Highly Overrated But Still Good

Better Late Then Never

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Cheapie western starring John Wayne as a cowboy who forms a group of singing vigilantes, slinging bullets and ballads across the West. Meanwhile his long-lost brother has saddled up with the wrong crowd. Nonsense from start to finish, and sadly never as much fun as the plot description makes it sound. It's dullsville. And don't even get me started on that ending! What was the point of the brother plot if it was going to end like that?

A debut western for John Wayne , enhanced by Olive films in 2012 with a new digital transfer. Lensed by Archie Stout on location, this western tells the story of two brothers, Wayne and Frank McGynne. Their parents are killed . One brother Mcgynne is taken by outlaws and Wayne grows up hoping to avenge the death of his parents and locate his lost brother. He forms a vigilante group and the story proceeds from there.Never dull, there are good performances from all involved. Well worth a view and a ****** out of 10 star rating.

. . . the New Founding Fathers who "purged" the American West of the "lawlessness" rampant in the mid-1800s due to the influx of murderers and rapists across the Mexican border. This very first "Republic" Picture actually spells out this now-politically incorrect message on-screen as WESTWARD HO opens. The first scene shows Real Life U.S. Vigilante-in-Chief John Wayne (whom director Vincent Sherman has testified would ride up and down Hollywood Boulevard on a motorcycle with his henchman Ward Bond, clubbing members of Tinseltown's LGBTQ community with ball bats, as if these victims were Canadian baby seals, secure in their belief that they'd earn "Hero Buttons" for ridding L.A. of "bad influences") being told by government officials that there was no tax money available to fund Amateur Night Vigilante Attacks. This doesn't deter Wayne's character "John" from rounding up every tenor and white horse in California in a bizarre plot to sing the crooks to death. Unlike these benighted 19th and 20th Century unfortunates, we of the Enlightened 21st Century have History's Greatest Deal-Maker, President-Elect Trump, to force Mexico to build a great protective wall at its own expense which probably will be patrolled by Vigilantes who will shoot first--then sing!

first, we got people singing a song like watching a play on a stage. then the funny things showed up one by one. by watching this 1935 film i was unable not to think about what the hongkong shaw brothers did to their Chinese kung-fu movies, always with stupid screenplays, weird attires, costumes, hairdos, make-up, terrible acting... pretentious and unrealistic dialog.....all of those horrible arrangements shown in shaw brothers kung fu movies were accidentally matched this pathetic western genre b movie. all the people in this pioneering westward movie wore nice, clean and ironed costumes, even in gunfights, good guys led by john wayne were riding on white horses, wearing white shirts, while the bad guys' horses were just a mixture of different colors. there were so many laughable and pretentious scenes and dialog in this horrible film.