In the scene where Brennan kills Billy Jack, it's daytime outside when Brennan tells him to go into the "room" to look at Doretta.
When you see him enter, it appears to be dark out.
Then, when Brennan and Doretta leave, it's suddenly daytime again.
After Brennan kills Chink and rolls his body over, Chink moves his feet together and raises them up to make it easier for Brennan to put rope around his ankles.
As Brennan rides into town, after the meeting with the station keeper and his son, he passes the stage, which is standing in the street.
Behind the stage, in the street behind, there is a parked car.
In the hideout is a fireplace with a highway torch burning in it.
Commonly known as smudge pots, these round oil burners warned drivers of caution ahead.
Patented in 1927 and commonly seen on roadways in the 1950s, this one somehow did a time warp back to the 1880's.
Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers fall into the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man named Usher.
Pat Brennan loses his horse in a bet and is forced to hit the trail on foot. Thinking his luck has turned, he manages to hitch a ride on a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, the Mims'.
Can't recommend this movie, although it starts out pleasantly, with some fun horsing around and conversations. Richard Boone does make a forceful, charismatic, if none too smart, leader of his little bandit gang of 3.
None of the bad guys have distinction ... same old black hats..
This had both an excellent cast and was exciting from start to finish. I was curious about it when I saw it at #55 in my highly recommended copy of 'The Editors of American Cowboy Magazine's The Top 100 Western Movies of All Time'.
Losing his horse in a bet at "The Tall T" ranch, grizzled cowboy Randolph Scott (as Patrick "Pat" Brennan) hitches a ride on the trail with coach driver Arthur Hunnicutt (as Ed Rintoon). Inside the coach are newlywed heiress Maureen O'Sullivan (as Doretta) and her cowardly husband John Hubbard (as Willard Mims).
I think this to be one of the best Westerns I have ever seen. Being a "director" at heart, there are three scenes I would change to make it perfect.
A masterpiece and one of the greatest of all westerns, this is the best of a series of quintessential movies that Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher made together. All were B-Movies, clocking in at around the 80 minute mark and making the most of a small cast and straightforward story-lines.
Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott), un recto y duro cowboy que ha perdido su caballo en una apuesta (buenas escenas con cabalgadura de un toro por medio) es recogido, cuando iba a pie dirección a su rancho, por un coche de caballos en el que viaja una rica heredera (Maureen O'Sullivan, ya saben, la Jane de Tarzan) recién casada con un trepa cazafortunas (Arthur Hunnicutt), para poco más adelante del camino ser asaltados por 3 crueles facinerosos, que los secuestran con la intención de cobrar un rescate por la recién casada, al ser cobardemente informados por su marido, con la intención de salvar la vida, de la identidad de su esposa.Segundo de los 7 western de serie B rodados entre 1956 y 1960 con el especialista en el género, Budd Boetticher en la dirección y Randolph Scott como protagonista, en el que como no podía ser menos estando el también fiable director Burt Kennedy detrás del guión que adapta la primera historia adaptada a la gran pantalla del maestro Elmore Leonard (le seguiría ese mismo año la reflejada en la excelente "El tren de las 3:10", y toda una pléyade de joyitas – siempre entretenidas y vacilonas - por el medio, hasta la reciente serie de TV, "Justified") resulta toda una muy entretenida y absorbente función en el que con tan solo áridos paisajes envolviendo la fuerte carga psicológica de los personajes, logra mantenerte atento durante su corto metraje (apenas hora y cuarto) a la pantalla siguiendo el enfrentamiento Leonardiano de esos 2 tipos en el fondo tan semejantes como son el honesto y duro cowboy y el resabiado villano (Richard Boone).
