainly the opening credit sequence does have a very tense, watchful quality going for it. The main asset is an array of engaging performances: The Duke is typically commanding, Johnson and Taylor very amiable, Ann-Margret quite appealing. Rounding out Lanes' gang are Christopher George as Calhoun, singer Bobby Vinton as Ben Young, and stuntman Jerry Gatlin as Sam Turner. Ricardo Montalban makes a few fleeting appearances as a mysterious character whose presence is explained at the end of the picture. And the big reveal is worth a chuckle.This may not be a great film of its kind, but it is a good one.Seven out of 10.

Lane is a drifting man in the Wild West, with a gang of several war buddies and some new hires, including a young man he managed to get out of a life of crime. Mrs. Lowe is a woman who tells of a husband who was part of a gang of ten robbers who stole $500,000 from a train years ago, and the husband and two others were killed, but not before hiding the gold in Mexico. Lane and company go with Lowe through wild lands to Mexico, with another gang of horsemen in pursuit-plus a mysterious well-dressed man who follows everyone else.The movie has an unusually low amount of violence and shooting, but most of all a logical but shocking twist at the end. I won't give it away. See the movie.

. . . into the Mexican desert, led by John Wayne and Ann-Margret. Without the benefit of his TIME MACHINE, Rod Taylor--one of Wayne's two geezer buddies among the train robbers--confesses that he couldn't get it up on his last bordello visit. When Ann-Margret, posing as "the widow Lowe," proposes to Wayne's character, he rejects her by saying that "I have a saddle older than you are." Ann-Margret could have replied that she was more concerned about the age of John's long-johns, since her alleged single mom status is totally bogus, and she's actually a hooker named "Lilly" (with two "L's"). No doubt Wayne's "Mr. Lane" doesn't want to get saddled with the widow lady's (non-existant) six-year-old son, since he takes off after Lilly like gang-busters as soon as he learns that she's an unattached "sadder but wiser" gal. Wayne dynamites the entire town of "Liberty, TX" here, since during the years after he headlined a flick titled THE ALAMO somebody finally explained to him that Crockett & Co. were actually dying to RE-ENSLAVE the Blacks of Mexico's Texas Province (who were as free as Jim Bowie and Sam Houston before Davey swaggered along).