The Texican

At the end of the movie Broderick Crawford's character is shot and falls from a balcony.

The stuntman who does the fall is obviously and easily one hundred pounds lighter and much thinner than Crawford.

To get some enjoyment from this movie you at least have to like Audie Murphy and be rather uncritical about westerns. I qualify on both counts.

This is a good Audie Murphy western for one reason only; it is a spaghetti western. The writers didn't know Audie Murphy and did not write a western script FOR him.

At forty two, Audie Murphy looked considerably younger in this revenge tale of an outlaw crossing the Mexican border back into Arizona to avenge the murder of his newspaper editor brother. Jess Carlin's (Murphy) criminal past is never elaborated on in the story, so you have to take it on faith that he was a wanted man, at least in the town of Rimrock where most of the action takes place.

A good example of Latino western genre from Spain. Wanted ¨Dead or alive¨ north of the border, Jess Carlin (Audie Murphy) lives safely in Mexico.

This movie wants to be a movie if and when it can. You have two named stars who could pull it off but fail to do so and the Director needs directing himself too.

There really isn't much to get excited about in this film. Cheaply done with an infantile script and bad dubbing, and a typical story of revenge.

Although this movie was made in Europe with a predominately Spanish cast, you can tell this movie was made with stateside distribution in mind.Especially when you have Audie Murphy and Broderick Crawford in the leading roles.

Call me chauvinistic, but I really don't think Europeans ought to be doing westerns. Clint Eastwood being the exception, spaghetti westerns are the place where all good western stars go to end their careers.

It wasn't a right movie to Audie Murphy even on final career, the movie sounds weird on Spain, those specific Spanish villages had some similarity with Mexico, however when Jess Carlin (Audie Murphy) crosses the border toward to Texas, everything changes, the Spanish desert was quite distinct if cross check against Texas territory, meanwhile the casting from there had an usual aspect from European people, Just Murphy and Broderick Crawford weren't enough to put an American trademark, the storyline tawdry, as the previous Murphy's style, the women are pretty, therefore are distinctive ethnicities , they don't fit very well properly speaking, the screenplay don't help neither, anyway as I'm a big fan from the unmatched Audie Murphy, actually stay awkward to say such thing, a minor movie from my hero!!!Resume:First watch: 2012 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.