When Flagg and McKay are running along the roof of the train, the view from inside the train shows their shadows on the cliff wall beside the tracks level with their actual position on the roof, as though the sun were nearly on the horizon throwing their shadow straight onto the cliff wall directly behind them.
But when the view switches to overhead on top of the train, their shadows are directly below them as though the sun were directly overhead.
This same pattern is repeated several times, camera overhead showing their shadow directly below them, then inside showing their shadows on the cliff wall out to the side.
When the car is left on the tracks, and the train hits it and breaks it apart, as it flies apart it is clearly just painted wooden sections fastened together on a frame to look like a car.
There is no engine or drive train or interior, no seats or glass, and the wooden pieces can clearly be seen.
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys is directed by Burt Kennedy and written by Dennis Shryack. It stars Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise, Lois Nettleton and Douglas Fowley.
This film just doen't a genre to fit it. It's far too slapstick to to be taken seriously and has too serious a theme to be ignored.
Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy must have had fun making this movie. They have a good supporting cast.
Director Burt Kennedy's "The Good Guys & the Bad Guys" lacks the inspired hilarity of his early outing with James Garner in "Support Your Local Sheriff." Mind you, this glossy, lavishly-produced twentieth century spoof of horse operas boasts its share of moments, but the storyline does an inferior job of blending comedy with drama.
I am often critical about the movies spun out of Hollywood, overblown, ridiculous, far fetched, untrue etc, but one type of film they usually get right are Westerns, after all the Wild West was on the backdoor of Hollywood and deeply woven into American history, so they know exactly how to present one. This is a comedy, not much comedy in the west but the realistic scenes and sets are there, all down to a fine detail.
Westerns were on the way out when The Good Guys and The Bad Guys came out in 1969. This didn't stop director Burt Kennedy from going ahead with a project that mixed comedy with the typical western action-adventure.
The late sixties had many comic westerns after Cat Ballou's success, so this carry on thus walking in this path, the picture has two generation of old west, in fact the picture was took place in turn of the century and two leading roles Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy both already an older men belonged to the past, they are unfashionable couple guys, the progress's winds aren't appreciated to them, easy to watch, plenty of humour, it's worth to see mainly by a funny and drunk old man called Grundy who live in the hills nearby of the town, the unforgetable James W. Fowley who used to play those friendly characters that hates take a shower who prefer living alone in a little cabin, just amazing!!!
I love it when the title of the film keeps it simple - "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys". Can't make it any plainer than that for a Western.
This is a very entertaining Burt Kennedy Western, very much in the mold of "The War Wagon", although it more often crosses the line into straight comedy. I gave it five stars in my IMDb ranking.
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