I don't know about you, but the thought of a Jimmy Stewart movie where he is the new owner of a brothel just seems wrong. Would Elwood P. Dowd or Mr. Smith do this? Certainly not.
It's sad, but in the late 60s and early 70s, there a string of "modern" westerns that featured amoral leads--Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, among others, made them. Now it was nice to see movies that tried to be different, but these westerns generally weren't very good. And, it was very hard to really care about the movies as there no heroes and no sense of right or wrong--or at least a rather warped sense of right or wrong.
While this movie isn't bad, it wasn't terribly good and was full of clichés--especially the "hooker with a heart of gold" cliché. Just once, I'd like to see a movie where a prostitute is a selfish alcoholic or has an STD.
The film has decent writing and the dialog between Fonda and Stewart is good. The movie itself is pretty predictable and forgettable.
It's sad, but in the late 60s and early 70s, there a string of "modern" westerns that featured amoral leads--Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, among others, made them. Now it was nice to see movies that tried to be different, but these westerns generally weren't very good. And, it was very hard to really care about the movies as there no heroes and no sense of right or wrong--or at least a rather warped sense of right or wrong.
While this movie isn't bad, it wasn't terribly good and was full of clichés--especially the "hooker with a heart of gold" cliché. Just once, I'd like to see a movie where a prostitute is a selfish alcoholic or has an STD.
The film has decent writing and the dialog between Fonda and Stewart is good. The movie itself is pretty predictable and forgettable.